Glimmer of hope for gold
Gold is likely to be the best performing metal on a relative basis during 1993, delegates to the recent Western Gold Show here were told. David Williamson, an independent metals industry consultant, w…
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Soquem joins Nor. Abitibi, Vior in Douay venture
An agreement allowing Soquem to earn 50% of the rights of Societe d’Exploration Miniere Vior (ME) in the Douay property option of Northern Abitibi Mining (ASE) in Quebec’s Casa Berardi region has been…
Calgary firm to study coal mining practices
Calgary-based Associated Mining Consultants (AMCL) has been awarded a contract through Canadian Commercial Corp. for a preparatory study of coal mining practices and the reclamation of coal-mined land…
COMMENTARY — Banking on the mining industry
Major Canadian banks have had a long tradition of financing mine development to commercial production in Canada. The banks’ interest gained momentum in the 1950s with the development of Canada’s urani…
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — Industry creates real wealth
Having worked as a miner, and later as a prospector for myself and for companies, I am dismayed at the devastation in Canada’s mining industry today. I hear governments saying, “Let’s try to get away …
B.C. safety report sets standards
A report on mine safety standards prepared by Ralph McGinn, British Columbia’s chief mines inspector, was recently endorsed by the International Labor Organization’s governing body. McGinn is now expa…
Allegheny plans work program
Exploration is scheduled to begin on Allegheny Mines’ (ASE) 47-claim Atiko-Sapawe Gold Mines property, 20 miles east of Atikokan, Ont., in 1993. Working with a new structural interpretation of the pro…
Mining booster Mort Brown retiring
For a person whose burning ambition after high school was to forge a career in forestry, M.R. (Mort) Brown has done well for himself — in mining. At 80, The Northern Miner’s soon-to-retire publisher …
Retirement party set for Jan. 21
Friends and associates of M.R. (Mort) Brown will honor the retiree at a party Jan. 21, 1993, at the Ontario Club and Engineers’ Club (recently merged), fifth floor, Commerce Court South, downtown Toro…
ON THE LEVEL — Carrying aboriginals costly
For a government teetering on bankruptcy, Ottawa keeps right on spending like a drunken sailor. And I’m not referring to that asinine squandering of $4.3 billion for 50 of the world’s most sophisticat…
Russian conference invites papers
Organizers of an international symposium on complex ores utilization, which will be held in Saint Petersburg May 10-20, 1994, are inviting submissions of papers. Topics include ore dressing, hydrometa…
Teck subsidiary buys Balmer mine
A wholly owned subsidiary of Teck (TSE), Elkview Coal Corp., has completed the purchase of the Balmer coal mine in the Elk River Valley of southern British Columbia. The purchase price includes a cash…