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Only a few years ago, mine closures in Ontario were uncomplicated and inexpensive. Sell the grinding mills and pumps, salvage the mill buildings and haul up the scoops and jumbos and auction them off…

Open pit mine operators in British Columbia have fine-tuned their cost-cutting skills to an art. Faced with soft metal prices and rising costs, they survive and prosper by their wits as much as by th…

1. A baseline environmental description should be prepared upon which to measure development impact, reclamation effectiveness and over-all success in meeting reclamation objectives. 2. An inventory…

After the lavish banquet of the flow-through years (a memory now, nothing more), Canada’s diamond drillers are eking out an existence on crumbs and scraps. It doesn’t make for a healthy industry. “It…

The removal of dissolved metals in wetlands (land in which the soil is saturated) may be mediated through a variety of processes, including direct uptake by plants, ion exchange or adsorption on clays…

Before acid mine drainage emerged as the gravest effect of tailings deposits, pockets of the north were afflicted by tailings dust storms. Come a dry spell, a good blow sent up clouds of choking grit…

You’re in select company if you work at a British Columbia mine or mill. And you can count on becoming more select as time wears on. The province has 22 operating mines. Ten are threatened by deple…

The Brenda mine in B.C. was poor in terms of grade – 0.17% Cu and 0.04% Mo. But such poverty spurred Brenda’s technical people to introduce a wealth of technological innovations. Process technology …

CCF PLEDGES TO TAX WEALTHY The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) has considerable prominence as well as third place in the House of Commons. The bit cry of this party, during the war particu…

Musto Explorations Ltd. (MUX:VSE) has changed its name to International Musto Explorations Ltd. (IMZ:VSE) with a consolidation of capital on a 1-new-for-20-old-share basis. The transfer agent is Centr…

International Brace Res Inc. – 900,000 units consisting of 1 sh and 2 wts offered @ 54 cents per unit. DRT Res. Ltd. – 1,000,000 shs offered @ 16 cents per sh. Vananda Gold Ltd – 300,000 shs offered @…

BGR Central Net Value $8.15 $5.09 Price $6.75 $4.65 Discount 17.14% 8.60% Value $48,503,000 $78,232,995…