For the third time in as many years, the annual average New York (Handy & Harman) price for silver in 1990, at US$4.82 per oz., was lower than for the previous year, the Silver Users Association of Wa…
Several recent developments well illustrate the true value of exploration to the junior mining sector. Early in January, Queenston Mining and Strike Minerals announced the discovery of a new massive s…
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has launched a $5-million fund-raising campaign to develop a new earth sciences gallery. Intended to replace the ROM’s old geology and mineral galleries, closed 10 years…
In less than three years since its humble beginnings as a one property, private company, Major General Resources (VSE) is now one of the largest property owners in B.C’s promising Omineca porphyry cop…
Golden Arrow Resources Inc. (GAW:VSE) and Yellow Band Resources Inc. (YBD:VSE) have amalgamated with Commonwealth Gold Corp. (CWC:VSE). Shareholders of Commonwealth common shares will be entitled to o…
The communities of Atikokan, Manitouwadge and the Beardmore-Geraldton-Longlac-Nakina area have recently been designated under the Ontario Mineral Incentives Program (OMIP) special community component….
Low zinc prices and the closure of Breakwater Resources’ (TSE) Caribou lead-zinc mine in New Brunswick have taken a heavy toll on the Vancouver company’s 1990 financial results. After announcing a $64…
Out of the news lately but still busy, the partnership of Aur Resources (TSE) and Societe Miniere Louvem (TSE) is moving fast toward the critical development stage at its Louvicourt Twp. base metal jo…
“The best place to look for a new mine is near one,” is a tried and true exiom of the business. And by the same token, new ore deposits are frequently discovered close by known ones. Indeed the histor…
Noranda Exploration, a unit of Noranda (TSE), has moved five rigs on to the Lynne property, about one hour’s drive from this tourist town, in an attempt to delineate the deposit before spring breakup….
After completing a 5-hole drill program, Cameco has dropped its option on a gold property owned by Golden Marlin Resources (VSE) near Yellowknife, N.W.T. Cameco had the right to earn a 51% interest in…
One of the new juniors growing by leaps and bounds is Great Lakes Minerals (TSE). Listed last July, the company already has three promising copper properties in the Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Mich…
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