Analysts see flat year for gold, silver
It wasn’t exactly a stellar year in 1990 for the precious metals’ industry and if analysts are correct, 1991 isn’t going to be much better. At least not for gold and silver. Last year, high interest r…
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Vancouver Stock Exchange Asiatel benefits from Link option
The Vancouver market indices remained relatively quiet during the report period ended Jan. 8, with little news to help spur activity. The composite index remained virtually unchanged at the 627-level …
TSE 300 to list Bema Gold, drop Canamax and Belmoral
Having recently completed an annual review of trading activity on the composite 300 index, The Toronto Stock Exchange is dropping six mining issues from the index and adding one. To disappear from the…
600 gather as Hall of Fame inducts 9 mining legends
The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame awards ceremony, the industry’s annual tribute to its most distinguished citizens, just keeps on getting bigger. At the recent third annual dinner function at Toronto’…
Valuation methods to be outlined at CIM symposium
Valuation of mineral deposits and companies will be the subject of the Canadian Insitute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum’s sixth mineral economics symposium Jan. 17 at Toronto’s Sheraton Centre. S…
Canadian Mining Hall of Fame – Inductee JOHN C. MacISAAC, 1906-1991
Minefinders get the glory, but the minebuilders get the ore. For 65 years, while others discovered and financed the deposits, John C. MacIsaac applied his energies to breaking the first rock, sinking …
COATS (over-the-counter) OSC sheds COATS
The market is in such bad shape that it doesn’t matter who’s running it, remarked one over-the- counter broker when asked to comment on the TSE’s recent decision to take over COATS. It remains to be s…
Canadian Mining Hall of Fame – Inductee JOHN E. HAMMELL, 1876-1958
It was John E. Hammell’s ambition to “crack open the north,” and he did that through his pioneering use of aircraft. Hammell’s perseverance led to the eventual development of the Flin Flon operations …
Canadian Mining Hall of Fame – Inductee RANDOLPHE WILLIAM DIAMOND,
During the years 1917-1920, Randolphe William Diamond developed a new process for ore separation known as differential froth flotation that unlocked the treasures of the Sullivan zinc-lead-iron sulphi…
Montreal Exchange TVX given boost
Trading during the first days of the new year was off to an inauspicious start, with the general market portfolio index slipping by more than 21 points for the week ended Jan. 8. The mining and minera…
Financing near for Castle Mt.
Financing for the construction of the Castle Mountain heap leach gold mine in San Bernardino Cty., Calif., is near at hand for Viceroy Resources (TSE). The company secured a credit facility with N.M. …
Prepare or Beware: The Environmental Audit
n this year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one, 1984 may have truly arrived. Big Brother administers to the resources industry through environmental legislation and bureaucracy. In m…