Alberta Stock Exchange Biron Bay up 30 cents
A recent progress report by Biron Bay Resources on its 60% owned Summit gold project in New Mexico has led to a 30 cents gain in that company’s share price. Biron traded 109,100 shares to close at $1….
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Safety must be a priority for exploration industry
In the fall of last year, the prospecting industry in Ontario received notice from the Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) that its assessment rates for 1990 would be raised by a staggering 15%. The inc…
Crown optimistic about Pinon based on results from 18 holes
Results from the first 18 holes of a 30-hole program on the Pinon Range project have owner Crown Resources (VSE) optimistic about the property’s potential. Significant results from the program are lis…
Thompson – The other INCO
Inco Ltd. is spending heavily to secure its future in Thompson, Man. In addition to the C$108 million already committed to the 1-C orebody at the main Thompson mine, Birchtree reactivation and the Tho…
Calendar (December 07, 1990)
Jan 7-11, Reno, Nev. Short Course on Hydrothermal Alterations. Contact Mining, Division of Continuing Education MS 048, University of Nevada, Reno, Nev. 89557-0024. Phone (702) 784-4046. Jan 8-12, Ren…
Our Man At Thompson
Generally, little is heard of that other Inco — the nickel operations 400 air miles north of civilization and known as Thompson, Man. When it was announced in December, 1956 in The Northern Miner new…
Cross-Cuts (December 07, 1990)
HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE Ontario Mining Association Chairman Andy Rickaby, addressing a lunchtime crowd in downtown Toronto to kick off Ontario Mining Week (in mid-October), points out the uses to whic…
50 years ago – December, 1940
DEMAND FULLY MET Robert Stanley, president of International Nickel Co. of Canada, reports that all war and ordinary demands are being fully supplied. He adds that none of the company’s products is bei…
Letters (December 07, 1990)
HOYLE POND’S GENESIS In the september, 1990 issue of the Northern Miner Magazine, the article entitled “Falco’s Golden Egg” refers to the Hoyle Pond discovery and states: “Gold was discovered in 1976 …
The uniqueness of Eskay
Like the Hemlo gold deposits in Ontario, the Eskay Creek polymetallic deposits will be discussed by geologists for decades. Eskay Creek is a unique discovery, from both an academic and an economic poi…
Checking it twice
The computer was to have eliminated most of the memos, missives and managerial decrees that circulate within departments, between departments and from head office to the operating mine. The computer d…
Supplier’s notes
Scintrex Ltd. of Concord, Ont. has been awarded C$2.7 million in contracts by Romenergo, Romania’s second Canadian deuterium uranium (CANDU) reactor. Scintrex supplied simlar equipment for Romania’s f…