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As Breakwater Resources (TSE) prepared this week to become owner as well as manager of the Caribou lead/zinc mine 50 km west of here, work crews were getting to grips with many of the problems experie…

A private placement of $1.05 million will give Dolly Varden Minerals (VSE) the funds it needs for 50,000 ft. of diamond drilling on the company’s Kitsault Valley, Stewart area property. The placement …

Wkay Resources (WKA:VSE) has changed its transfer agent to Montreal Trust Co.

A former coal miner regarded by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest man recently died in Wales at the age of 112. John Evans, whose birth certificate recorded an Aug. 19, 1877, birth da…

Eureka Resources Inc. (EUR: VSE) and Hawthorne Gold Corp. (HGD:VSE) have amalgamated under Eureka Resources Inc. (EUR:VSE) on the following basis: Eureka’s shareholders will receive one new for one ol…

Gold Star Resources Ltd. (GLA:VSE) has changed its name to E.E.C. Marketing Corp. (EMC:VSE) on a 1-new-for-3-old- share basis. Transfer agent is Montreal Trust.

A rights offering by Explorations Minieres du Nord (ME) which would have raised up to $747,000 was turned down by the Montreal Exchange. The company says it is studying alternate financing means, incl…

Robert Cudney appointed president and chief executive officer; Thomas Pladsen appointed treasurer and chief financial officer; Bruce Taylor appointed to the board.

Clemence Mallet appointed to the Board of Directors succeeding Alex Ritchie who resigned.

Gillespie Robertson appointed senior vice-president, minerals marketing and services succeeding Charles McArthur who will retire June 30. Robertson will relocate to San Francisco.

Steven Potter appointed president; Richard Graeme appointed vice- president Operations and Robert Schafer appointed vice-president Operations.

John Likarish appointed manager of Hillsboro, Ill., zinc oxide plant.