Alberta Stock Exchange Louisiana eyes copper
A copper project in New Mexico near the town of Silver City has caught the attention of Louisiana Mining. The junior has entered into a letter of intent with an individual to acquire a 51% interest in…
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Encouraging zinc/copper values reported at Greenstone project
Partners Greenstone Resources (TSE) and Dragoon Resources (VSE) say they are getting indications that a large base metal deposit could exist within the boundaries of their jointly held McNeil property…
Metal Prices (May 07, 1990)
FREE MARKET London Metal Exchange Spot closing prices in $US per tonne, except copper and lead (pounds sterling per tonne) Date May 1 Apr. 30 Apr. 27 Apr. 26 Apr. 25 Copper 1755-1760 1578-1579 1624.50…
Mercur mine lawsuit postponed until fall
The Mercur mine lawsuit involving American Barrick Resources (TSE) and Utah exploration company Gold Standard (NASDAQ) probably won’t be tried until later this year. Originally scheduled to begin Apri…
Goldbank gold assays
Anomalous surface assay results have been reported by Goldbank Ventures (ASE) from the Hayes gold showing on the company’s 100% owned Bon property on Vancouver Island, about 15 miles northwest of Nana…
THIS LAND IS WHOSE LAND?: There is no easy solution to the problem
It wasn’t the type of crowd Monte Hummel was used to addressing. Gamely, the president of the World Wildlife Fund stood before the annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Ca…
Rx FOR IMPROVEMENTS
The following is an excerpt from the plenary session paper presented at the recent maintenance engineering conference held in Sudbury, Ont. The conference was sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Mi…
WHAT’S NEW: FERROMAGNETIC MONITOR
A Compact PLC Idec Canada is marketing a compact programmable “logic controller” (PLC) manufactured in Japan. The units, ideal for replacing relay and timer circuits, are being distributed in Canada b…
HIGH-TECH OPERATIONS — THE MANLESS MILL
Distributed control systems (DCS) were introduced in the mid-1970s, according to Isabelle Clauzier and Burton Roberts of B.R.I.C. Systems Integrators, who delivered a paper on the subject at an operat…
NATIVE TALENTS
I read, with great interest and some dismay the article “Native Miners” by Erik Watt (NMM, Feb/90), which dealt with the involvement of native persons in northern mine operations. I feel their natural…
FREE TRADE OPTIMISM
FREE TRADE OPTIMISM The following is from a speech delivered to the Mineral Development Forum in early December last year in Toronto by Maureen Farrow, a partner of the Coopers & Lybrand Consulting Gr…
RUNNING ON EMPTY
Not long ago, the larger Canadian gold mining companies were content to report two to three year’s worth of reserves at their individual mines. The practice, I was recently told by a mining veteran, b…