Calling himself an “eternal optimist,” Westar Mining President Peter Dolezal is confident the coal company’s problems will be turned around. The problems, he says, are threefold. Coal prices are too l…
Recent press reports have wrongly portrayed Cominco’s large zinc-lead-fertilizer complex at Trail as a threat to employment in Montana and Idaho (N.M., Feb 1/88). The reverse is true. Cominco’s smelte…
Montreal junior Freewest Resources has struck a deal with an Australian mining firm. A subsidiary of “down under” company Ashton Mining has acquired an option from Freewest to earn a 65% interest in t…
Two junior Nova Scotia gold explorers are planning a big Maritime wedding.Presidents Gerald McConnell, a Halifax lawyer, and geologist Dr William Young of Toronto, have agreed to amalgamate their tw…
Two additional holes drilled in the vicinity of hole 87-15 have confirmed the down-dip extension of a gold-bearing zone discovered at the Jolin property in Carpentier Twp., 55 km northeast of Val d’Or…
Plans to merge First Toronto Capital and Westray Mining have been announced, with the president of Pamour Inc., Clifford Frame, to become the new company’s chairman. First Toronto is a merchant bankin…
Vancouver stock promoter Murray Pezim has told The Northern Miner that his merchant bank, Prime Capital, may be interested in acquiring Pioneer Metals. Such a move could facilitate an attempt by Pione…
I enjoyed the article on Arthur Fecteau in the Feb 1 issue of The Northern Miner. It was accurate and revealing. I flew extensively with various air transport companies out of Rouyn, Senneterre and th…
Win-Eldrich Mines has completed a preliminary feasibility study on its Ashdown gold property in Nevada and plans to start a 5,000-ft reverse circulation drilling program before the end of February. Re…
The first quarter is generally slow in Vancouver and this year is no exception. Weaker gold prices have compounded the situation further, but even at these levels producers can still make a tidy profi…
Quebec mining group Vior- Mazarin and Les Affaires newspaper have organized a competition for geology students in Quebec studying at the university level. Students, working with an imaginary budget of…
Two drills are this week probing a new high grade gold zone discovered by Gordex Minerals on the company’s Cape Spencer property northeast of Saint John, N.B., according to President Hal Pawson. The z…
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