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With a production value totalling $400 million from placer and hardrock operations, 1987 can only be described as an outstanding year for the Yukon Territories. Riding on a wave of flow-through share …

An option has been acquired by Lake Ponask Gold which gives the company the right to earn a 50% interest in a property in Jamaica. Known as the Hope mine property, the ground was mined for lead in the…

Described by some as the most significant gold find in the Yukon in many years, the Grew Creek discovery of Noranda Exploration and Golden Nevada Resources appears to be getting bigger. The latest res…

A complicated legal dispute over the ownership of a valuable gold mine can make valuation judgments on the companies concerned a difficult business. But when the legal battle is inadvertantly combined…

A well-financed tse listing which is currently developing a gold deposit in Ontario’s Hislop area, Goldpost Resources has now acquired a long-term lease on a former gold producing property in Idaho. T…

O A Montreal doctor has scored what may be regarded in mineralogy circles as one of this century’s major coups. After obtaining an option to buy one of the world’s finest privately-owned mineral colle…

Underground diamond drilling by Northair Mines at its Willa property in southeastern British Columbia is continuing to obtain good gold values, President Donald A. McLeod reports. Hole 87-312 was dril…

Some of the best results to date, are coming from underground exploration work on the Magnacon gold property held by Muscocho Explorations (25%), Flanagan McAdam Resources (50%) and Windarra Minerals …

As a member of an investment group which owns shares in Consolidated Trans Columbia Industries Ltd., I would like to know what has happened to this formerly Vancouver-listed company. A couple of yea…

A $3.2-million flow-through financing has been completed by Vista Mines which will fund exploration work on the company’s Bootleg Lake property near Flin Flon, Man. A decline ramp on the Rio gold depo…

Problems with completion of a filter press in the mill have delayed concentrate shipments from Eastmaque Gold Mines’ Kirkland Lake tailings project in Ontario. The company started processing gold mine…

Tendencies outlined five years ago in a study on scrap and the steel industry have materialized at a faster rate than expected, says the International Iron and Steel Institute. The institute recently …