Direct assistance to prospectors through British Columbia’s Financial Assistance for Mineral Exploration (fame) program have been doubled this year. Grants up to $5,000 are now available to qualified …
Freewest Resources has acquired an option on claims held by Noranda Exploration in the Harker- Holloway area north of Kirkland Lake, Ont. Freewest has the right to earn a 32% interest in the Noranda c…
VANCOUVER — Being “first in the door” has its advantages, according to the president of Pioneer Metals, Robert D Willis. Nine months ago his company approached British Silbak Premier Mines about part…
M.A. Hanna Co. — M. Jan van Veelen appointed director of European iron ore sales; Edward G. Jaicks named manager North American iron ore sales.
Construction work has started on the Ketza River project of Canamax Resources and Pacific Trans Ocean Resources. Camp facilities are being installed, clearing of the mill site is under way, and road a…
Energy International Overseas Corp. has now acquired 16 contiguous claims in the Timmins area adjoining Falconbridge’s Hoyle Pond and Owl Creek gold mines on the north, Geo. S. White, president, advis…
Toronto-based NSR Resources has obtained regulatory and shareholder approval to finance about half of a $4.4-million exploration program at the Rand Malartic property in Quebec. The balance of the fun…
There’s been a lot of potential buyer interest since it was reported that Falconbridge Ltd. was considering selling off its Owl Creek and Hoyle Pond gold mines at Timmins, Ont., according to Falconbri…
As anticipated, Northair Mines successfully defended a hostile takeover bid by Nanaimo-based Nor-Quest Resources. At the annual meeting a relieved Northair President Donald A. McLeod announced almost …
Construction of a 14-km all- weather commuter road, linking two new mine sites in the Goudreau-Lochalsh area near Wawa, Ont., is scheduled to begin later this year. While construction rests on the res…
Noranda Exploration continues to be active in the Atlantic provinces. On its Tally Pond-Duck Pond project in central Newfoundland the company has intersected significant precious and base metal values…
Turning a supertanker around in a narrow channel is tricky business. Sometimes you have to come to a full halt to change direction, an analogy that probably applied to Cominco before it was taken over…
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