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Bench-scale metallurgical test work on various ore types from City Resources’ Cinola gold deposit in the Queen Charlotte Islands yielded a recovery rate greater than 90, says the company. The test pro…

Preliminary results have been obtained by Morono Mines from 37 holes drilled over three gold- bearing zones on the Verneuil Twp. property located northeast of Senneterre in northern Quebec. The compan…

Silver may struggle to hold $8(US) per oz for much of the summer before an improvement during and after the autumn, with the price for 1987 realistically averaging $7.50, Shearson Lehman Brothers repo…

There has been quite a turnaround in the affairs of Canreos Minerals. Under strong new management that has moved this company from the brink of insolvency into a healthy financial position, it is now…

A deal between Canacord Resources and a wholly-owned subsidiary, Exador Resources, will see Canacord transfer its rights under several property agreements to Exador in return for common shares and war…

We have recently been informed that the federal department of Energy, Mines and Resources is planning to disband Peter Hood’s magnetic survey research group. As a company engaged in mineral exploratio…

Gold miners in the nation’s biggest gold camp might be mining some pretty lean ore over the next 2-3 years. Instead of mining ore that averages no less than 0.065 oz gold per ton, as they do today, mi…

Metalore Resources’ Gold Discovery, formerly known as the Brookbank occurrence, is in northern Ontario on an all-weather road about eight miles northeast of the town of Beardmore. Mineralization occur…

Many of Canada’s mills are small and old. With workforces of only two or three operators, there would be very little advantage in reducing operating costs through automation. So it seems safe to say t…

The world’s largest producer of tungsten ore, Canada Tungsten Mining Corp., has turned out a software program, as yet unnamed, to help run its worldwide operations and affiliates. CanTung is part of t…

With 300 men now engaged, and 50 or 60 more to be added, the Sherritt Gordon mine again becomes an important factor in the mining industry of the country. This property, out of production for five yea…

Denison Mines of Toronto has found itself in a happy situation thanks to some new technology. An efficient extraction method called solvent extraction and a revolution in solid-state physics could boo…