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More than 350 people from all sectors of the mining industry were recipients of red carpet treatment offered by residents of this northern Quebec community last week. The event was the second annual m…

presented its Peacock Memorial Prize for 1986 to Michael Jones (left), an M.Sc. student at the department of earth sciences, University of Waterloo, Ont., in recognition of his work on late-stage seco…

I am a long-term subscriber who depends on the stock exchange tables in The Northern Miner. I am somewhat distressed that the Vancouver Stock Exchange list in The Miner still (as of May 25) does not i…

There could be some sort of poetic justice for the mining industry in a report that sharks are busy eating fibre-optic transmission cables at the bottom of the sea. Indeed we wonder if the industry,…

The decision by Cassiar Mining to either develop its McDame asbestos deposit or terminate operations completely by mid-1991 will have to be made this year. James C. O’Rourke, president, also told the …

A feasibility report has been approved by the board of directors of Silver Hart Mines for a silver property in the Yukon and the development go-ahead has been given subject to a suitable financing arr…

While Noranda Inc.’s Gaspe Copper Mines has decided to suspend mining operations completely at its Murdochville, Que., mine site, the company and the Quebec government continue discussions regarding a…

The use of platinum in autocatalysts increased about 15% in 1986, representing 37% of western world demand for the metal, Johnson Matthey reports in its research publication Platinum 1987. More than o…

Their 50% interest in a Red Lake, Ont. gold property has been sold by The Coniagas Mines, and Phoenix Gold Mines, to McFinley Red Lake Mines for $5 million in cash, the two companies report. In additi…

In the first quarter, the South Dakota gold properties of Wharf Resources operated at record levels, says its chairman, Alan Farmer. During the winter period some 4,356 oz of gold was recovered by tre…

A month-long strike, which ended June 1, has taken a 6-7,000-oz bite out of Northgate Explorations’ projected gold output for 1987. But it has also added $1.21 to the pay cheques of about 500 hourly p…

An executive of an Australian company which claims to have discovered a process which will significantly improve gold recoveries from calcine dumps, will be in Canada early next month intending to ide…