MANAGING Time for a vacation
We all need it, although some need it more than others. Our families and friends become closer to us through it. Our co-workers grow when we take it. Our businesses benefit from it. What is this magic…
News
CORE SHACK Epigenetic gold in Val D’Or
The Kierens Zone is an epigenetic gold deposit on Aur Resources’ First Canadian property, 10 miles west of Val d’Or, Que. Based on surface drilling results, the deposit is estimated to contain drill-i…
ORE HORIZONS The Metalore gold discovery What stalled development?
The gold discovery by Metalore Resources not only sparked a staking rush into the Beardmore area of Ontario, but a stock market play as well. Announced by The Northern Miner in March, 1986, the news o…
SUPPLIERS’ NOTES (July 01, 1987)
SEW-Eurodrive Co. of Canada, based in Bramalea, Ont., has opened its third Canadian plant, in Lasalle, Que. The new facility offers the Quebec mining industry its choice of more than two million diffe…
EDITOR’S NOTE More than gold
To the east and to the west, gold is revitalizing a moribund Canadian mining industry. In Nova Scotia earlier this year, Seabright Resources produced a gold bar from development muck at its Forest Hil…
LAW Fees and negligence
Most agreements that contemplate a party acting as an operator to carry out exploration or other mining work financed by several parties permit the operator to charge against the project some of the o…
LETTERS B.C. supports mining industry
Your recent article “Where to Explore” (March issue) claimed that British Columbia was among the least supportive of the provinces when it comes to assisting mineral development. Nothing could be fart…
Tax Angles The 1987 Tax Reform a quagmire for investors
Last week, the Minister of Finance, Michael Wilson tabled the government’s long-awaited proposals for tax reform. In general terms, the proposals call for a broadening of the income tax base for both …
Report from Australia Gold at forefront of market boom
Most of the news emerging from the Australian mining industry has been sufficiently promising to keep an overheated stock market on the boil. Gold issues have been at the forefront of speculative inte…
Geodome on TSE
Recently accepted for listing on the tse was Geodome Resources, which has completed a final feasibility study for its Sunbeam mine in Idaho. President Herman Whiton Jr. reports the feasibility study e…
Judge’s death could complicate Lac-Corona suit
The death on June 19 of Mr Justice Bert James MacKinnon, Associate Chief Justice of Ontario, could complicate the already intricate Lac Minerals, International Corona lawsuit. Judge MacKinnon, who die…
Viceroy encouraged by Calif. drilling
Drilling results continue to be encouraging at Viceroy Resource Corp.’s Castle Mountain property in California. Step- out drilling on the west side of the Oro Belle deposit yielded some impressive dri…