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Better earnings help Brunswick reduce losses

An improved fourth quarter allowed Brunswick Mining and Smelting to cut its 1986 loss to $6.9 million, compared with a loss of $5.6 million in 1985. Net earnings during the last quarter of 1986 were $…


EXPLORATION ’87 HUGHES-LANG

The fast-moving, gold-oriented Hughes-Lang Group of Companies kept its corporate growth- through-gold strategy well in place during 1986. The schedule for exploration and anticipated production in 198…


Letters to the Editor CANMET gearing for the future

I read with interest your recent editorial on the changing times and the role that the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology, (CANMET), must play in the future. I thought I would write to le…


Metals stage comeback for Cominco Ltd. in 1986

The mining and integrated metals sectors of Cominco Ltd. posted a dramatic turnaround in 1986 but the results were largely offset by continuing weakness in its fertilizers division. Ironically that di…


EXPLORATION ’87 SHERRITT

Sherritt Gordon Mines and its subsidiary, Sherrgold Inc., will be continuing their exploration efforts in northern Manitoba around Lynn Lake and northwestern Ontario, including projects near Red Lake,…


EXPLORATION ’87 ELDOR

Eldor Resources will continue to concentrate its search for uranium in 1987 on lands adjacent to the Rabbit Lake and Key Lake mills in northern Saskatchewan, says David Fountain, general manager explo…


EXPLORATION ’87 GRANGES EXPLORATION

Granges has eight exploration projects on the go. On the east coast the company is doing grassroots work in a new, 2-sq-mi area called the Murphy option, which is tied to a major claim block of Norand…



EXPLORATION ’87 LACANA

This will be one of the busiest exploration years in recent memory for Lacana Mining Corp.’s staff in Canada. About 36 projects, emphasizing precious metals exploration, are planned across Canada. Lac…


50 YEARS AGO –MARCH, 1937– ELDORADO OUTPUT

Eldorado shareholders, who will probably meet before the end of March, are due for some pleasant surprises, The Northern Miner can say after interviewing officials who have returned from the property …


Future of Quintette Coal in hands of its partners

The huge Quintette coal project in northeastern B.C. “can be scuttled by all partners in it, but mainly by the Japanese steel industry and the banks,” Stephen B. Roman, chairman of Denison Mines Ltd. …


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