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When the managers of Seabright Resources sit down for lunch together, be it at one of the company’s exploration camps or in a restaurant in Sheet Harbour, N.S., the conversation usually touches on how…

Sen. Arthur Sauve (Rigaud, Conservative) has given notice in the Upper House that he would move a resolution for the establishment of a many-sided Canadian m ining policy aimed at, among other things,…

A readership survey recently conducted by our editorial staff gave us some very important indications about what you want from The Northern Miner Magazine. Whil e those of you who replied to the surve…

Heap leach gold operations are usually associated with the western United States, particularly with Nevada and California, but on the eastern seaboard of Canada there exists a small mine which is the …

It’s official. The Detour Lake gold mine northeast of Timmins, Ont., will go into underground production, with full production at the rate of 2,000 tons per day expected to be achieved by mid-1988. Th…

Coats-listed Delbridge Mines has raised $350,000 for exploration work on the former-producing DeSantis gold property southwest of Timmins. A stripping and trenching program is under way with bulk samp…

Mono Gold Mines says its consultant has estimated mining and milling costs of $65 per ton for ore on its Bannockburn property near Madoc, Ont. However, a production decision is not assured. The compan…

After being out of the gold exploration business for nearly seven years, Denison Mines is jumping back in with both feet. And the company is taking aim at the original Gold Coast, specifically the Rep…

A number of 1986 mining flow- through share vehicles were structured so that the shares will be listed on a Canadian exchange and the actual shares delivered to the investors in January or February, 1…

Canadian courts move in mysterious ways their wonders to perform. In general, the court decisions we’re familiar with seem to display a good deal of common sense. Given the facts as we know them and…

Indusmin, the industrial mineral division of Falconbridge Ltd., is building a $2.5-million crusher station in St. Canut, Que., to improve the company’s position in the silica market in that province. …

The Vancouver market hasn’t been able to match the gains posted on New York and Toronto, but not many others have either. Brokerage month-end, about a week ago, has put downward pressure on prices, bu…