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I refer to your recent editorial Russians learn from us, concerning publication in that country of a Canadian book on mine management. As the U.S.S.R. marketing manager for a Canadian-based manufactur…

Remember Valery Giscard d’Estaing? You’re not alone if the name only vaguely conjures up images of an aloof, patrician French politician from an age long past, an age when Bjorn Borg ruled the tennis …

British Columbia’s minister of energy, mines and petroleum resources, Jack Davis, has responded to public concerns regarding the government’s decision to permit British Columbia’s uranium moratorium t…

A $150,000 diamond drilling program to test geophysical anomalies for their precious metal potential is under way by First General Mining Management and Gold Corp. in Stover Twp., Ont. The exploration…

BGR Precious Metals says its net asset value on Oct 31, 1986, was $11.81, a 33% increase from a year earlier and a 19% increase from three months earlier. On Oct 31 there were 6,156,968 Class A shares…

There can be little doubt that flow-through financing has facilitated the discovery of several significant gold deposits in Canada. But when a company, particularly a small operator, decides to mine o…

The Northern Miner, now moving into its 72nd year of publication, is a venerable institution, but not an old one. It is not old, that is, in its outlook and attitudes. It is for instance keeping up wi…

Issues on the COATS over-the- counter system were generally listless, with many trading downward. Matt Berry Mines gave up some ground to 35 cents -40 cents . The company, which controls a gold proper…

An initial ore reserve figure of 7.8 million tons grading an average of 0.187 oz gold per ton has been established by Lac Minerals from a new zone near the eastern boundary of its Bousquet property in…

Excessive debt is being cited once again as the reason behind losses at Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. The big uranium miner and nuclear fuels manufacturer reported a loss of $12.7 million on revenues of $69.7…

Jilbey Industries says diamond drilling and other work, including an IP survey, is under way on its 16-claim property in Duverny Twp. near Amos, Que., with Bay Resources and Services as operator. Jilb…

Sunrise Metals has acquired a block of mineral leases, subject to a 3% royalty and cash option payments, adjacent to Seabright Resources’ Beaverdam gold discovery in Nova Scotia. Sunrise has also acqu…