1986

Several issues were stronger this week, reflecting improvements in precious metal prices. On the platinum front, Boston Bay Mines, which controls the Lac des Iles platinum/palladium deposit north of T…

Louise Michaud, of Cornwall, Ont., believed to be the first woman in North America to be enrolled in a Ph.D. mining engineering program, has won a $5,000 post-graduate scholarship from the Canadian Mi…

Mining Corp. has concluded a new collective agreement with the United Steelworkers of America who represent its 1,100 unionized employees at the operations in B.C.’s Highland Valley. The agreement is …

Cline Development Corp. has received assay results of stripping and channel sampling by Esso Minerals Canada on the Markes showing of the Cline East property optioned to Esso and is expecting assays f…

Shareholders of Homestake Explorations will be asked to consider and, if deemed appropriate, to approve a name change of the company to HSK Minerals Ltd. A special shareholders meeting has been called…

The Northwest Territories’ premier gold producer, Echo Bay Mines, has intersected some high grade gold values on the Cass zone near Indin Lake. Although results from some 27 holes put down on the zone…

changed to Dominion Securities Inc. A new holding company, Dominion Securities Ltd., has been formed to hold 100% of the outstanding shares of the member, Dominion Securities Inc.

An agreement has been signed between Edmonton-based Terra Mines and a Mexican mining company called Industrias Penoles, S.A. de C.V. providing for joint exploration and development of a group of gold …

The recent opening of the spanking new Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, with a dramatic linkup to the London Stock Exchange, further accents the changes being wrought by space-age technology in the financ…

the name Pioneer Metals Corp. Shareholders will receive share-for-share for Pioneer and l new share for each 2.4 Maverick shares.

Copper producers are still struggling through a protracted period of low prices, the lowest since mid-1984. As the traditionally quiet summer comes to a close, many are looking for better things ahead…

at 540,000 tonnes with an average grade of 5.8 g per tonne. The new estimate includes results of the recently completed drill program on the Joubi j oint venture property in Dubuisson Twp.