1987

The following is an excerpt from “Free Trade and the Mineral Industry in Canada,” a speech recently delivered by Debra P. Steger, a lawyer currently with McCarthy & McCarthy of Toronto. Security of …

Citadel Gold Mines remains busy with exploration work on four properties near Wawa, Ont. At the former producing Surluga gold mine, Citadel is drifting and performing underground drilling. This work h…

Jascan Resources has gained a 60% interest in the Dawson project, which has about one million tons of drill-indicated reserves grading 0.15 oz gold per ton, acquired from U.S. Borax & Chemical Corp. b…

I feel compelled to question The Northern Miner’s emergence as The Daily Telegraph of the mining world. Isn’t the amount of space and the ongoing repetition that you have accorded (Murray) Pezim’s juv…

A feasibility study has been received by Galactic Resources from Amselco Minerals for the Ridgeway project near Columbia, S.C. Galactic says construction of a 15,000-ton-per-day process plant can begi…

I am interested in finding out more about the copper staking rush of the 1960s and the exploration camp, Coppermine River Ltd. at Hope Lake, near Coppermine, N.W.T. Specifically: the number of claims …

Chevron Minerals will be spending approximately $700,000 this year on B.Y.G. Natural Resources’ Mt. Nansen gold property in the Yukon. The expenditure is almost identical to last year’s budget which w…

Toronto-listed International Platinum Corp. has signed a letter of intent with Degussa A.G. to enter into further negotiations on a joint venture exploration agreement regarding several of the former’…

Drilling on several properties held by Kinbauri Gold Corp. has yielded marginal results. On the company’s Morrisette property northeast of Kirkland Lake, Ont., one hole intersected a zone of anomalous…

Production from the 200,000-ton bulk heap leach test at the Cargo Muchacho project in southern California is expected to start mid- March, says President H. Lutz Klingmann. Approximately 10,000 ft of …

Western Canadian Mining Corp. — J. Douglas Little appointed president.

Active trading on the Montreal Exchange led to new highs during the past week before the exchange’s portfolio index slipped back slightly. Mining issues continued to be among the active stocks, with t…