1988

A falling gold price meant nothing but bad news for resource companies this week, with the mining and minerals index experiencing four consecutive days of decline, including an almost 46-pt drop one d…

While the ink is still drying on an agreement to sell its mining arm to a subsidiary of Australia based Western Mining Corp., Northgate Exploration of Toronto has gone shopping. Not content to sit aro…

A 15,000-ft diamond drilling program has begun on the 234-claim property held by Lake Ponask Gold Corp. Located in northwestern Ontario, the property is being explored for precious and base metals. Dr…

An active drilling program on Better Resources’ Mt. Washington project on Vancouver Island, B.C., has indicated a healthy reserve potential for the property. Drill-indicated reserves, based on a 0.03-…

Significant gold mineralization in two of three drill holes completed in December at the Obalski mine property at Chibougamau, Que., has been reported by Syngold Exploration of Toronto. Hole 87-2, dri…

A joint venture agreement with BayWest Capital Equities has given Barkhor Resources the right to earn a 50% interest in BayWest’s 164-claim Ross River-Faro gold prospect located near Faro in the Yukon…

** over ** With a number of company operations currently being expanded and several mines under development, Australia’s Western Mining Corp. believes that “additional diversification outside of Aust…

In order to provide space for the dramatic growth in the number of mining stocks listed on all Canadian stock exchanges, we have deleted from our stock range tables those listings which are solely inv…

Control of a company with an undeveloped copper property in northern British Columbia is being sold by Kam-Kotia Mines of Toronto to a numbered company in Vancouver. President of the numbered company …

A takeover offer for all the shares of Newfield Mines has been made by Toronto-listed Jonpol Explorations. Jonpol is offering one common share for each Newfield share. Jonpol ended the day at $1.90 wh…

Montreal-based Aumisko Exploration, incorporated early in 1987, was recently listed on the Montreal Exchange. Aumisko currently has interests in four properties, all in northwestern Quebec: one near t…

Gold production from Nevada Goldfields’ Kingston mine near Reno, Nev., helped boost profits for the first half of fiscal 1988 to $1,968,844 on sales of $9,480,328. The company sold 20,787 oz gold and …