A BREAKNECK PACE NICKEL PLATE
The inappropriately-named Nickel Plate Mountain is a goldbug’s dream. Placer gold first drew miners to the area near Hedley, B.C., in the 1860s. Later, lode-type gold brought the miners back to the ar…
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Law SPELLING IT OUT – Joint Venture Agreements
If there are two parties to an agreement, whether or not they have equal interests, decisions will either be unilateral or they will be unanimous. There is no in-between. So in these circumstances, wh…
WHAT’S NEW Engineering Software
Pincock, Allen & Holt, a major international consulting and engineering firm in Lakewood, Colo., has introduced two new additions to its line of mining software. Opcost provides detailed and summarize…
50 Years Ago January, 1938 REFINED ANTIMONY TO BE PRODUCED
The first commercial production of refined antimony in Canada will take place within the next few months. The metal will be produced by Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada in its antimony ref…
Managing PLATEAUING
At first glance, Greg has it made. He has a good job in his chosen field and makes lots of money. He has a wife and family and lives in a nice house, which is almost paid for. He has what virtually e…
A BREAKNECK PACE Beacon
One of the first new mines to come into production last year was D’Or Val Mines’ Beacon mine, east of Val D’Or, Que. It cost this Hughes-Lang company $35 million to bring the mine into production last…
A BREAKNECK PACE Winston Lake
Ontario’s first zinc mine since the Kidd Creek operation came into production in the 1960s should be in full production by the end of the first quarter. Minnova decided late in 1986, shortly after the…
A BREAKNECK PACE Giant Yellowknife
Canada’s third tailings re-treatment project is scheduled to start up in Yellowknife this May. Between June 15 and Aug 28 last year, owner Giant Yellowknife Mines ran a pilot plant operation to find t…
A BREAKNECK PACE Kremzar
That Canamax Resources is bringing yet another mine into production hardly rates as news anymore. True news would be that this aggressive producer/explorer isn’t cutting the ceremonial ribbon on anoth…
Debunking a myth HOW TO TELL THE JUNIORS FROM THE SENIORS
The following criteria define a junior mining company: * Neither a producing company nor the recipient of significant income from production or from some other business venture. * Exploration funding …
A BREAKNECK PACE Golden Patricia
A few years ago, St. Joe Gold Corp. was spun off as a publicly traded company to oversee St. Joe Minerals’ (the parent firm’s) gold holdings in the Western Hemisphere. Overnight, St. Joe became a gold…
A BREAKNECK PACE St Andrew
It’s been a while coming, but it finally appears that this will be the year St Andrew Goldfields will put its Stock Twp. property into production. Reconnaissance surface drilling first identified the …