A couple of former executives in LAC Minerals’ (TSE) exploration wing have agreed to lend their expertise to a new mining group. When the assets of Alberta-listed companies Perrex Resources (ASE), Alb…
Toronto-based resource giant Rio Algom Ltd. (TSE) has emerged as the largest shareholder in an unlisted gold exploration company called Pan Orvana Resources. In a bid to access some joint venture oppo…
Photo by George Onuska Bill James, right, president of Falconbridge Ltd. and the keynote speaker at the recent inaugural dinner for the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, points out to fellow head-table gu…
Major shareholders of Sulphurets Gold (VSE) have agreed to vote in favor of an agreement that would result in Western Canadian Mining Corp. (TSE) acquiring 7,423,290 of its shares in exchange for West…
The Santa Cruz joint venture of Asarco Inc. and Freeport-McMoRan Gold have purchased 2,420 acres near Casa Grande, Ariz. The companies say a portion of the acreage contains a porphyry copper deposit. …
Preliminary sampling of a recently-optioned property in Idaho is confirming the presence of good gold values in underground workings, according to Troudor Resources (VSE). The company recently acquire…
Even though Balmertown,Ont., is a 4- Ehour drive from the nearest city, Campbell management has never relied on itinerant miners coming to the door in search of employment. Rather than bring in unskil…
A joint venture agreement has been concluded between Unocal Canada, Moneta Porcupine Mines (TSE) and Nahanni Mines (TSE) on a group of 86 claims near Timmins, Ont. Located in Michaud Twp., the propert…
This country’s mine-finders and mine-makers are recognized internationally as the best — everywhere but right here at home. For the average Canadian, we suggest, remains quite unaware of the very sig…
A lawyer by profession, James Y. Murdoch, who became first president of the fledgling Noranda Mines in 1922, at the age of 32, was one of the greatest builders Canada ever produced, not just a mine-…
After persuading E.B. Eddy Forest Products to extend the deadline for an option agreement at the old Jerome mine near Swayze, Ont., Toronto-based Jerome Gold Mines (ASE) has raised $500,500 to finance…
Calgary-based junior capital pool company Goldbank Ventures (ASE) has acquired a polymetallic property in British Columbia’s Kamloops mining division. Goldbank recently staked the 134-claim Mila prope…
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