1989

Several gem quality diamonds have been discovered at the American Diamond Mine property in Arkansas, Continental Precious Minerals (ME) reports. Largest of the diamonds uncovered is 0.7 of a carat. Th…

We write as solicitors to Efrem Specogna regarding your feature, “Debating the Discoveries,” in the July, 1988, issue. Specogna, along with Giovanni Trinco, did the initial prospecting and, in 1970, m…

Two generalizations apply to the total Hemlo orebody. First, the grade decreases going from east to west, so that the David Bell mine (owned jointly by Teck Corp. and Corona Corp.) has the highest ave…

I hold a stock certificate dated March 14, 1975 for 44 shares of a company called Auric Resources, formerly Consolidated Nicholson. Can you please give me a status report on Auric Resources. J.A. Thor…

Metallurgists at the Kidd Creek Mmine in Timmins, Ont., have been watching the automotive industry in Japan very closely. Not because they buy a n ew car every year, but because that particular Japane…

When he was plucked last year from his job as manager of mineral exploration for Western Mining and sent to Toronto to run the Australian company’s new North American mining wing, Jim Laylor’s mandate…

The possibility that the Russians may try to seize the big metal mine and plants in northern Finland, which International Nickel has been developing, has cropped up again. The Petsamo nickel mine, con…

The southwestern and northeastern parts of the Schreiber areas, northern Ontario, are reviewed in great detail in reports just published by the Ontario Department of Mines.

Brunner Canada, manufacturer of drill bits and accessories, has named R. T. Legault as its new national sales manager. Legault has more than 30 years experience in mining and related industries, part…

Denehurst Ltd. was formed in 1987 to acquire the Woodlawn base metal mine near Goulbourne in New South Wales from CRA Ltd. The mine, developed as an open pit in the mid-1970s, was nearing the end of i…

Already a gold producer through its minor interest in the Buckhorn mine in Nevada, Equinox Resources (TSE) has secured an option to buy 100% of the Van Stone lead-zinc mine in Washington State. The fo…

Upper Canada Mines announced this week in a letter to shareholders that its new, 150-ton mill (near Kirkland Lake, Ont.) is ready for turning over. It was expected that operations would begin Oct 5. O…