1991

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US54.75-55.50 cents per lb. (Oct. 24, 1991). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US82-84 cents per lb. (Aug. 8, 1991). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$3.10-3.20 per lb. (Sep. 26, 1991). CAD…

Less than five months after the official opening the Van Stone zinc-lead mine in northeastern Washington, Equinox Resources (TSE) has been forced to suspend operations because of low zinc prices. The …

Tony White appointed director.

Westminer Canada has put its Gays River lead-zinc mine and mill in Nova Scotia up for sale following a 2-year attempt to solve water problems at the underground operation. “It’s a bit small for us,” s…

Paul Reinhart appointed to the board.

A 50% owned affiliate of Laramide Resources (TSE), private company Quilchena Resources, reports the completion of surface work and the drilling of three holes on porphyry copper-gold property near Asp…

A recent report on Canadian competitiveness by Harvard professor Michael Porter cites this country’s reliance on natural resources as one of the country’s economic problems. Prosperity has come easily…

In recent decades, the University of Toronto has produced some of Canada’s leading geophysicists, Duncan Crone among them. President of Crone Geophysics & Exploration, he is best known as a pioneer of…

Coral Gold Corp. — 8000,000 shs offered @ 17 cents per sh.

In response to continuing weakness in the nickel market, Falconbridge said it is extending the shutdown of one of two electric furnaces at its Dominican Republic ferronickel operation until at least t…

Saskatoon-based Cameco (TSE) has filed a final prospectus for a secondary share issue. The secondary issue includes 5.33 million common shares of Cameco held by the Saskatchewan Mining Development Cor…

Exploration drilling at the Trout Lake polymetallic mine near Flin Flon, Man., continues to confirm the presence of several individual lenses below the 560-metre level. Most of the summer work, 7,775 …