1993

Having arranged to acquire the remaining portion of Falconbridge Gold (TSE) that it does not own, Kinross Gold (TSE) is well on its way to achieving its goal of becoming a medium-sized gold producer b…

Having outlined four new targets on its Guadalupe gold property in Sonora state, Mexico, Bishop Resources International Exploration (CDN) has staked an additional 920 hectares. The new target areas we…

The gold mining industry in the United States spends millions of dollars annually on reclamation efforts. The planning, design, recontouring, revegetation and maintenance associated with reclamation e…

Bolivar Goldfields (VSE) can acquire a gold concession previously worked by local miners in the Chicanan district of Venezuela. The 2,000-hectare Nena concession is south of a gold discovery made by G…

Editor’s note: The author concludes his stories about Sophie May Ryan, dubbed “the North’s fabulous Diamond Queen” in a 1952 obituary in a weekly newspaper in The Pas, Man. The Diamond Queen ran the r…

A prospector for 49 years, Kervin McDonough has died at his St. Catharines, Ont., home. He was 70. A member of the McDonough clan of explorationists, he worked in Ireland, the U.S. and extensively thr…

Wilderness Wandering on Vancouver Island, by Walter Guppy. Published by Grassroots Publication, P.O. Box 94, Tofino, B.C. V0R 2ZO. 136 pages. $12.95 in book stores; $15 postpaid from publisher. The bo…

A new mineral resource policy will provide $200,000 for geoscience investigation in New Brunswick. The provincial government said the funds are intended to help the private sector in its mineral explo…

Pierce Parker appointed director.

John Chapman and Richard Clark appointed directors.

William Dow appointed director.

Daniel McKinnon appointed director.