Donner resumes drilling near Voisey’s Bay
Donner Minerals (DML-V) has resumed drilling at the South Voisey’s Bay joint venture in Labrador.Drilling had been suspended for one month to allow an ongoing pulse electromagnetic survey to delineate…
1998
Polymet sells Labrador interests
Polymet Mining (POM-V) is pulling out of Labrador so that it can focus on the Dunka Road polymetallic project in northeastern Minnesota.Polymet, formerly known as Fleck Resources, will sell its intere…
DIAMOND PAGE – NAME CHANGE (September 14, 1998)
ATS Wheel (ATK-V) has changed its name to JSS Resources (JSS-V).
METAL PRICES (September 14, 1998)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange-Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)DateSept. 8Sept.7Sept.4Sept.3…
Asian woes affect Hillsborough
The economic malaise in Asia is taking its toll on Hillsborough Resources (HLB-T), operator and 63%-owner of the Quinsam coal mine near Campbell River, B.C.After consulting with Japanese partner Marub…
DIAMOND PAGE — Monopros awaits Victoria Island results
Following the discovery of five kimberlite bodies earlier this summer at the Victoria Island diamond project in the Northwest Territories, Monopros has completed a surface program of till sampling, gl…
DIAMOND PAGE — DIAMOND NEWS ROUNDUP — Trans Hex builds sampling plant
By October, Trans Hex International (THI-T) expects to complete construction of a 100-tonne dense-media-separation sampling plant for the Northbank alluvial diamond property in Namibia.Later this mont…
DIAMOND PAGE — DIAMOND NEWS ROUNDUP — Trivalence finds kimberlite
Vancouver-based Trivalence Mining (TMI-V) has identified a new kimberlite at its 85%-owned Aredor diamond concession in Guinea, West Africa.The K-21 pipe was found 3 km south and upstream of the junio…
VenCan seeks remedy in Edwards dispute
Operator River Gold Mines (riv-t) says the Edwards mine, northeast of Wawa, Ont., sustained a loss last year. The mine’s owner, VenCan Gold (VCG-M), believes the operation generated a profit of at lea…
NEWS ROUNDUP — Freewest reports find near Sudbury
Montreal-based Freewest Resources Canada (FWR-T) has discovered a platinum-palladium-copper-nickel showing at its wholly owned Folson Lake property in Gerow Twp., 80 km west of Sudbury, Ont.The 320-ha…
Australasian PGM sector needs dash of Fipke magic
In the mid 1980s, the man who later undertook the great geological detective work that put Canada on the world diamond map, was in the deep south of New Zealand, in conditions as cold as, but a lot we…
Minroc eyes Kanyemba
Clifford Frame’s Minroc Mines (MN-T) is acquiring a half-interest in the Kanyemba uranium-vanadium project in Zimbabwe from Toronto-based junior Cline Mining (CMK-V).Minroc will pay Cline 1.5 million …