BASE METALS — PolyMet tests NorthMet material
Metallurgical tests on material pulled from the NorthMet copper-nickel project in northern Minnesota are returning encouraging results for PolyMet Mining (POM-V).The bio-leach testing is being carried…
News
IMF gold sales would harm struggling economies
The International Monetary Fund’s proposal to sell 10% of its gold to assist debt relief would harm, rather than help, some of the world’s poorest nations, says the World Gold Council.The New York-bas…
Winspear unveils Snap Lake results
The NW Snap Lake kimberlite dyke can no longer be said to have the richest per-carat values ever reported in the Northwest Territories. Results from the first half of a 6,000-tonne surface bulk sample…
BASE METALS — Foran expands McIlvenna Bay deposit — Exploration program targets gold-rich portion of stockwork
With an infill drilling campaign nearing completion, Foran Mining (FOM-V) is beginning a program of stepout work in an attempt to boost the tonnage of the McIlvenna Bay zinc-copper-gold deposit.The 13…
Index (June 28, 1999)
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GSC efforts benefit diamond exploration
The Geological Survey of Canada has taken a keen interest in diamond exploration in recent years, triggered by the crop of new mines developed or under development in Canada’s Northwest Territories an…
SUPPLIERS ROUNDUP — Kvaerner awarded Chilean mine contract
Mining consulting firm Kvaerner has signed a US$170-million deal to design and build a mining and solvent extraction-electrowinning operation at the El Tosoro project in Chile.According to Kvaerner’s …
BASE METALS — Partners start work at Duck Pond — First phase to include 20-hole drilling program
In yet another illustration of the rebirth of exploration in central Newfoundland, a drilling program, now under way, could blow a decade’s dust off two base metal deposits that have been inactive sin…
EDITORIAL & OPINION — ODDS ‘N’ SODS — In record time
I recently had the privilege of renewing contact with George and Lois Jewett and the family of Merv Upham. I first met them in the 1950s, during the glory days of the development of ten uranium mines …
McClean Lake gets green light from AECB
Following months of deferment, Canada’s Atomic Energy Control Board has approved an operating licence that permits the McClean Lake uranium project in northern Saskatchewan to begin producing yellowca…
EDITORIAL & OPINION — FACTS ‘N’ FIGURES — Canadian mineral value drops in 1998
The overall value of Canada’s mineral production fell by 12.3% in 1998 to some $44.3 billion, according to Natural Resources Canada. Significant declines in world prices for major minerals and metals …
LETTER TO THE EDITOR — Reader disputes Pakeagama Lake claims
We note with interest the recent exchange of letters between John Cumming and Donald Bubar in the June 14-29 issue of The Northern Miner, regarding the claims made for the Pakeagama Lake pegmatite dis…