MABC doles out Mining Week hardware
The mining industry in Canada’s westernmost province may have little to cheer about, but the Mining Association of British Columbia put its best foot forward during its annual awards ceremony, held at…
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Goldcorp dogged by strikers
Officers of Goldcorp (G-T) faced off against an angry group of striking miners at a tense annual meeting held recently in Toronto.The workers, members of the United Steelworkers of America (Local 950)…
GOLD FUNDS (May 31, 1999)
Gold Funds as of May 20, 1999BGRCentralNet Value$13.815.64Price$8.90$5.65…
Eagle Plains forms alliance with Billiton
Eagle Plains Resources (EPL-A) has entered into a financing arrangement with Billiton Exploration Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of London-based Billiton.In return for taking down a $450,000 privat…
East meets West at White Silver Mtn.
A decade ago, it would have been impossible for a Canadian junior to gain a foothold into the mining and metallurgical complex operated by state-owned Baiyin Non-Ferrous Metals Corp. (BNMC) in north-c…
PEOPLE — Pacific Bay
Guilford Brett appointed president; William Bird appointed vp of exploration.
PEOPLE — Admiral Bay
Thomas Kennedy appointed president and director.
Int’l Curator seeks funds for Crowsnest
International Curator Resources (IC-T) has amended a previously announced private placement; the financing now consists of 1.85 million shares and 1.27 million units priced at 35 cents per share or un…
Earth sciences child’s play at ROM exhibition — Geology, palaeobiology no longer domain of stuffy old academics
At the new Dynamic Earth exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum in downtown Toronto, kids rule.Gone are the dry, academic presentations of the earth’s geologic evolution and carefully ordered and boxe…
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PRECIOUS METALS — Cost reporting a hot potato for gold producers
Special to The Northern MinerProduction cost has always been an important measure of the relative health of a gold producer. Now, as bullion prices flirt with 20-year lows, it has become a glaring ind…