The author is outgoing president of the Mining Association of Canada. On the eve of his retirement from that Ottawa-based organization, he has written the following article at the request of Keep Mini…
A 4-week-old strike at three Tennessee zinc mines owned by Asarco (AR-N) has cut production to 30% of capacity.The employees, represented by the International Chemical Workers Union, went on strike Oc…
Having incurred more than $80 million in expenditures on a 2-year prefeasibility study, the Diavik diamond project in the Northwest Territories is entering the formal feasibility and permitting phase….
Gold prices may be in a slump and nickel prices barely breathing, but Manitoba is still pushing ahead with its goal to boost mineral exploration by 50% by the year 2000 from 1993 levels. At the same t…
Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDE-N) has received permission to develop, the Kensington gold project, 45 miles north of Juneau, Alaska.The company is engaged in studies with independent consultants aimed at lo…
With the official opening of an underground test area, the Northern Ontario Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT) is fast becoming Canada’s premier proving ground for new mining technology.NORCAT, w…
An 11-hole program, carried out to assess primary sulphide mineralization below the oxide ores at the Sadiola Hill gold mine in western Mali, has confirmed that several broad mineralized zones exist a…
Donner Resources (DRZ-V) has changed its name to Donner Minerals (DML-V).
Robert St. John appointed director.
Efforts to expand reserves at the Glimmer mine near Matheson, Ont., have borne fruit.In an underground drill hole, Exall Resources (EXL-T) hit an interval assaying 159.09 grams gold per tonne over 8 m…
Diamond drilling on the Mexican project known as El Salvador has intersected a 163-metre interval of massive-to-semi-massive sulphides.The 225-sq.-km project, situated in the central state of Zacateca…
Phelps Dodge (PD-N) has completed expansion of the Candelaria copper operation in northern Chile more than eight months ahead of schedule and US$30 million below budget.The company began the expansion…
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