People — TENKE
Rudolf Mueller appointed director.
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People — PARAMOUNT VENT.
Adrian Lungan appointed president; Paul Conroy appointed chairman; and Colin Orr Ewing appointed director.
TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE INDICES (August 11, 1997)
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People — BLACK HAWK
Ian Shaw appointed vp of finance and chief financial officer.
PRODUCER & DEALER PRICES (August 11, 1997)
Aluminium: LME settlements US$1,723.50 per tonne, alloy $1,490 per tonne (Aug. 5/97).Antimony: Composite free market, US$1,900 per tonne (Aug. 5/97).Bismuth: Composite free market US$3.70 per lb. (Aug…
High Desert Minerals rolls in royalty interests
High Desert Minerals (hdr-v) has entered into a non-arm’s-length letter of intent to merge with Royal Hal, SLH and Gold Trend — private companies owned by Sean and Lee Halavais.The Halavaises are the…
People — BHP MINERALS
John Grubb appointed senior vice-president for Zimbabwe.
DIAMOND PAGE — Winspear recovers diamonds at Camsell
Winspear Resources (wsp-v) has recovered diamonds from holes drilled into a complex kimberlite breccia at the Camsell Lake project in the Northwest Territories.The first hole drilled on a geophysical …
High River advances Taparko gold project
High River Gold Mines (hrg-t) has upgraded to 1 million oz. its gold resource estimate for three deposits on the Taparko Shear zone in Burkina Faso.The indicated and inferred resource for the three zo…
Exhibition focuses on Zimbabwe
The mining potential of Zimbabwe will be the focus of an exhibition to be held in Harare from Nov. 10 to 13.Entitled, “Zimine ’97,” the conference will showcase the African country’s burgeoning minera…
St Andrew extends Taylor West porphyry
Exploratory drilling by St Andrew Goldfields (sas-t) at its Taylor gold property near Matheson, Ont., has extended the west porphyry zone another 122 metres westwards, bringing its known length to 610…
May output down for most primary minerals
Canadian production of iron ore and potash increased in May, compared with the same period last year. However, output of gold, silver, lead, zinc, nickel, asbestos and copper was down.The statistics s…