Nuclear waste can be safely buried in the Canadian Shield, according to a federal environmental impact statement. The report, based on 15 years of research by Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL), says spen…
Carbonatites, Nepheline Syenites, Kimberlites & Related Rocks in British Columbia, by Jennifer Pell. Published by the British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Geological Sur…
Montreal-based Cambior (TSE) will buy a 40% interest in a company that owns a project with a mineral inventory of 500 million tonnes averaging 0.75% copper, based on a cutoff grade of 0.5% copper. Pac…
A $72-million development program on Inco’s (TSE) high-grade Victor copper-nickel deposit near Sudbury, Ont., is under way. The program, scheduled for completion over the next three years, will includ…
The mining recorder in Ontario’s Larder Lake mining division has made a ruling regarding the conflict between Sudbury Contact Minerals (TSE) and CDN-listed Strike Minerals. The case concerns three dis…
CDN-listed Van Ollie Explorations and three partners have opted out of a plan to buy the Kremzar gold mine near Wawa, Ont. The companies were to pay Canada Tungsten $2.5 million (of which $500,000 had…
Nickel production costs have fallen for three consecutive years and are set to decline further in the period 1995-1997, says British research firm Brook Hunt & Associates. In its publication Nickel In…
In El Salvador, a drill program of 8,000 metres is continuing on the gold project known as El Dorado, with crews focusing on three vein systems: El Dorado, La Coyatera North and Nueva Experanza. The p…
In Yellowknife, N.W.T., the trial has begun into the deaths of nine men at the Giant gold mine in September, 1992, following a bomb blast. Charged with nine counts of first-degree murder is Roger Warr…
Diamond drilling is in progress at the Bramador property, 45 km southeast of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The 1,000-metre program is testing the continuity and thickness of a massive sulphide horizon and …
BHP Minerals has begun reconnaissance drilling and sampling on Diamond Fields Resources’ (TSE) 660-sq.-km marine diamond concession near Luderitz, Namibia. The sampling follows a geophysical survey by…
CDN-listed Band-Ore Resources recently acquired two properties near Timmins, Ont. In Denton and Thorneloe twps., the company acquired 20 leased and 120 unpatented mining claims from joint owners Homes…
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