Shareholders of Royal Oak Mines (TSE) voted 95.7% in favor of the company’s revised takeover offer for Lac Minerals (TSE) at a special meeting here. Royal Oak is now offering, for each Lac share, the …
Management of the Porgera joint venture has started routine recommissioning procedures at the explosives plant at the Papua New Guinean mine site. Placer Dome (TSE), an 18.9% owner of the project, sai…
Plans for restarting its open-pit mine at McLeese Lake in east-central British Columbia, as well as ongoing feasibility work on the nearby Mt. Polley project, have not kept Gibraltar Mines (TSE) from …
Realizing that there are other prolific areas for nickel and copper mineralization outside Canada, nickel-producing giant Inco (TSE) has acquired interests in a number of international projects. Inco,…
Armed with a pile of cash from one of Canada’s largest corporate stock offerings, Falconbridge (TSE) can now proceed with two major base metal deposits which should fuel the company’s growth well into…
We hired many newly arrived immigrants during the early years of mine development and production at Elliot Lake, Ont., in the fast-developing world uranium centre during the 1950s. Numerous sturdy Ita…
Nautilus Resources (NUT:VSE) has changed its name to New Leather on a 1-new-for-3-old-share basis.
The Porcupine camp in northern Ontario will eat up the lion’s share of the 1994 exploration budget of Royal Oak Mines (TSE). Of the $6 million that is earmarked for exploration, almost $4 million will…
The latest round of what has been referred to as an “auction” of Lac Minerals (TSE) saw initial bidder Royal Oak Mines (TSE) increase its offer to $2.4 billion. And million-ounce gold producer Lac too…
A longtime employee and former president of Texasgulf, Richard Mollison, died recently of cancer. He was 78. A native of Minnesota and a graduate, in mining engineering, of the University of Minnesota…
Described as a prospector, minefinder and entrepreneur, Arthur Stollery died recently. He was 80. A graduate in 1939 of mining engineering from Queen’s University, he is credited with playing a key ro…
A former employee at Cominco’s Sullivan mine operations, Charles Allan McLeish died recently in Kimberley, B.C. He was 93. A native of Irvine, Alta., he graduated from the University of British Columb…
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