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NEWS ROUNDUP — Kinross raises production

Toronto-based Kinross Gold (TSE) is increasing production at the QR mine near Quesnel, B.C. The daily rate will rise to 800 from 500 tonnes, as a result of the provincial government having approved an…


Ont. aggregate producers meet

The Aggregate Producers’ Association of Ontario will convene its 37th annual meeting Feb. 24-25 in Toronto. The theme of the meeting is: “Quality . . . there is no substitute.” The leader of Ontario’s…





New aluminum plant for Quebec

By the summer of 1995, a new aluminum plant will be up and running in Trois-Rivieres, Que. The provincial government and Venezuelan-based Sural have agreed to share the $60-million cost of building th…


Reduced treatment fees for Ok Tedi

Base metal producer Ok Tedi Mining will pay less in copper treatment fees to smelters in Japan in fiscal 1994-95 (April 1-March 30) than in the previous year. Fees that will be paid to process metal w…


Mariquita funding

Development will soon begin on the Mariquita copper deposit in northwestern Mexico. A Mexican company held 49% by Cominco Resources International (TSE) and 51% by Empresas Frisco will acquire the depo…


Musto accepts MIM offer

The Bajo de la Alumbrera gold-copper deposit has been given the green light. Meeting in Toronto, officials from International Musto Explorations (TSE) and MIM Holdings announced they have agreed to de…


EDITORIAL PAGE — The digital nightmare

The age of the computer was supposed to have delivered us from the mountains of paperwork generated by our obsolete, pre-Information Age technologies. That deliverance seems decades away yet. If anyth…


Strong VSE trading trend continues into 1994

Market trading maintained its strength and stock prices rose on the Vancouver Stock Exchange (VSE) in January as the volume and value of shares traded surpassed December figures. Overall, the market c…


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