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Azco Mining — 3.2 million shs issuable upon the exercise of 3.2 million special wts @ $2.25 per special wt. Cambior — US $5.5 million units, each unit consisting of one common sh and one-half common…

At a ceremony in Havana, Holmer Gold Mines (ASE) signed a joint venture agreement with the Cuban state mining company Geomineras, S.A.. Holmer, which initiated Canadian exploration activity in Cuba, c…

Supply for platinum is expected to have exceeded demand in 1993, reports Johnson Matthey. In its Platinum 1993 Interim Review, the metals fabricator says demand this year is expected to have expanded …

In spite of high taxation rates, compensation costs and land tenure and access problems, Ontario is still an attractive place to mine minerals. That was the message delivered at a Mineral Development …

Editor’s note: The author concludes his stories about Sophie May Ryan, dubbed “the North’s fabulous Diamond Queen” in a 1952 obituary in a weekly newspaper in The Pas, Man. The Diamond Queen ran the r…

A prospector for 49 years, Kervin McDonough has died at his St. Catharines, Ont., home. He was 70. A member of the McDonough clan of explorationists, he worked in Ireland, the U.S. and extensively thr…

Wilderness Wandering on Vancouver Island, by Walter Guppy. Published by Grassroots Publication, P.O. Box 94, Tofino, B.C. V0R 2ZO. 136 pages. $12.95 in book stores; $15 postpaid from publisher. The bo…

A new mineral resource policy will provide $200,000 for geoscience investigation in New Brunswick. The provincial government said the funds are intended to help the private sector in its mineral explo…

Pierce Parker appointed director.

John Chapman and Richard Clark appointed directors.

William Dow appointed director.

Daniel McKinnon appointed director.