EXPLORATION ’93 — Major uses of rhenium
The major uses of rhenium are in petroleum-reforming catalysts and in high-temperature superalloys used in jet engine components. The U.S. Bureau of Mines reports that rhenium is used in petroleum-ref…
The major uses of rhenium are in petroleum-reforming catalysts and in high-temperature superalloys used in jet engine components. The U.S. Bureau of Mines reports that rhenium is used in petroleum-ref…
Western markets continued to churn over the report period ended Nov. 23, with the Vancouver Stock Exchange resource index posting a 2.23-point gain to 1,526.16. The composite index lost ground, slippi…
Shareholders of Cyprus Minerals (NYSE) and Amax (NYSE) have voted in favor of a merger. The new corporation is called Cyprus Amax Minerals Co. It becomes the second-largest copper producer in the U.S….
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Montreal-listed Orex Exploration (ME) has completed a financing agreement which will garner it $400,000. The company, based in Rouyn-Noranda, Que., will issue a million common shares and a million flo…
Four holes have been drilled by Cross Lake Minerals (VSE) on its Sheraton-Timmins polymetallic project near Timmins, Ont. The first two were drilled to test a 1,200-metre-long electromagnetic (EM) con…
The demise of the Soviet Union has ironically left Cuba — romantically known as “the isle of eternal summer” — out in the cold. As a result, the country’s mining and metals sector is now desperately…
A feasibility study expected early in the new year may determine the fate of the Holloway gold project in northeastern Ontario. Hemlo Gold Mines (TSE), with a 58% direct and indirect ownership interes…
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Assays of channel samples from Cathedral Gold’s (VSE) Kaburi-Eldorado project in Guyana have proved interesting. Ten trenches were used to test a 650-metre section of the 1,500-metre-long Hicks shear …
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