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A previously announced funding agreement between Quinto Mining (VSE) and a U.S. investment syndicate was recently finalized. In return for $4 million in funding, the syndicate will earn a 50% interest…

Several advanced mineral projects moved forward in British Columbia in 1992, while others were put on hold to await better financing conditions, or were placed in regulatory limbo by government decree…

In the late 1940s, I was engaged in a prospecting venture in southern Mexico to find out if there was any of the reputed 40-kg silver ore left in the old Twelve Apostles mine. The mine was reached by …

Arthur Freeze appointed director; Adam Smith appointed vice-president.

Thomas Sawyer appointed director.

Gerard Drummond elected chief executive officer and William Glasgow elected president.

Gordon Dixon appointed director.

A wealth of geological knowledge is stored across the province in eight Ontario government drill core libraries. The facilities are much like regular libraries, but instead of books, they contain diam…

Les Taylor, Peter Merry and Val Partridge elected directors.

A private placement of two million special warrants has been completed by Tiomin Resources (ME). Upon clearance of a final prospectus, the two million special warrants will be exchanged for two millio…

If the economic recovery does not gather more momentum in 1993, it appears unlikely that base metal prices will show much improvement over their depressed 1992 levels. After sharp drops in October and…

Drilling is expected to resume on the Huckleberry porphyry copper property near Kemano, B.C., this month. The drilling will complete the planned 1992 program which was recently suspended because of he…