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Sidney Semeniuk appointed director.

The official opening of the Griffith iron ore mine at Ear Falls, Ont., was to take place one Monday in 1968. The preceding Friday at 3 p.m., Darrell Gill, purchasing agent at the Griffith, phoned us, …

Guest speaker at a Nov. 26 luncheon sponsored by the Toronto Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum will be Brian Meikle. He will give an update of his namesake project i…

Dennis Baxter elected director and appointed president.

Mineral resources have contributed greatly to Australia’s growth and continue to do so, a luncheon gathering of the Toronto branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) w…

Colin Redden appointed president.

Robert Tsuida appointed director.

Mining executive John Ralph Needham died recently in Toronto. He was 64. Needham was best known as a founding member of the Ontario Mining Equipment and Services for Export (OMESE), which was establis…

Drilling is expected to resume shortly on Mountain Beaver Resources’ (CDN) Figuery base metal property near Amos, Que. The property contains the Figuery deposit which has preliminary reserves of 386,7…

Week’s Price (US) Change Gold* $336.90 – $1.30 Silver* $ 3.80 + $0.03 Platinum* $355.25 – $1.25 Nickel** $ 2.66 – $0.12 Lead** $ 0.21 – $0.02 Copper $ 1.02 $0.00 Zinc $ 0.49 – $0.01 Courtesy of Scotia…

Joseph Novak appointed president and director; Orville Page and Donald Beban appointed directors.

British Columbia’s Energy and Mines Minister Anne Edwards has delivered some good news to residents of Elk Valley: a firm offer to buy two coal mines left in limbo by the recent bankruptcy of Westar M…