Encouraging assays from South Pipeline
Encouraging assay results were released by Royal Gold (NASDAQ) from the South Pipeline gold project in Nevada. The Denver-based company owns a 20% net profits interest in the property where a deeper h…
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NWMA winners
At the recent Northwest Mining Association conference held here, Amax Gold was the overall winner in the financial report competition. American Barrick Resources was honored for best annual report, Di…
BOOKS IN REVIEW — Lively chronology of a gold rush
Ontario’s First Gold Rush: Eldorado, by Gerry Boyce. Published by Natural Heritage/Natural History Inc. P.O. Box 95, Station O, Toronto, Ont. M4A 2M8. Few people realize that Ontario’s first gold rush…
PEOPLE — GOLD RESERVE (December 21, 1992)
Robert Turner appointed vice-president, mineral processing for Venezuela.
Nevada conference
The Sparks, Nev.- based Mining and Geothermal Committee will host a conference at the Nugget Hotel and Casino in Reno, Nev., March 11-13, 1993. Topics include the U.S. Mining Law and regulations perta…
Correction (December 21, 1992)
Consulting firm Pincock, Allen & Holt of Colorado was recently awarded a contract to design a restructuring program for Bolivian state-owned mining company COMIBOL. An earlier story (T.N.M., Dec. 7/92…
Lithoprobe has implications for mineral exploration
Lithoprobe, an integrated geoscience research program created in 1987, is providing new insights into mineral exploration in several mining camps in the Abitibi greenstone belt in Ontario and Quebec. …
Explosive land grab in N.W.T and Alberta
The area outlined for diamond exploration in the Northwest Territories and Alberta has grown to an estimated 50-75 million acres and there is no sign of a slowdown, local mining recorders say. At pres…
Neutrino lab requires own special shape
A unique local experiment in pure science could prove to have down-to-earth applications for operators of deep mines around the world, according to industry insiders here. For the past 32 months, mine…
Cons. Nevada eyes new properties
The objective of Peter Bojtos, president of Consolidated Nevada Goldfields (TSE), is to make his company grow through property acquisitions. Bojtos was in Toronto recently presiding over Consolidated …
NEWS ROUNDUP — Canmine continues Fer activity
A gravity survey and 6,600 ft. of drilling will be carried out in January, 1993, by Canmine Resources (CDN) on its 100% owned Fer polymetallic property near Flin Flon, Man. The program will be finance…
Nuinsco to acquire property
Exploration is set to resume on 35,000 acres of patented and unpatented claims south of Kenora, Ont., following an agreement-in-principle among Nuinsco Resources (TSE), Deak International Resources Ho…