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In a bid to move its Saskatchewan gold deposits closer to production, Golden Rule Resources (TSE) has agreed to purchase the Jolu mine and mill assets near La Ronge, Sask., for $786,000. Owned by a 70…

Drilling on the Casino copper-gold project in southern Yukon returned a number of wide intersections for owners Casino Silver Mines (VSE) and Big Creek Resources (VSE). Big Creek is earning a 50% work…

Ron Orr and Fred Scholz appointed directors.

Hugh Mogensen appointed director.

When it comes to passing judgment on companies’ management, shareholders have a habit of voting with their feet. If they don’t like the way things are done, they walk away. They don’t have much choice…

Art Reitmeyer, Robert Ingram, Roy Gardner and Nestor Stadnyk appointed directors.

C. Edington and Robert Young appointed directors.

More than US$440,000 has been spent by a unit of Kennecott during the past 18 months on exploration of the lead-zinc-silver Parranda Manto project at Chihuahua, Mex., Kalahari Resources (VSE) reports….

Well known mining engineer Richard (Dick) Murphy, long associated with the Newmont mining organization, has died at the age of 86 following a lengthy illness. A 1927 graduate of Harvard University and…

It was not a great week for the precious metals gold and platinum. The former fell by almost $10 while the latter succumbed to the protests of striking workers in South Africa. Although the gold price…

William McConnachie appointed director.

More and more miners are crossing the picket line at the Giant gold mine near Yellowknife, N.W.T., where a labor dispute has kept most union workers off the job since May of this year. The dispute ran…