Asarco plans more drilling for Taseko
A 12,500-ft. drill program is scheduled to begin in late May on Westpine Metals’ (VSE) Taseko copper-gold property, 140 miles north of Vancouver, B.C. The property is reported to contain preliminary r…
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People Triune Resources
Cindy Stevens appointed a director.
U.S. REPORT Low silver prices bring Callahan loss
Low silver prices are continuing to hurt Callahan Mining (TSE), with both its Galena and Coeur mines in Idaho operating at a loss. The company reported a loss of US$2.5 million for the year ended Dec….
Catear forfeits Goldwedge for failure to pay $45 fee
An unpaid $45 annual rental fee required to keep a mining lease in good standing triggered a chain of events that resulted in Catear Resources forfeiting the Goldwedge property in northwestern British…
Netolitzky’s role at Eskay prompted PKAC award
The annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) has many highlights for the mining industry. Among them is the presentation of the PDAC’s prestigious awards, which…
How `down-the-hole’ geophysics enhances drill-hole data
Drill core presents hard, irrefutable evidence of what lies beneath the earth’s surface, but the cross-sectional area of the core is tiny compared with the prospective area as a whole. Nevertheless, v…
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Black Swan deserves better
I note you published an article entitled “Black Swan Running In Red” (T.N.M., March 4/91). While I cannot argue with the facts which you set out in the article, I strongly disagree with your interpret…
NO HEADLINE (March 25, 1991)
TEXT: Local mining analysts are not expecting 1991 to be a banner year for exploration in British Columbia. The general economic downturn, the gutted flow-through financing mechanism, bearish equity …
Juniors struggle to raise necessary financing
Junior mining companies in Canada, slowed by a slumping economy, can only look back fondly at the heady days of the late 1980s when financing for exploration programs was readily accessible. Flow-thro…
Curragh muscles into big league of integrated zinc producers
With a reduction of 60% in U.S. zinc smelter capacity during the last 25 years there has been a consolidation in the industry favouring the integrated producer, the enterprise that mines, smelts, refi…
Crown sticks with exploration as best route to growth
Exploration-oriented juniors which make the transition to gold producers without stumbling are few and far between. Crown Resources (VSE) is something of an anomaly, in that the company has yet to suf…
People Kootenay King Resources
Darrell Curtis appointed a director succeeding Laurence Sookochoff who resigned.