Big boost in reserves at New World
A successful 1990 drilling program at the New World project in Montana has enabled Crown Butte Resources (TSE) to report a substantial increase in preliminary reserves over those released at the end o…
News
Conwest income reflects lower zinc prices
For the first nine months of the year, Conwest Exploration (TSE) reported net earnings of $9.7 million (62 cents per share) compared with earnings of $12.2 million (93 cents per share) during the same…
COATS (over-the-counter) Golden hopes take shape
Heavy trading of Golden Hope Mines this week coincided with the company’s release of encouraging results from the Bellechasse gold project south of Quebec City. Grab samples laced with visible gold, i…
Crown optimistic about Pinon based on results from 18 holes
Results from the first 18 holes of a 30-hole program on the Pinon Range project have owner Crown Resources (VSE) optimistic about the property’s potential. Significant results from the program are lis…
Letters (December 07, 1990)
HOYLE POND’S GENESIS In the september, 1990 issue of the Northern Miner Magazine, the article entitled “Falco’s Golden Egg” refers to the Hoyle Pond discovery and states: “Gold was discovered in 1976 …
Garbage in, gold out
Take the computer chips from a truckload of seat belt alarms, run them through a shredder, and then roast them to 1,300deg C. What do you get? Aside from the worthless stuff, 80 oz. of pure platinum. …
Words, words, words
There is a mystique about the mining industry in the minds of laymen, due in large part to the specialized terminology of the industry. So it is with law. Certain lawyers preen themselves with the use…
Our Man At Thompson
Generally, little is heard of that other Inco — the nickel operations 400 air miles north of civilization and known as Thompson, Man. When it was announced in December, 1956 in The Northern Miner new…
The uniqueness of Eskay
Like the Hemlo gold deposits in Ontario, the Eskay Creek polymetallic deposits will be discussed by geologists for decades. Eskay Creek is a unique discovery, from both an academic and an economic poi…
Checking it twice
The computer was to have eliminated most of the memos, missives and managerial decrees that circulate within departments, between departments and from head office to the operating mine. The computer d…
Cross-Cuts (December 07, 1990)
HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE Ontario Mining Association Chairman Andy Rickaby, addressing a lunchtime crowd in downtown Toronto to kick off Ontario Mining Week (in mid-October), points out the uses to whic…
What’s new
North Safety Products Rexdale, Ont.-based North Safety Products is selling two new items: an improved Model 9880 air-purifying respirator and the LSF 2075 style full-body harness. The respirator is eq…