Gold production at Placer Dome’s Sigma mine at Val d’Or, Que., is expected to be about 67,600 oz. in 1990, down slightly more than 1,500 oz. from 1989 production. Last year, the mine’s mill underwent …
Geophysical anomalies on the Captain base metal property 50 miles south of Bathurst, N.B., will be the target of a 1-rig drilling program by earn-in partner Consolidated Rhodes Resources (VSE). Rhodes…
To boost reserves at its 65% owned Golden Patricia mine, near Pickle Lake, Ont., LAC Minerals (TSE) is busy completing a US$1.7-million exploration program at the site this year. The Toronto-based com…
Info-Stop Communications Inc. has changed its name to Alpha Gold Corp. (ALQ:VSE) with no consolidation of capital.
Junior mining company Ressources Val d’Or (ME) plans to transfer its rights to 80% of the Vendome zinc project in the Val d’Or area of Quebec to private firm Bullion Monarch Canada Resources. The new …
Mining, and especially mining- related activities, are an expanding contributor to the economy of the Rouyn-Noranda district in Quebec, where minerals worth some $365 million were produced in 1989. Th…
MacIsaac Mining and Tunnelling Co., a privately held Sudbury, Ont., firm that specializes in shaft sinking, has built an enviable reputation among mining contractors since it was founded in 1947 by cu…
Murray Pezim may have had his wings clipped to some extent by an investigation into trading activity involving some of his companies. But the Vancouver promoter obviously hasn’t lost his sense of timi…
The Soviet mining industry says it is open to offers from its western counterparts to generate new mining projects, update antiquated mining technology and reclaim metal from waste. At an east-west st…
Mining engineers at the junior and middle management levels these days are products of the late 1960s and ’70s. In earlier days, all engineers at some time worked in gold mines, large and small. With …
Rhodium will probably be upgraded to primary metal status as a result of this year’s surge in the rhodium price. At least two new mines in South Africa will probably concentrate on rhodium rather than…
A new $24-million plant to treat refractory gold ores from Placer Dome’s (TSE) Campbell Red Lake mine at Balmertown, Ont., will result in the elimination of sulphur dioxide gas emissions from the site…
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