With economic ambiguity still the order of the day, nervous investors have been staying on the sidelines since the Oct 13 market drop. But this week’s small rally in gold prices did generate a new flu…
A symposium on 60 years of exploration in the polymetallic belt of northern Quebec will be held in Rouyn-Noranda, Que., May 28- June 1, 1990. It is sponsored by the geology division of the Canadian In…
The Institute of Mining and Metallurgy has released its new 1989/1990 publications catalogue, copies of which are now available free of charge to interested readers. The IMM is a professional associat…
During the gold boom which reached its peak in August, 1987, few juniors had the foresight to begin scouring the landscape for promising base metals properties. Copper was dead and not a soul in his r…
A group of four executives at Inco Ltd. (TSE) and Noranda Inc. (TSE) made substantial amounts recently by unloading some of their holdings in the Toronto-based resource companies. According to the Ont…
Two Canadian law firms which specialize in natural resources and other areas — Toronto-based Smith, Lyons, Torrance, Stevenson & Mayer and Vancouver-based Angus, McClellan, Rubenstein & Haslam — mer…
Development and mill construction of the Kirkham flake graphite project of Stewart Lake Resources (TSE) could be under way by mid-1990 and the mine in production by the end of that year. Annual output…
An underground exploration drift on Greenstone Resources’ (TSE) El Recio property in Costa Rica has yielded encouraging results in one of several veins being explored by the Toronto-based junior compa…
The Iskut River gold camp in northwestern British Columbia was upstaged late in the 1989 exploration season by the Unuk River camp about 25 miles away where Calpine Resources (VSE) made a significant …
Results from deep drilling by Noranda Inc. (TSE) on ground held in joint venture with Freewest Resources (ME) has sparked renewed interest in the Harker- Holloway area north of Kirkland Lake, Ont. Dri…
The open pit at Samatosum is located on the north slopes of Samatosum mountain at an elevation of about 1,400 m, 40 km from the town of Barriere in southern British Columbia. Harry Ewaschuk John Harve…
Your editorial of Oct 9 argues persuasively that tax legislation should be amended to ensure equitable treatment of mine reclamation costs. You may be interested to know that legislation passed in Bri…
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