Excited investors continued wheeling and dealing at a feverish pace in the Val d’Or triplets — Aur Resources, Louvem Mining and St. Genevieve Resources. The rush to buy shares was sparked two weeks a…
Analysts called for a fairly strong first half for copper and, despite a tumble to the $1.10-$1.20(US) per lb range, the base metal has not disappointed. To the first of June, copper in London average…
Numerous changes have been made to the E zone mine conveyor belt system after an underground fire in 1987 left one miner dead and cast grave doubts over the mine’s future. The blaze broke out April 1,…
Modifications at the Fort Saskatchewan nickel refinery to permit the processing of off-specification feed materials have been completed, Sherritt Gordon (TSE) reports. Feed from supplier Inco Ltd.’s (…
I would like to comment on some of the information presented in “King of Zinc,” the story on the Brunswick No. 12 mine (see April issue). The first is the statement on the “abstract nature of the geol…
Buffeted by market conditions and copper prices, copper mining on Quebe c’s Gaspe Peninsula has had ups and downs over the years. One of the bleaker periods in the history of Gaspe Mines, Noranda Mine…
No one wishes a war, certainly not Canadians. But it would be folly, in any appraisal of the present situation, to ignore how developments in Europe (namely, preparations for another crisis) might aff…
By the adding of a third converter, and by dint of new efficiencies throughout the plant, Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting will raise its capacity to about 5,200 from the present 4,700 tons a day. This 50…
Not long ago, the Island Copper mine on Vancouver Island had faced a 1992 deadline for closing. Fortunately, its lease on life has been extended to 1996 because of an imaginative new mining plan. The …
Project operator Imperial Metals Corp. (TSE) has started a major work program which is expected to lead to a full feasibility study for the Mt. Polley copper- gold deposit near Williams Lake, B.C. Mt….
Gold output at the Kettle River project of Echo Bay Mines (TSE) and Crown Resources (NASDAQ) is expected to reach about 110,000 oz in the first year, 33,000 oz of that total accruing to Crown Resource…
Believing that its CNE base metal deposit in New Brunswick can be developed as a low-cost open pit mine, Stratabound Minerals (ASE) has applied to the provincial government for permission to take a bu…
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