The winter exploration program has been completed at the Eskay Creek project of Calpine Resources (VSE) and Consolidated Stikine Silver (VSE) in northern British Columbia. But a $7-million follow-up p…
Earnings per share for Rio Tinto Zinc Corp. (RTZ) — the world’s largest and second most profitable mining company — are expected to grow 13% this year, according to broker Shearson Lehman Hutton Sec…
Trading was light and mining stocks slid as the market passed another dismal week with investors steering well clear of mining issues. Sindor Resources traded in the $1.22-$1.18 range. Sindor is anxio…
The latest issue of Forbes Magazine, one of the most widely- read U.S. business publications, contains a scathing attack on the Vancouver Stock Exchange that is unprecedented in its ferocity and lack …
Toronto-based Dumagami Mines (TSE) may have opened the door to a settlement with a group of disgruntled shareholders by postponing until June 21 a law suit against Jacques Forget and his investment fi…
Researchers will study ways to safely and economically salvage some of the 800,000 tonnes of ore that remain in the underground pillars of the Nanisivik lead-zinc mine on Baffin Island. Such a project…
With drill results still awaited from a new nickel-copper play near Lac St. Jean, Que., the share prices of several juniors holding property there have faded from earlier levels. Last fall, important…
Price Week’s ($US) Change($) Gold* 362.50 –11.20 Silver* 5.17 –0.33 Platinum* 486.25 –36.65 Nickel** 5.60 — 0.64 Lead** 0.30 + 0.01 Co…
To say the Wellgreen polymetallic sulphide project in the Yukon has its skeptics is something of an understatement. A subsidiary of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting is said to have lost about $20 million …
A comprehensive copper industry multi-client study was recently released by consulting firm Pincock, Allen & Holt, Inc. of Colorado. The primary supply study contains production cost estimates for mor…
The metals sector took a double- barrelled blast from plummeting gold and copper prices. The gold and silver index lost another 37.77 pts to close at 5254.69 pts whereas metals and minerals managed a …
One is well advised not to look a gift horse in the mouth. So it may not be wise to criticize the Ontario government’s latest budget for the $5 million allocated to various programs, already in place,…
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