Short of cash and under threat of takeover, Toronto-based McFinley Red Lake Mines (TSE) is looking around for a joint venture partner to assist in completing a bulk sample at its Bateman Tw gold proj…
A week of directionless trading was capped with a small 2.61-pt loss which moved the composite index to 3622.13 pts. Rising interest rates have dampened investor enthusiasm which was reflected in toda…
Buoyed by good results from recent diamond drilling on the Sheep Creek copper project in Montana, Cominco Resources International (TSE) is accelerating its $1.4 million 1989 exploration program. The p…
Ontario mines will face some heavy expenditures this year when senior levels of government require them to begin a more intensive program of monitoring waste water discharged into lakes, rivers and st…
Milling operations at the Hope Brook Gold (TSE) mine in Chetwynd, Nfld., resumed recently after the company completed modifications to its effluent treatment facilities. But general manager Bill Fothe…
Mixed trading characterized the week on the ME, with a province- wide power failure slowing activity considerably on one trading day. The Monday morning blackout prevented the exchange from functionin…
Zinc ore production from the crown pillar at the Chisel Lake mine in Snow Lake, Man., has hit its scheduled pace. Owner and operator Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting (TSE) reached planned production rates…
(Editor’s note: The following is the second of a 2-part series on platinum group metals. The first part, published last month, focused on palladium.) The four other platinum group metals (pgm) — rhod…
Just when it seemed gold was firming up nicely, the yellow metal backed off several dollars at press time and effectively put the damper on hopes gold issues would soon get off the back burner. Base m…
N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (in US cents per lb.) Mar145.00 140.70 144.60 — 5.50 May138.50 133.50 138.30 — 5.70 Jul132.00 126.60 …
Drilling on targets near old workings has resumed at the Normetal zinc-silver property in Perron and Desmeloizes twps. in northwestern Quebec, Normetal Mining Exploration (ME) and La Sarre Mining Expl…
Agnico-Eagle — M. Drutz bought 36,000 (Dec., Jan.) @ $11.63-$12.88 to hold 37,000. Atlantic Goldfields — Waverley Asset Mgmt sold 1,836,000 (Feb., private) @ $1.10 to hold 568,233. Belmoral — Belmo…
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