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Bioleach Test Facility for B.C. Gold Project

A 60,000-gallon biological leach test facility will be built by Congress Operating Corp. and Giant Bay Resources (TSE) near Gold Bridge, B.C. The plant, which is expected to be in production this fall…


Moss Res. makes exploration plans

Exploration plans this year for Moss Resources (ASE) include further drilling to delineate reserves on the Kasagiminnis Lake, Randall Lake and Opapimiskan Lake properties, and comprehensive exploratio…


Shannon finances Tatsamenie program

Alberta-based Shannon Energy (ASE) has raised $700,000 through a number of flow-through share issues to finance exploration at the Tatsamenie property in northwestern British Columbia, the company sai…


Sinking resumes at Cigar Lake

Shaft sinking adjacent to the largest high grade uranium deposit in the world at Cigar Lake, Sask., should re-commence this week. Regina-based mining contractors Thysson Mining Construction of Canada …


Total Erickson/Agip suspend Mt. Skukum project

When the Mount Skukum mine officially opened in the summer of 1986, it was hailed with great fanfare as the Yukon’s first significant hard rock gold mine. Two years later, the internationally-backed c…


Grab Samples (August 15, 1988)

The federal government’s Export Development Corporation says its deal to insure Placer Dome’s investment in Papua New Guinea is its largest foreign investment deal ever. The insurance covers Placer’s …


Catear goes underground to prove up reserves

Some people like to do things the old fashioned way. And this probably explains the reasoning behind the current program at Catear Resources, (VSE) Goldwedge property, less than a mile from the Newhaw…


PDAC challenging federal grant incentive plan

The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) has expressed concern about the federal government’s new grant incentive program for mineral exploration on a number of issues. The program,…


Letters to the Editor Madeleine’s mystery mine

I write you because I am concerned with Madeleine Mines of which I possess 1,500 shares. I refer to two 1988 articles in The Northern Miner, one March 14, the other July 18. The first one mentioned th…



High pitch in profit for Battle Mountain

The profit song of Battle Mountain Gold (TSE) keeps taking on a new and higher pitch. The 3-year-old company reports record earnings in the second quarter and first half of this year, largely, its cha…


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