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“There is no better place to look for ore than right in your own back yard,” says Paul Penna, who is arranging $3.5-$4 million in new financing for a new underground program at the Cobalt area silver …

Encouraging results have been had in the extensive drilling campaign underway at the Rouyn, Que., property of Senator-Rouyn Ltd., according to W. A. Gamble who is in charge of operations. Interesting …

Dr Owen White, of the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines has been elected to a 4-year term as president of the International Association of Engineering Geology. The iaeg is an associat…

Potash was the name given to the evaporation residue from water leac hing of wood ash. The element potassium was first prepared in 1807 by Sir Humphrey Davy using electrolysis. Today potash is the ter…

Norex Resources recently acquired all the shares of Triweb Resources for a purchase price of $4 million. Triweb has a working interest in reserves of 860,000 bbl of oil, 16 million cu ft of gas and 16…

From an address by Walter Curlook, Chairman of The Mining Association of Canada, at the Association’s annual meeting in Ottawa: We in the mining industry can show that productivity improvement and saf…

The Randol Gold Forum 88 is scheduled to take place in Yuma, Ariz., on Jan 23-24, 1988. The conference is the fifth on the subject by Randol International, and celebrates the 10th anniversary of the c…

Cove Energy Corp. recently announced several corporate developments including options on two former precious metals producers near Nelson, B.C., a private placement with a European financial instituti…

With half the world’s potash reserves on tap, enough to supply the world’s needs for the next few millenia, you’d think Canada’s potash industry would be able to sit back and take the long view. Inste…

Gerber Industries of Minnetonka, Minn., has designed a conveyor that it says simplifies maintenance and improves ease-of-operation. The en masse conveyor features reduced noise, dust, maintenance and …

When you look for trends in an industry, the lea ders are often the b ig guys. Well, by far the biggest open pit mining operations in this country are Alberta’s oil sands operations north of Fort McM…

Relief from the crushing supply situation facing Canadian potash producers could come this year in the form of an “Act of God.” While the 6.7 million tonnes produced in Canada last year exasperated wo…