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In the fall of last year, an A.C.A. Howe company, Ateba Mines of Toronto, started screening and sorting old mine dump material grading as low as 0.01 oz gold per ton. This material, from the old North…

The inappropriately-named Nickel Plate Mountain is a goldbug’s dream. Placer gold first drew miners to the area near Hedley, B.C., in the 1860s. Later, lode-type gold brought the miners back to the ar…

If there are two parties to an agreement, whether or not they have equal interests, decisions will either be unilateral or they will be unanimous. There is no in-between. So in these circumstances, wh…

Pincock, Allen & Holt, a major international consulting and engineering firm in Lakewood, Colo., has introduced two new additions to its line of mining software. Opcost provides detailed and summarize…

The first commercial production of refined antimony in Canada will take place within the next few months. The metal will be produced by Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada in its antimony ref…

At first glance, Greg has it made. He has a good job in his chosen field and makes lots of money. He has a wife and family and lives in a nice house, which is almost paid for. He has what virtually e…

Exploration on Audrey Resources’ Mobrun deposit started with a big splash — a public announcement in late 1985 that Audrey and Corporation Falconbridge Copper (since renamed Minnova Inc.) would spend…

One of the first new mines to come into production last year was D’Or Val Mines’ Beacon mine, east of Val D’Or, Que. It cost this Hughes-Lang company $35 million to bring the mine into production last…

The Star Lake gold mine represents the first such mine in Saskatchewan in more than 40 years. Although small in both reserves and milling rate, the high grade operation combined with relatively simple…

Ontario’s first zinc mine since the Kidd Creek operation came into production in the 1960s should be in full production by the end of the first quarter. Minnova decided late in 1986, shortly after the…

Production is slated for August, 1988, at Les Mines Casa Berardi, the name given to the first new gold mine in this camp, which opened up only seven years ago. That’s when Inco and Golden Knight disco…

Gold’s dominance as the preferred target of exploration and development over the past few years has resulted in a sharp increase in gold production for many countries outside of South Africa. This is …