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The following criteria define a junior mining company: * Neither a producing company nor the recipient of significant income from production or from some other business venture. * Exploration funding …

It turns out that 1981 might have been a watershed for base metals. Up until then, Canada’s national reserves of the base metals had been on a steady upward path. According to figures compiled and p…

Last fall, 20 senior supervisors from Noranda Inc.’s operations across the country went through an intensive hoist maintenance course. For three days in Toronto and another day in Montreal, the group …

Gold production from Pioneer Metals Corp.’s new Puffy Lake mine, near Flin Flon, Man., was scheduled to reach 75% of design capacity by the end of 1987. By the end of this year, the $18-million underg…

In order to prove or disprove the bare possibility that a second sill exists below the one recently driven through, Northern Empire will diamond-drill vertically below the 1,700-ft horizon as soon as …

A few years ago, St. Joe Gold Corp. was spun off as a publicly traded company to oversee St. Joe Minerals’ (the parent firm’s) gold holdings in the Western Hemisphere. Overnight, St. Joe became a gold…

Emaco (Canada) has introduced the new AccuStar Clinometer. The unit is an electronic sensor that measures vertical angles. It is available as either an analog input/ output or digital input/output dev…

Here’s a curious twist. U.S. energy producers ear that “the Canadians” might grab a larger piece of the U.S. energy market. (This must be a reversal of the wolf sweeping down on the fold.) Their conce…

With the proliferation of flow-through financing, some exploration companies have found it nearly impossible to find a drill rig. In the winter drilling season last year, at least one junior company, …

It’s been a while coming, but it finally appears that this will be the year St Andrew Goldfields will put its Stock Twp. property into production. Reconnaissance surface drilling first identified the …

This is one of at least three mining projects in Canada that will be recovering gold from old mine tailings this year. Located in the biggest gold camp in the country, it is also the biggest and poten…

Although the company poured its first gold bar in June, 1986, Gordex Minerals of Saint John, N.B., had to find a technological fix to bring its small Cape Spencer gold mine officially into commercial …