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Silbak splitting into 2 companies

Shareholders of British Silbak Premier Mines recently voted to split the company in two, to create a resource company and a real estate company. Under the reorganization, all non-mining assets of the …


Dawson, Pacific reach agreement on silver bet

A $2.1-million joint-venture agreement has been signed between Dawson Eldorado Mines and Pacific Trans-Ocean Resources whereby Pacific may earn up to a 50% interest in the Plata-Inca silver project in…


Good grade is the key for new nickel mine

Canada’s newest nickel mine, in northern Manitoba, will be the first brand-new underground nickel mine in the country for close to a decade — and the third for Manitoba in the past 26 years. In an up…



Multinational at Toodoggone

Exploration work is under way at Multinational Resources’ Toodoggone area property north of Smithers, B.C. The first-phase program will include more than 5,000 ft of diamond drilling in the B zone to …



Letters to the Editor Media response needed

I enjoyed your June 22 editorial, Mining has a story to tell, perhaps because I wrote the words, but certainly because I believe in the message. So will any observer of the power of public opinion pol…


Old mine workings being investigated

An underground exploration program has been started on Canadian Gold Resources’ Kirkroyal property in Lebel Twp., near Kirkland Lake, Ont., the company reports. The program is being financed by Colray…


Stainless steel production boosts demand for nickel

Demand for nickel is running higher, buoyed by record production of stainless steel by many major producing nations, Shearson Lehman Securities (formerly L Messel & Co. reports in a recent weekly publ…


Three companies start program at B.C. gold bet

A major work program is under way at the Richfield gold property 25 miles north of Houston, B.C. Mountain West Resources, Sirius Resource Corp. and Esso Resources Canada are involved in the joint vent…


Sands seeks producer in southeastern Ont

Mechanical stripping and rock sampling is under way on the Ore Chimney mine property, located eight miles north of Kaladar, Ont. The program, financed by Sands Minerals Corp. of Toronto, is being done…


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