Canada increased its uranium production in 1986 to 30.4 million lbs U3O8 (up two million lb from 1985) and continued to lead the world in production, nuexco reports in its latest annual review. The co…
Everything seems to be coming up roses for Belmoral Mines. The Toronto-based resource company, which turned an annual profit for the first time in 1986, reports a first- quarter net income this year o…
Skeena Resources says encouraging results have been received from drilling by operator Noranda Inc. on the Schroeder Mountain area of the Maggie Creek Ranch property at Carlin, Nev. Skeena is in a joi…
Alberta-listed Bitech Energy Resources and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vancouver-listed Greenstone Resources have signed a formal joint venture agreement regarding the Tache property near Chibougamau…
A newly created, privately funded agency — the Mineral Technology Council of Canada — will act as an “information broker” for the mining industry in an attempt to match up the most promising researc…
The United Steel Workers of America has served 72 hr strike notice on Cominco Ltd. Shutdown of the company’s massive smelting and refining complex at Trail, B.C. was scheduled to begin Wednesday May 6…
A writer for The Northern Miner is the winner of one of a number of journalism awards presented at the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy annual general meeting. Staff writer Laima Dingwall w…
It was an impressive, even moving, sight at the awards dinner of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy to see the nearly three dozen men invited up to the head table to be honored for their …
It seems the suspense over Federal Finance Minister Michael Wilson’s tax reform proposals and whether or not he will make changes in flow-through share financing will not be too prolonged after all. …
It has been a while, but Vancouver-listed Stralak Resources is back in the news. This time it has entered into an agreement with a mining company in Mexico to acquire an interest, up to 49% over the n…
Golds picked up steam this week thanks to that on-again off-again U.S. dollar. An advance of 336.44 pts pushed the gold and silver index back above the 9,000 level to 9,233.24. On commodity markets go…
Reg. Resources Corp. says it plans a drill program this year on its Silverknife claims. These claims are located in the Liard Mining Division in northern British Columbia, contiguous to the Regional R…
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