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President bullish Lacana looks to a good year

He may be new to the job, but that’s no reason Gil Leathley should remain a stranger. The new president of Toronto-based Lacana Mining believes in getting out to meet his workers. “I spend about 40% o…


La Teko start

Development work has begun at La Teko Resources’ Ryan Lode heap leach project near Fairbanks, Alaska (N.M., Feb 16/87). The company hopes to produce 13,000 oz gold this season from agglomerated materi…



Break-neck activity keeps market hopping

For the third straight month, records were shattered on the Toronto Stock Exchange making March the all-time top month for both dollar value and share volume traded. Dollar value traded rose to a reco…


Canuc expects royalty income

Canuc Resources expects to start receiving royalty income from its uranium properties near Elliot Lake, Ont., by 1989. Sold to Denison Mines, the Canuc ground hosts drill-indicated reserves of 7-10 mi…


Storimin is set to resume work on Moss Twp. bet

Storimin Exploration says it will resume exploration immediately after breakup on its Moss Twp., Ont. gold prospect, about 70 miles west of Thunder Bay, where a 30,000-ft drill program has been comple…


Montreal Exchange Essor popular issue

Resource companies continue to be among the active leaders on the Montreal Exchange, where two of the mining stocks traded more than a million shares each during the past week. One of the firms, Essor…


Letters to the Editor Resents slur on Indonesians

I have had the article by Keith McCandlish (Odds ‘n Sods, Feb 23/87) on coal exploration in Indonesia pointed out to me. Only the threat, at the close of the article, that there might be more of this …


CFC changes corporate name to Minnova Inc.

Innovation in mining will characterize the new Corporation Falconbridge Copper, so the company has taken that phrase and fashioned a new name for itself — Minnova Inc. Since control of the company –…


Tragedy at Inco’s Levack nickel mine

Four miners, employees of Inco Ltd., have been killed underground at the company’s Levack nickel mine near Sudbury, Ont. Termed a “freak accident” by officals of the United Steel Workers of America, t…


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