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…
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Metals industry must compete in an active materials market
It won’t be an easy task but the metals industry can fight back in the marketplace. “Yes, but it’ll be tough,” George Jewett, of the Toronto consulting firm Jewett & Associates, told a luncheon meetin…
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…
Mining taxation
A one-day seminar, providing an update and overview of the taxation of the Canadian mining industry, will be offered May 5 at the Four Seasons Hotel (Yorkville), Toronto. Topics to be discussed includ…
Noranda, Placer both looking at Dome Mines shares
Noranda Inc. and Placer Development both admit they have an interest in the possibility of buying the shares of gold-producer Dome Mines held by Dome Petroleum, but neither Noranda nor Placer appear t…
CDDA meeting
The 44th annual meeting and convention of the Canadian Diamond Drilling Association (cdda) will take place April 29, 30 and May 1 at the Fantasyland Hotel in Edmonton, Alta. A varied agenda covering n…