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A week-long symposium focusing on mineral exploration in the Abitibi region of Quebec attracted more than 400 delegates to this northern city. Hosts of the bilingual event, titled “Northwestern Quebec…

Now that a lengthy legal property ownership dispute has been resolved to the benefit of Freegold Recovery (VSE), an exploratory drill program has started on the company’s Slumbering Hill property near…

Although it was overshadowed by some verbal sparring at Northgate Exploration’s (TSE) recent annual meeting in Toronto, the first gold pour was expected to occur last week at the Colomac gold mine, no…

With a commitment to spend $6 million on exploration and development over a 3-year period, Southern Arizona Mining and Smelting (COATS) says it intends to form a joint venture with Gold Bar Resources …

The property would be a hard day’s ride from this hot, dusty town in an area steeped in the history of the American wild west. One would be hard pressed to find men to make that ride to the Dragoon Mo…

Net earnings of $1.7 million were reported by Granges (TSE) for the 1990 first quarter, compared with $655,000 for the similar period of the previous year. The jump in earnings was the result of an in…

Faced with mounting losses and a battered share price, Toronto- based Denison Mines (TSE) may be forced to divest more of its non- uranium assets in order to meet future financial obligations. The com…

Toronto-based International Platinum (TSE) has received a further $250,000 to finance exploration on the Duluth platinum project in Minnesota and the Goodfish gold property near Kirkland Lake, Ont. Th…

Westfield Minerals (TSE) appeared to bow to pressure from some minority shareholders when it agreed recently to commission an independent study into the sale of its mining assets to Northgate Explorat…

Intuition, rather than hard facts, more often guides mine operators in predicting the adverse effects blasts will have on mine excavations. But predicting blast-induced damage is slowly coming into it…

July 2-6, Edinburgh, Scotland. 14th Congress of the Council of Mining and Metallurgical Institutions. Organized by the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. Contact Secretary, Institution of Mining an…

Jerry Bell is a mechanical engineer who, for the past 16 years, has worked on the construction of coal-fired electric generating plants in Canada. Today he’s in charge of another such project, in Tren…