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Letters to the Editor Confused about amalgamation

Will someone please explain what is going on, to an ignorant, uneducated holder of many Canadian mining stocks? First, an article in The Northern Miner (April 11/88), stating that a huge new corporati…


Central Crude play paying off for Noranda

If Richard Nemis was a little overexuberant in his analysis of Central Crude Ltd.’s (VSE) achievements in the Mishibishu, Ont., gold camp, no one at the company’s annual meeting could really have blam…


Editorial True picture of a mining town

The image presented of mining, particularly on that most powerful of all mediums, television, is all too frequently a negative one, focusing often enough on hard issues such as accident rates, environ…


Hudson Bay’s Ruttan mine on hold as strike called

Operations at Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting’s (TSE) Ruttan copper mine at Leaf Rapids, Man., are at a standstill after 330 employees called a strike at midnight, May 31. In the latest setback for the…



Free trade, a hot topic at Mineral Outlook ’88

Although most tariff barriers between Canada’s mineral producers and mineral buyers in the U.S. are already relatively low, the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) has come out strongly in favor of the…


Brex, Mirandor on ME

Two Ariel group companies, Brex Exploration of Montreal, Que., and Mirandor Exploration of Val d’Or, Que., were recently listed for trading on the Montreal Exchange (symbols BX.A and MIQ.A, respective…


Correction (June 06, 1988)

A bulk sampling program at the Theresa gold property near Longlac, Ont., will mine out up to 3,000 tons of rock for testing, partners Duration Mines (TSE) and Locator Explorations (VSE) say. In last w…


Montreal Exchange Market aims higher

A quiet market this week — volume slipped to 2.6 million shares one day — suddenly turned bullish on the final day of our report period, with the market portfolio gaining more than 39 pts and the mi…


Mascot reports operating profit

The Nickel Plate mine of Mascot Gold Mines (TSE) reported an operating profit of $8.3 million for the quarter ended March 31. During that period, Mascot paid off $10 million of its gold loan, equivale…


Cadmium a player in heated market

Firmness in the market for cadmium is being sustained by strong demand from the makers of nickel- cadmium batteries, Roskill of London reports in a new study on the metal. In the longer term, however,…



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