INAP seeks solutions to acid drainage
Six Canadian companies are spearheading an effort to help control acid drainage at mining projects.Majors Placer Dome, Inco, Noranda, Teck, Rio Algom and Falconbridge are among 17 companies that forme…
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Potash gets boost in Argentina
Argentina has been chosen as the site of a branch office of the Potash and Phosphate Institute of Canada.The new office, situated in Buenos Aires, is intended to improve access to South American marke…
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Akrokeri scoffs at takeover bid
The directors of Akrokeri-Ashanti Gold Mines (AAGM-C) are urging their shareholders to resist a takeover bid by a landscaping company.Akrokeri says the offer of one share of GDL Evergreen for seven Ak…
Plata prepares for production
Junior Plata Mining (PMT-A) and Chilean-based Explodesa could begin production at their Hualilan gold project in Argentina as early as spring 1999 if an ongoing feasibility study continues to produce …
Lac des les turns a profit
North American Palladium (PDL-T) has pocketed a small profit for the third quarter as a result of improvements in costs and productivity at the Lac des les palladium mine near Thunder Bay, Ont.The ju…
Western Pacific extends zone
Follow-up trenching has extended a copper zone at Western Pacific Gold’s (WPI-G) Mbetilonga porphyry copper-gold prospect in the Solomon Islands.The trenching was designed to continue testing the Hamb…
EDITORIAL & OPINION – COMMENTARY — Markets deter African investment
Investments in African mineral projects have fallen off, the chief reason being diminished confidence in emerging markets prompted by the collapse of the Asian market and current political and economi…
Bruneau wraps up prefeasibility study
Montreal-based Bruneau Minerals (BRM-M) has completed a positive prefeasibility study of its calcium carbonate deposit north of Lac St.-Jean, Que.Laval-based Gostat International oversaw the study, w…
SETTING NEW STANDARDS — Investor protection key to new guidelines
Higher disclosure standards among several changes advocated It was the stated goal of the Mining Standards Task Force to “enhance investor protection.” The mineral industry has debated the new proposa…
SETTING NEW STANDARDS — What’s at stake
Mining’s survival tied to public confidence and acceptance Statistics are poor tools for telling the story of mining’s enormous contribution to Canada. Numbers have little romance, and few Canadians a…
Careers (December 07, 1998)
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