Northern Orion pours first gold
Northern Orion Explorations (NNO-T) poured its first bar of gold at the newly constructed leach facility at the Mantua mine, 240 km west of Havana, Cuba. The event marks the Vancouver-based junior’s f…
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Echo Bay defers payments
Echo Bay Mines (ECO-X) will defer cash payments on US$100 million in capital securities.The second semiannual payment on the securities, which were issued in March of last year, is due in October and …
Venezuelan congressman challenges Crystallex — Congressional committee offers papers to OSC
Calling the court actions launched by Crystallex International (KRY-T) “judicial privateering,” a Venezuelan congressman told an investment conference here that the company’s claims to legal title to …
Etruscan, Placer Dome hit more gold mineralization at Samira
Results from seven deep holes drilled at the Samira gold project in southwestern Niger have enabled partners Etruscan Resources (EET-T) and Placer Dome (PDG-T) to confirm the deposit’s continuity at d…
Convention expands despite industry slump — PDAC honors Rebagliati and Keevil at awards ceremony
While the delegates at the 66th annual Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention walked with less of a swagger and spoke with less bravado than in 1997, they nonetheless showe…
Antamina gets green light — But Inmet incapable of financing its full 50% interest
Partners Rio Algom (ROM-T) and Inmet Mining (IMN-T) have completed a positive feasibility study of the huge Antamina copper-zinc project in Peru.The fast-tracked study, compiled by Bechtel Internation…
Yorbeau explores in Casa Berardi
Montreal-based junior Yorbeau Resources (YRB.A-T) is poised to begin drilling on one of its three properties in the Casa Berardi area of northern Quebec.The 1,000 to 1,500-metre program in Beschefer T…
Phelps Dodge doubles size of Piedras Verdes deposit
Drilling has enabled Phelps Dodge (PD-N) to boost the copper resource at the Piedras Verdes project in Mexico’s Sonora state.The Phoenix, Ariz.-based producer, which holds a 70% stake in the project, …
CORRECTION (March 23, 1998)
Drilling by Battle Mountain Gold (BMG-N) at the El Cairo property in Mexico’s Durango state returned 613 ft. of 0.016 oz. gold and 640 ft. of 0.021 oz. gold. A story in our March 9-16, 1998 issue cont…
Silver Century aims drills at Quebec properties — Work follows discovery of high-grade copper
Toronto-based Silver Century Explorations (SVC-A) has resumed drilling on two copper properties northeast of Sherbrooke, Que.As part of an agreement to earn a 100% interest in the contiguous Stoke and…
EDITORIAL — We are, we are, we are, — you’re not — Campaign a low blow to geologists
Ontario’s engineers have returned their ballots in a referendum on changes to the Engineers’ Act. The changes provide for professional registration of geologists and geophysicists. If the engineers ap…
PEOPLE – TOTEM
Robert Woodfill, Joseph Montgomery elected directors.