PEOPLE — ABSTRACT ENTERPRISES (December 15, 1997)
Glen MacDonald appointed director.
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Gold, some base metal output up in September
Canadian production of gold, nickel, refined zinc and iron ore rose between September 1996 and September 1997. However, output of copper, asbestos, lead, and silver dropped over the same period.The st…
Samex completes financing
Proceeds of a $1-million private placement will be used by Samex Mining (sxg-v) to continue exploration and drilling on the Santa Isabel project in Bolivia.The company recently closed a 2-million spec…
Gabriel expands resource at Romanian gold project
The Rosia Montana gold-silver project in Romania is shaping up as one of Europe’s biggest.Operator Gabriel Resources (GBU-T) reports that an independent estimate on Rosia Montana pegged inferred miner…
Fairmile expands Buffalo Valley resource — Echo Bay monitoring drill program at Nevada property
Fairmile Gold (FLA-A) has reported encouraging results from a reconnaissance drilling program at its Buffalo Valley gold project in Nevada’s Battle Mountain trend.Reconnaissance drilling expanded, fro…
Alto, Noront hit sulphides
Partners Noront Resources (NOT-V) and Alto Minerals (ATO-V) have intersected sulphides in two holes on their Windfall property, near Lebel-sur-Quvillon, in northwestern Quebec.Collared on a surface sh…
COMMENTARY — B.C.’s plan for the future
British Columbia’s mining industry has developed a proposal called Mining Jobs 2000, a plan whereby government and industry work together to achieve the goal of meaningful job creation.The government’…
FACTS ‘N’ FIGURES — Palladium demand on rise
Supplies of palladium in 1997 stand at 5.65 million oz., well short of the demand of 7.44 million oz., according to a report published by London-based metals trader Johnson Matthey.The study, entitled…
Armenian moly producer searching for partner
Armenia’s molybdenum industry is on the rebound , and the country’s largest producer is seeking a foreign partner to help finance and build a new processing plant.Moly in the country is produced chief…
Survey business about more than money
On November 28, the banks placed Aerodat, a well-known airborne geophysical surveying firm, into receivership. The extent of the damage to our industry was far-reaching in that people are out of work,…
OBITUARY — William Murray Telford
William Murray Telford, professor emeritus of mining engineering at McGill University, has died. He was 81.Born in Ottawa, Ont., Telford obtaining a degree in physics from McGill in 1939. At the outbr…
DIAMOND PAGE — Namco readies sea-floor crawler
Initial tests of the NamSSol seabed crawler in the North Sea have proven successful, reports Namibian Minerals (NMR-T).Certain modifications need to be made to the diamond mining vessel’s launch and r…