Band-Ore keen on Thorne drill results
More encouraging drill results have been released from the Thorne property, west of Timmins, Ont., held by Band-Ore Resources (BAN-T).Most of the results are from infill holes drilled in the eastern p…
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Omni reports initial drill results from Skukum Creek property
Encouraging drill results are reported by Omni Resources (ORI-V) from the first three holes of an expanded program at its Skukum Creek property in the Mount Skukum area of southern Yukon.The 15-hole p…
Vedron drills hit gold near Timmins
For Vedron Gold (VDGI-M), Ontario’s Timmins gold camp still has the right stuff.At its wholly owned property in Tisdale Twp., the company is carrying out a 50,000-ft., 40-hole program aimed at testing…
Gold Reserve drills Las Brisas in Venezuela’s Km 88 district
By drilling outside the area of known mineralization, Gold Reserve (GLR-T) has located three significant finds at its Las Brisas gold deposit in the Kilometre 88 region of Venezuela.The program focuse…
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THE DIAMOND PAGE — Diavik partners report promising values
Partners Kennecott Canada and Aber Resources (ABZ-T) are encouraged by the latest drill results from their Diavik diamond project near Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories.A single, large-diameter…
EDITORIAL PAGE — The winds of change
In August of 1946, South African mine workers demanded and won a minimum wage of 10 shillings per day, which, to the best of our reckoning, works out to about $2. Then, in August of 1987, unionized mi…
Westmin goes west at Wolverine
Drilling on the Wolverine polymetallic deposit in southeastern Yukon is expanding the mineralized zone to the west, and, moreover, the zone appears to be thickening.Operator Westmin Resources (WMI-T) …
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Mines minister promotes Ontario at Minexpo trade show
A delegation led by Ontario Mines Minister Christopher Hodgson attended the recent Minexpo ’96 trade show in Las Vegas, Nev.Hodgson and representatives of mining equipment manufacturers promoted the a…
CIM to shed light on Huckleberry
The Vancouver branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum will host a presentation on Princeton Mining’s Huckleberry copper-molybdenum-gold-silver project, which is situated nea…
Cambior buys stake in Zappa
With financing in place, exploration will finally begin in earnest on a portfolio of Ecuadorean gold properties assembled more than three years ago by Zappa Resources (ZPA-V).Cambior (CBJ-T) has agree…