Thermal Exploration (ASE) has reached an agreement with a syndicate led by geologists Terry Heard and Mike Duggan to acquire a 70% interest in 97,000 acres near the Lac de Gras, N.W.T., diamond discov…
Exploration is risky business. Take Calpine Resources’ famous hole 109 drilled in 1989 at Eskay Creek. International Corona later did more drilling to test this target located separate from and in a l…
Except for zinc, first-half May average metal prices continued to be swayed by ongoing uncertainty with worldwide political and economic events. Questions regarding future export levels from the forme…
Gem-quality diamonds recovered from a kimberlite pipe in the Lac de Gras region of the Northwest Territories indicate that Dia Met Minerals (VSE) and BHP-Utah Mines may be sitting on Canada’s first di…
A surface exploration program is being planned by Teck (TSE) for its recently optioned Mount Alcock project, 23 km from Ware in northern British Columbia. The major elected to exercise an option to ea…
Although Curragh Resources (TSE) will likely survive the Westray coal mine disaster in Nova Scotia, it will emerge from the wreckage with a severely damaged reputation in the eyes of investors and cre…
Lighter than air and colorless, methane is abundant in nature. It is the main component of natural gas and it is a common accompaniment of coal. While the gas is typically odorless, the commercial pro…
A phase-three, 2-hole drilling program on Fort Knox Gold Resources’ (TSE) Fawcett Twp. property near Shining Tree, Ont., has returned weak copper-nickel mineralization from the south grid. Hole SG-12 …
A slight decline in metal prices in March didn’t prevent Scotiabank’s commodity price index from recording a small gain of 0.8%. Stronger forestry prices and a small gain in energy prices offset decli…
Gold prices have dropped partly because of dumping on the world market, including by the owners of the fraud-riddled Bank of Credit and Commerce International, says Cambior (TSE) President Louis Gigna…
Since the May 9 Westray mine disaster at Plymouth, N.S., rocked the nation, there has been no shortage of critics to say the mine should never have been opened. Everyone is suddenly an expert who beli…
The article “Canada has dismal record for return on gold” (T.N.M., March. 30/92) by Virginia Heffernan caused me to shake a negative head and pick up pen. Although I was weaned (1934-36) as a sampler …
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