NEWS IN BRIEF (May 04, 1992)
Delta Star Resources Inc. (DLS:VSE) has changed its name to Accord Financial Corp. with a consolidation of capital on a 1-new-for-5-old-share basis.
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Casa Berardi Est mine suspended
Operations at the Casa Berardi Est gold mine of TVX Gold (TSE) in northwestern Quebec were suspended recently after about 12,000 cubic metres of overburden flowed into the underground mine through a f…
GOLD FUNDS (May 04, 1992)
Gold Funds as of Apr. 28 BGR Central Net Value $7.54 $4.99 Price $6.00 $4.400 Discount 20.41% 11.8% Value $44,887,000 $74,026,920…
TSE STOCK EXCHANGE INDICES (May 04, 1992)
Composite “300” 3337.92 3326.45 3349.69 3371.47 3367.75 4009.47 3009.91 Metals&Minerals 2977.67 2976.85 2990.12 2991.22 2989.13 3453.06 2502.63 Integrated Mines 3160.78 3163.38 3176.46 3178.68 3176.07…
50 YEARS AGO (May 01, 1992)
VIOLA MACMILLAN HITS A HOMER A proposal by Mrs. George A. MacMillan, secretary of the Ontario Prospectors’ and Developers’ Association, to offer tax exemptions to corporations and individuals contribu…
FROM SUPPLY PACKER TO PRESIDENT
Colin Benner has been immersed in mining all his life. In fact, he was recruited by his prospector father at such an early age that skin tissue assays might yield fairly strong mineralization. Well –…
BIG FARO MILL FINE-TUNED FOR GRUM ORE
The Faro concentrator was initially a 5,000-tonne-per-day operation in the early 1970s. It has since been expanded several times so that today it can process 14,000 tonnes daily, which, says Ken Ball,…
CURRAGH TAPS ITS STABLE OF DEPOSITS
Curragh Resources and its Faro, Yukon, complex are in the midst of switching workhorses. Up until the past few years, the Faro deposit — in terms of draft horses, truly a Clydesdale — had fed the 4-…
OPEN PIT UNDERGROUND
In attempting to extract every last tonne of economic ore out of the ground, Curragh has driven into the wall of the Faro open pit. This underground mine has been going since 1990. The portal is situa…
NATIVE DEVELOPMENT
When Sa Dena Hes was launched with official fanfare last fall, a special ceremony, rare and probably unique in the annals of Canadian mining, caught the spotlight. The Kaska Dena nation bestowed on Cu…
WESTRAY’S LOW-SULHUR COAL
Curragh Resources’ Westray coal mine was officially opened Sept. 11, 1991. With hard-to-beat logistics and equipped as a brand new operation, Westray should be Nova Scotia’s most productive coal mine….
RE-GREENING THE ANVIL RANGE
Curragh Resources’ environmental people have shepherded approvals through the regulatory process several times now — for the Vangorda and Grum deposits two years ago, for Westray in Nova Scotia and f…