Taking advantage of recent changes in Mexican mining law, Silver Standard Resources (VSE) has acquired an option to purchase the Mexican owner of the La Choya gold property in northern Sonora, Mexico….
Trading activity in 1990 on the Vancouver Stock Exchange was up slightly from 1989 in a year of mixed activity which witnessed strong trading volumes and values during the first seven months and a ste…
The total price to buy the interest of Cambior (TSE) in the Douay gold exploration project in the Casa Berardi region of Quebec is $750,000 plus shares of the junior mining company involved in the ven…
Analysts who had predicted that the price of gold would stage a sharp rally after the Jan. 15 United Nations deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait proved to be right on the money. As stock markets…
The case of Matachewan Consolidated Mines is one that the mining industry in Ontario is going to be watching closely. How far the government goes in applying the Environmental Protection Act to Matach…
A recent joint- venture agreement executed by a U.S. subsidiary of Mountain West Resources (VSE) will provide funds for continuing exploration of the Elkhorn gold project about 20 miles south of Helen…
Kewagama Gold Mines (Quebec) (ME) recently concluded a financing agreement (subject to regulatory approval) whereby a private investor will fund $150,000 worth of exploration work in return for 500,00…
Calling all Irish geologists and mining engineers! Mary-Claire Ward is looking for Irish exiles who would be interested in getting together with visiting members of the Geological Survey of Ireland at…
Newfoundland has doubled its tax on mineral holdings to encourage exploration on land not being worked. Beginning this month, the province is charging groundholders an impost of $6 per hectare, up fro…
Financing for the construction of the Castle Mountain heap leach gold mine in San Bernardino Cty., Calif., is near at hand for Viceroy Resources (TSE). The company secured a credit facility with N.M. …
Trading during the first days of the new year was off to an inauspicious start, with the general market portfolio index slipping by more than 21 points for the week ended Jan. 8. The mining and minera…
During the years 1917-1920, Randolphe William Diamond developed a new process for ore separation known as differential froth flotation that unlocked the treasures of the Sullivan zinc-lead-iron sulphi…
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