Alberta Stock Exchange Ontex gains 43 cents
The share price of Ontex Resources rose 43 cents to $2.35 on volume of 72,500 during the week ended Oct. 30, while Avanti Capital, which owns 11% of Ontex, rose 5 cents to close at $2.65. An Ontario c…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Experts to give advice on Bill 208
Many of the provisions in Bill 208, Ontario’s new occupational health and safety law, will come into effect Jan. 1, 1991. Advisers from the government and the province’s top employers will give guidan…
Ramrod drilling Spanish property
A drilling program is under way on the Marta gold-silver property owned by Consolidated Ramrod (VSE) in northwestern Spain. The program is testing a gold-bearing quartz vein system known as Las Llagas…
NEWS IN BRIEF (November 05, 1990)
An information forum on professional registration of geoscientists will be held this month in three Ontario cities: Sudbury (Nov. 14, 8 p.m.), Timmins (Nov. 15, 7 p.m.) and Ottawa (Nov. 16, 1 p.m.). T…
Asamera gears up to increase work on Meliadine find
With assay results now in from a 14-hole drill program, Asamera Minerals (TSE) is busy planning an expanded 1991 exploration program for its new gold discovery near Rankin Inlet in the Northwest Terri…
Minnova, Kerr hit by Lac Shortt writedown
A $10 million writedown on the carrying value of the Lac Shortt gold mine in northwestern Quebec resulted in a $589,000 third-quarter loss for Kerr Addison Mines (TSE) compared with earnings of $5.6 m…
Practices in partnership
If a practice is so common within an industry that it is expe and widely accepted, it can be recognized by the courts as a custom of the trade and, in appropriate circumstances, enforced by the courts…
Northern alliance; Cominco’s Red Dog mine, in northwestern Alaska,
The Red Dog project in northwestern Alaska is something of an anomaly. It’s more than just one of the richest base metal mines in the world — it’s a socio-economic alliance between the native people …
Suppliers’ notes (November 02, 1990)
The administration and accounting operations of El-Equip Inc. have been moved to the company’s head office in Sudbury, Ont. The new address is 1078 Kelly Lake Rd., Sudbury, Ont. P3E 5P4. (Phone: 705-6…
Calendar (November 02, 1990)
Jan 14-15 or 17-18, Reno, Nev. Short Course on Fire Assaying. Contact Mining, Division of Continuing Education MS 048, University of Nevada, Reno, Nev. 89557-0024. Phone (702) 784-4046. Jan 14-16, Ren…
Gaining control
The trend to high-technology monitoring and control in minera processing has been heating up over the past few years. In fact, in a recent Statistics Canada survey, nearly 250 mines said they had adop…
Mining goes metropolitan
It is a rare sight — a 2-boom jumbo, longhole drills, and a tube-shaped electromagnetic device brightly clad in yellow sitting there at street level in downtown Toronto, dwarfed by a 50-storey office…