The Estrades orebody in northwestern Quebec is a gold-rich, polymetallic massive sulphide deposit occurring within the Casa Berardi Fault zone. Although it exhibits characteristics similar to Kuroko-a…
Minpro Ltd. has installed Ecuador’s first modern gold-processing plant. The 120-tonne-per-day mill, shipped in modules from the company’s Mississauga factory, will be treating a rich gold ore. Among t…
I would like to draw your attention to a regular column that we initiated with the June issue and that will become a fixture within these pages. We have called the column “Habitat,” which, to risk sta…
An outbreak of alcoholic neuritis in northwest England in 1900, as recorded by Dr. Ernest Reynolds in the British Medical Journal on Nov. 24 of that year, changed the way toxic hazards are regulated. …
The need to protect groundwater resources from the contaminating effects of toxic liquids has created a thriving market for the manufacturers of synthetic, “impermeable” geomembranes. Miners seeking t…
NOT A STRIKE IN CANADA A most significant announcement has been made by the Dept. of Labour in Ottawa, which reports that there was not a single strike or lockout in progress in Canada at the end of J…
A provincial court has ruled that negligent management and improper maintenance procedures caused a spill of contaminated uranium mine water at Rabbit Lake, Sask., on Nov. 6 and 7, 1989. During a peri…
Software system manufacturer Jonas & Erickson has appointed Robert Garbutt to the position of president and chief executive officer. Garbutt was recently senior vice-president at MAI Basic Four in the…
Toronto-based Black Hawk Mining (TSE) says it has acquired all the outstanding shares of First China Capital whose main asset is the Union nickel-copper deposit in the state of Maine. Based on 170 dri…
The high-profile Eskay Creek gold region of northwestern British Columbia continues to attract more junior companies. One of the latest newcomers is Tyrae Resources, which following a recent change of…
A new drilling campaign has started on the Douay gold property owned by joint venture partners Inco (TSE), Societe d’Exploration Miniere Vior (ME) and Cambior (TSE). The property is in the Casa Berard…
It appears that Southern Arizona Mining and Smelting’s bid for a 50% interest in the Chester Twp. gold property near Gogoma, Ont. is in jeopardy. James Hunter, a shareholder of property owner Gold Bar…
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