Scintilore, Trio Gold acquire Nevada claims
Joint venture partners Scintilore Explorations (TSE) and Trio Gold (ASE) have acquired more claims adjacent to their Rodeo Creek property on Nevada’s Carlin gold trend. The partners have jointly acqui…
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Editor’s Note BLESSING OR CURSE?
Canada’s hardrock mineral wealth has been both blessing and curse. Blessing, because it nurtured and sustained this country through childhood and early adolescence. Curse, because our resource riches …
Murgold, Chesbar pleased with test
Testing of 10,856 tons of stockpiled material from the Chester Twp. gold project southwest of Timmins, Ont., confirmed the material is amenable to gold recovery by gravity flotation methods, Murgold R…
Nerco drilling War Eagle bet
An affiliate of Nerco Inc. (NYSE) has completed four reverse circulation holes on the War Eagle Mountain gold-silver property within the Owyhee trend of southwestern Idaho. War Eagle Mining (VSE), whi…
Noranda to explore Teddy Bear/Lightval gold properties
After being left without a senior partner when Newmont Exploration suspended its Canadian operations earlier this year, Toronto-based Teddy Bear Valley Mines (COATS) and sister company Lightval Mines …
Profile ENGINEERING CHALLENGES
For a man who left school 23 years ago without knowing quite what he wanted to do with his life, James Wade has come a long way in the mining industry. At the age of 48, he has succeeded in parlaying…
TSE Short Positions (October 02, 1989)
Semi-monthly report as of Sept. 15 showed 33,041,132 shares of 613 issues compared with 30,170,240 shares of 607 issues on Aug 31. Larger individual positions included: Agnico-Eagle — 65,900; Amer. B…
Shamrock defines targets on Adams Lake property
Vancouver-based Shamrock Resources (VSE) has completed preliminary exploration and geophysical surveys on its Blom and Cana claims in the Adams Lake Plateau area of British Columbia. “A follow-up prog…
Cross-Cuts KERR ADDISON
The Kerr Addison mine, a prolific gold producer near Virginiatown, Ont., that yielded more than 10 million ounces in a half-century of production, finally has given up what looks to be its last ounce….
Rainbow prepares to drill old McMillan mine project
Calgary-based Rainbow Exploration (ASE) is preparing to begin surface and underground drilling at the old McMillan gold mine property in Mongowin Twp., 75 km southwest of Sudbury, Ont. An independent…
SILIDOR
To illustrate how utterly simple the discovery of a mineral deposit can be, one would be hard-pressed to find a better example than the Silidor gold mine, born in 1985. Neither high-tech geochemistry …
Computers AUTOMATED DRAFTING
Canadian mines are lagging behind their Australian counterparts in the application of software for personal computer-based surveying, geological mapping and mine-planning. But mine operators in this c…