The Mineral Development Agreement (mda) between the governments of Canada and British Columbia is at the mid-point of its 5-year (1985-1990) term. It is, therefore, a natural time for review. Briefly,…
Profits keep climbing for Lornex Mining Corp., which reports 1987 earnings of $44 million, or $5.32 per share, up 61% from $27.3 million or $3.30 per share in 1986. Revenue rose to $209.3 million from…
The level of exploration activity in British Columbia was up sharply last year, according to the B.C. & Yukon Chamber of Mines. Charles A. Aird, president, told the chamber’s annual meeting that 1987 …
Joint venture partners Amir Mines, Normine Mines and Glamis Gold have agreed to form a new operating company, Idaho Gold Corp., to develop two Idaho heap leach properties. The new company will be own…
A joint venture agreement between Pacific Sentinel and Homestake Mineral Development gives the latter the right to earn a 60% interest in the Churchill gold project located 38 miles west of Churchill,…
OK Tedi Mining Limited has been dogged by misadventure. No one foresaw the hazards of building a mine so inaccessible, cursed by such a wretched climate, with an annual rainfall of eight to nine metre…
What the Northwest Territories lack in people is more than made up for in size and abundance of natural resources. The sparcely- populated territories, claiming some 34% of Canada’s land mass, played …
A successful 10-hole drill program has been completed by High River Resources at Nor-Acme Mines’ former producing property near Snow Lake, Man. The mine is being dewatered prior to continuing explorat…
On a fall day in 1960, two prospectors were tracking an iron formation through dense, soupy fog on the undulating barren lands near Henik Lakes in the Northwest Territories, about 200 km inland from E…
Two Vancouver-based companies, Bishop Resources Development and Mintek Resources, which are in the process of merging have re- opened a small silver-gold-lead-zinc mine near Smithers, B.C., which last…
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market 101.00 cents – 105.00 cents per lb. (Feb 25, 1988). ANTIMONY: New York dealer $1.09-$1.15 per lb. (Feb 25, 1988). BISMUTH: New York dealer $5.60-$5.75 per lb. (Feb 18, 1988). …
The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (pdac) has chosen a timely theme for its convention in Toronto this year: Financing — the key to new mines. With the future of flow-through financ…
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