International Gold updates reserves at Bibiani
Following the completion of a feasibility study at its Bibiani gold project in Ghana this summer, International Gold Resources (TSE) has completed an additional 100 drill holes and recalculated reserv…
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Argosy drops Dunka Road prospect
Argosy Mining (VSE) has dropped its option on the Dunka Road copper-nickel deposit in Minnesota in favor of advancing its epithermal deposits in Central Europe.The company held an option to earn a 60%…
Coeur to acquire gold producer
Coeur d’Alene Mines (NYSE) recently acquired an option to earn a 20% interest in Australian-based Gasgoyne Gold Mines and is now planning to make a takeover bid for all that company’s issued shares.Am…
Gold mineralization intersected at Winteroad
Two drill holes at the Winteroad property of Patrician Gold Mines (ASE), east of Matheson, Ont., have intersected gold mineralization in quartz-carbonate veins.The highest-grade intersection in hole Q…
Murgor continues work in Barry Twp.
In Ontario, diamond drilling is under way on the Barry Twp. property of Murgor Resources (VSE).The first phase of the winter program consists of systematic, shallow drilling of the gold showing, where…
Canyon gains gold property in Brazil
Canyon Resources (NASDAQ) has extended its option on several mineral concessions in Brazil’s eastern Amazon region.The decision follows the acquisition, by Toronto-listed Golden Star Resources, of a 1…
Labrador featured at student symposium
Exploration in Labrador and Greenland will be the subject of a one-day symposium to be held January 26, 1996, in Toronto.The University of Toronto chapter of the Society of Economic Geologists is orga…
New device aimed at improving recovery
U.S.-based Mineral Recovery Systems has unveiled a centrifugal jig aimed at increasing gold recovery.By distributing a fine slurry feed over the rotating jig bed, the device is able to capture extreme…
Odds ‘n’ Sods — Caught in the act of high-grading in the ’30s
Living in northern Ontario or Quebec during the “Dirty Thirties” had its compensations. It was one of the few places where manual jobs were occasionally available, thanks largely to the demand for wor…
Mining industry to protect habitat
Canada’s mining industry will join forces with agricultural producers and non-government groups to develop and implement policies and actions to conserve endangered species.Environment Canada official…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR — Concerns over nuclear waste are greatly exaggerated
I am writing in response to your article on nuclear waste disposal (“Waste disposal concept to undergro scrutiny,” in T.N.M., Dec.18/95), which should be compulsory reading for anyone who wants to kno…
Major General expands gold zone in Newfoundland
Drilling near Green Bay, Nfld., has enabled Major General Resources (VSE) to expand a recently discovered gold zone.The structure has an average width of 1.3 metres and a grade of 6 grams per tonne ov…