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Drilling on the Meliadine gold property in the Northwest Territories has enabled 50-50 partners Comstate Resources (TSE) and Cumberland Resources (VSE) to define, more clearly, the extent of the depos…

While one drill focused on near-surface exploration on Eden Roc’s (TSE) Ivory Coast property, a second has been defining the Brahima deposit in preparation for mining startup this fall. The Brahima is…

Survey control in underground mines is essential to ensuring the efficiency of mining systems. I vividly recall my first venture into a mine, in the early years of the Second World War, at the Red Ros…

Five European shareholders of Imperial Metals (TSE) have filed notices of their intention to sell up to a total of 20 million shares of the company. The holding represents 38% of Imperial’s 52 million…

Although the stock markets have been on a slide for the past month or so, trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange is still well ahead of last year. For example, the TSE’s average daily value of $808.1 m…

A private company run by former executives of now-bankrupt Curragh expects to reach a deal with receiver Peat Marwick Thorne this month regarding the purchase of Curragh’s Faro lead-zinc mine in the c…

A new, cost-effective, integrated process for the economic production of gold and copper from ores containing cyanide-soluble copper has been developed by DuPont. The company says this technology can …

Derek Pannell appointed president.

Robert Whittall appointed vice-president of finance.

Dale Hendrick appointed president.

W. Zinn appointed president and chief executive officer.

The Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (CANMET) has opened a mining research laboratory in Sudbury, Ont. Situated on Kelly Lake Road, the new lab will carry out research in rockbursts, ba…