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Favorable exchange rates, improved lead prices and positive adjustments to year-end inventories more than offset weaker prices for zinc and copper, enabling Brunswick Mining and Smelting (TSE) to earn…

Despite severe weather at its operations in Ingersoll, Ont., and Luttrell, Tenn., Global Stone (TSE) managed to post earnings for the three months ended March 31. Net income for the period was $627,00…

The Colorado-Wyoming kimberlite province in the western U.S. includes more than 100 kimberlite intrusives, one of the largest lamproite fields in the world, and dozens of unexplored geophysical, remot…

Interest in gold, among central banks, has rarely been so high. This is because the price of gold is approaching US$400 per oz. and because of the mobilization of gold (gold loans, options, etc.) by s…

In recent months, senior mining companies have offered more than $700 million to acquire four large copper and copper-gold deposits in various parts of the world. Mining analysts predict that another …

Terms of a previously announced private placement for TVI Copper (ASE) have changed. The number of special warrants to be issued has increased to 5 million from 3.7 million for gross proceeds of $4 mi…

Gunther Muller appointed director.

G. Kesse appointed director.

Daniel McFadden appointed director.

Donald Robbins appointed director, environmental services for western operations; John Richardson appointed manager, environmental sciences.

V. Lawrick appointed director and president; R. Kinley appointed director.

William Brereton and Eugene McBurney appointed directors; Donald Clark appointed president and director.