Western markets followed their eastern cousins down over the trading period ended June 21, despite strength in gold and other commodities. The negative investment sentiment pushed the Vancouver Stock …
Toronto-based Rio Algom (TSE) has agreed to buy a 25% royalty interest in the production proceeds from the Polaris mine on Little Cornwallis Island, N.W.T. The royalty interest is the main asset of NC…
Toronto-based Madsen Gold (TSE) has proposed a private placement of 80-100 units at $12,350 each. A unit will consist of 9,000 flow-through common shares at $1.25 each and 1,000 common share purchase …
Philippine President Fidel Ramos recently signed a law reducing taxes on minerals, which he described as a rescue package that would attract foreign investors to his country’s ailing mining industry. …
The Guanaco open-pit mine has been in production for more than a year and 90%-owner Amax Gold (NYSE) is still working the bugs out of the system. Situated 145 miles southeast of Antofagasta, the mine …
Output at La Coipa, an open-pit gold and silver mine in northern Chile, has continued to expand. Production in 1993 — 8 million grams gold (258,200 oz.) and 413.7 million grams silver (13.3 million o…
Joint-venture partners Bema Gold (TSE) and Amax Gold (NYSE) have resumed negotiations with banking institutions to finance the Refugio gold project in north-central Chile. The capital cost of placing …
Large gold producer Lac Minerals (TSE) is looking to increase both reserves and output at its Chilean holdings. The company’s Lac South America division holds more than 600 square miles in the Andes (…
If the current feasibility study of Escondida is approved, an expansion project will begin which would increase the copper mine’s annual output to more than 700,000 tonnes copper in concentrate. The e…
Nickel giant Inco (TSE) is hoping to raise US$150 million through an offering in the U.S. of convertible debentures. The company has filed a preliminary prospectus with the Ontario Securities Commissi…
The Cerro Colorado project has been producing copper since February and, already, owner Rio Algom (TSE) is talking of expanding. For 1994, output is anticipated to be 60 million lb. copper; for 1995, …
That the Collahuasi copper project in northern Chile will be large is a given, but equally huge is the impact it will have on the three partners involved. For example, the one-sixth interest of Norand…
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