News

Toronto-listed junior Kinross Gold (TSE) has completed the previously announced purchase of 8.2 million shares and a $7.4-million convertible debenture of Falconbridge Gold (TSE) from Falconbridge for…

A bulk sample has netted Ottarasko Mines 365 oz. gold and 156 oz. silver. The company mined 190 tons from its Mt. Skinner gold project, 120 miles west of Williams Lake, B.C. The low-sulphide quartz or…

Gold’s role as a reliable store of value can be important at times of political or economic uncertainty. This applies not only to Western investors but, more importantly, to the populations of countri…

Though not a good week for the base metal miners, our report week was far kinder to the gold and diamond stocks. For example, gold bullion posted a very solid move after drifting sideways for quite so…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US51.50-52.50 cents per lb. (Sept. 30, 1993). ANTIMONY: MW New York dealer US76-80 cents per lb. (June 10, 1993). BISMUTH: MW New York dealer US$2.35-2.65 per lb. (Sept. 23, 1…

Jeffrey Grade appointed director.

Desmond Kearns appointed president and chief operating officer.

Patricia Sheahan appointed director and president; Robin Baxter-Brown appointed chairman; Anthony Hamilton appointed vice-president, finance.

Claude Taillefer appointed director, president and chief executive officer; Edward Blanchard appointed independent director.

Keith Belingheri appointed vice-president, engineering; Gaylyn Spriggs appointed director, government affairs.

Terry Fagg appointed general manager; Glenn Holley appointed mine superintendent.

Virgil Larios appointed mine superintendent.