Taylor Rand, Polyore to merge
Taylor Rand, an affiliate of Madison Grant Resources (CDN), has agreed to amalgamate with Polyore Capital (CDN). Taylor Rand and Polyore shareholders will be able to exchange their shares with the new…
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Mixed results for DHK
Salt Lake City, Utah-based Kennecott has released results from seven kimberlite pipe targets drilled this summer on the DHK project in the Northwest Territories. The verdict: mixed. The latest results…
NEWS ROUNDUP — Cornucopia buys Drinkwater project
Having completed a due diligence review, Cornucopia Resources (TSE) has exercised its option to acquire the Mary-Drinkwater gold project near Silver Peak, Nev. The company paid US$230,000 for the prop…
Champion drilling Hachita project
A 12,000-ft. drill program is testing five separate gold skarn targets, identified by geophysics and surface sampling, on the Hachita property in the southwest corner of New Mexico. The 24-hole progra…
EDITORIAL PAGE — Give us a break
We are a high-wage, highly educated society. We cant simply rely on shipping out our natural gas and crude oil and lumps of rock. So says Robert Fairholm, managing economist at DRI/McGraw-Hill in Toro…
COMMENTARY — The diamond-cobalt bond
Diamonds are still the hardest substance available for cutting, but only in a few cases (for example, wheel dressing) are large stones used on their own. Most diamond tooling is made in a manner simil…
PRODUCER PRICES (August 09, 1993)
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US56-57 per lb. (July 29, 1993). ANTIMONY: MW New York dealer US76-80 per lb. (June 10, 1993). BISMUTH: MW New York dealer US$2.35-2.70 per lb. (June 11, 1992). CADMIUM: MW Ne…
Gold Vessel reports Venezuela results
Trench results have been received from the Choco-6 gold property in El Callao district in Venezuelas Guyana Shield, reports Gold Vessel Resources (ASE). Three trenches, one of which represents a deepe…
Placer Dome loosens reins — Independent-minded Gibraltar
Since production started in 1972, Gibraltar Mines (TSE) has adapted to adversity several times and survived. It hopes to continue that strategy partly by expanding mill capacity at its Gibraltar open-…
Cambior output rises by 29%
Gold production increased by 29%, to 233,321 oz., during the first half of 1993 compared with the same period last year, Cambior (TSE) reports. The increase is attributed to start-up of production in …
Amax writes down Hayden Hill
High operating costs resulting from lower-than-expected head grades at the Hayden Hill mine prompted Amax Gold (NYSE) to take a second-quarter writedown of US$69 million. Since June, 1992, when the mi…
Jordex reviews Hushamu project
A team of independent specialists has completed a review of the Hushamu copper-gold project on northern Vancouver Island, B.C. The study was commissioned by Jordex Resources (TSE), which is earning a …