BM&S exploring
Toronto-listed Brunswick Mining and Smelting has earmarked $37.5 million over the next five years to find ore within trucking distance of its New Brunswick operation. If this search proves fruitless, …
News
METALS MARKETS — Gold up on renewed investor interest
The sharp turnaround in the gold price in April and its continued strong upswing should herald renewed financial strength for this sector of the mining industry. Spurred by investors jumping into the …
Great Lakes gears up for production
It has been three long years since Great Lakes Minerals first listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and embarked on a quest to join the select group of Canadian juniors that can boast an operating cash…
Cash cost drops for gold producers
The average cash cost of Western gold producers dropped to US$247 per oz. in 1992 from US$260 the previous year, Gold Fields Mineral Services reports in its Gold 1993 report. otal average production c…
Platinum market in 1992 in oversupply
The world platinum market was marginally oversupplied last year by 20,000 oz., Johnson Matthey says in its Platinum 1993 Review. Supplies of the metal dropped by 8% in 1992 to 3.82 million oz. because…
Madeleine Mines receives environmental permit
The Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Energy has issued Madeleine Mines (TSE) final approval for operation of the Lac des Iles platinum-palladium mine, 60 miles north of Thunder Bay, Ont. Upon c…
Aurizon, Louvem exploring Beaufor play
Exploration and development of quartz veins on the Beaufor property near Val d’Or, Que., will soon be in high gear now that Aurizon Mines (ME) and Louvem Mines (ME) have joined forces. The two compani…
Cusac plans drilling on Table Mountain
A 2,000-ft drill program is planned by Cusac Industries (TSE) to further explore the Table Mountain property near Cassiar, B.C. Crews are being mobilized and a camp established to allow the 7-hole dri…
Prof compiles deposit data
An economic geology professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg has set up a library of samples, thin sections, photos and maps from more than 3,000 ore deposits around the world. Dr. Peter La…
Uranium report due in October
A report on three proposed uranium mining projects in Saskatchewan will be complete by Oct. 15, says Canadian Press. Donald Lee, chairman of the panel studying the developments, estimated the panel ha…
PRODUCER PRICES (May 31, 1993)
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US52.50-53.50 cents per lb. (May 13, 1993). ANTIMONY: MW New York dealer US78-82 cents per lb. (Mar. 26, 1993). BISMUTH: MW New York dealer US$2.50-2.70 per lb. (Mar. 26, 1993…
Cornucopia reviews Tonkin Springs
With Homestake Mining (NYSE) out of the picture, U.S. Gold (NASDAQ) has signed an agreement giving Cornucopia Resources (TSE) an option to acquire a 55% interest in the Tonkin Springs mine and mill in…