Analyst Ian Lamont, writing in a recent issue of the Yorkton Natural Resources newsletter: The physical demand for gold bullion is currently extremely strong and, in theory, this should cause the pric…
This year’s recipient of the Futterer award is Tina Markovic. The award is given annually to the most outstanding final-year mining student in the Canadian Mineral Industry Education Foundation’s mini…
Demand for Canadian circulation coins increased 27% to more than one billion pieces in 1992. Most of the increase is due to public interest in the 25-cent and $1 coins of the Canada 125 coin program, …
Stewart Blusson recently acquired a controlling interest in Texas Sidewinder Oil (VSE), which will buy all his interests in the BHP Minerals/Dia Met Minerals/Charles Fipke/Blusson joint venture outsid…
Noranda Minerals, a unit of Noranda (TSE), has sold its control block of 11.5 million shares of Louvem Mines (TSE) to Montreal-based junior St. Genevieve Resources (TSE) for $1.7 million (15 cents per…
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US51.25-52.25 cents per lb. (Apr. 22, 1993). ANTIMONY: MW New York dealer US78-82 cents per lb. (Mar. 11, 1993). BISMUTH: MW New York dealer US$2.35-2.70 per lb. (June 11, 199…
A strong performance recently by the yellow metal has prompted at least two gold-producers to announce new financing. Cash-strapped MinVen Gold (TSE), which has been burdened by heavy debt and low gol…
The Alberta Stock Exchange has requested that Focal Resources (ASE) retain a Canadian laboratory to fire-assay core from ongoing drilling on a metallic mineral lease in northeastern Alberta. The compa…
Take a single paper match and cut a piece from the end just a little shorter in length than the match is wide. This fragment then represents the amount of gold the Pamour mine has in one ton of ore. A…
Few mining executives have faced such complex and demanding challenges as those taken on recently by Margaret (Peggy) Witte, the hands-on chairman, president, and chief executive of Royal Oak Mines. W…
Royal Oak Mines acquired the Hope Brook mine in southwestern Newfoundland last year and by July 1, 1992, had begun commerical production. Total output for the year was 50,693 oz. The mine is running n…
The Northern Miner Magazine was born in 1986. From the beginning it was an outstanding success. Both readers and advertisers were drawn to the publication because of its lively mix of featurish-type, …
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