A respected contributor to geology, mineralogy and mining in Ontario, Jack Satterly died recently in Toronto. He was 86. Following his 32 years with the Ontario Department of Mines (ODM), which ended …
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US54-55 cents per lb. (Mar. 4, 1993). ANTIMONY: MW New York dealer US78-88 cents per lb. (July 30, 1992). BISMUTH: MW New York dealer US$2.35-2.70 per lb. (June 11, 1992). CAD…
A shipping season of at least five months is commercially feasible for Coronation Gulf, N.W.T., according to a recent study on Arctic navigation. The study looked at access to and from Coronation Gulf…
Breakwater Resources (TSE) has purchased the equivalent of US$9.2 million in Honduran sovereign debt at a substantial discount to face value. The company says it then exchanged the debt for Honduran c…
A memorandum of understanding on developing ties between the mineral industries of Canada and Mexico was signed in Ottawa recently by officials of the two North American countries. The officials met t…
An agreement to manage and market a Sub-Andean Basins petroleum study has been signed by Petroleum Information Canada and ARPEL, the Latin American State Oil Co. Association for Reciprocal Assistance….
Despite its massive copper potential, Panama’s first major mining operation may be gold. The country’s Cerro Colorado project is a major porphyry copper deposit. It is in the western part of the count…
The only Canadian company operating a mine in Colombia is Greenstone Resources (TSE). In a sense, the Toronto-based company was able to benefit from the negative news flowing from the South American c…
The government of Brazil is expelling 10,000 illegal gold prospectors from a reserve on the Venezuelan border belonging to the Yanomami indigenous people. An official from the National Indigenous Foun…
A notice of intention to make a proposal under a section of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act has been filed by Claude Resources. Under the Act, Claude will be permitted to make restructuring proposal…
The Central American nation of Costa Rica is host to a growing number of exploration companies. The country’s placer gold deposits have been exploited from the earliest days of the Spanish colonial re…
Ecuador’s copper deposits have attracted two Vancouver juniors, Kookaburra Resources (VSE) and AG Armeno Resources (VSE), which hope to establish a solvent extraction-electrowinning operation (SX-EW) …
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