Royal Oak Mines (TSE) President Peggy Witte rejected a call from Canada’s minister of labor and mediators that the status of 45 terminated employees from the Giant mine be turned over to an arbitrator…
Litigation related to claims staked in the Benoit Twp. area of Quebec has in large part been resolved. Freewest Resources (TSE) and Ressources Minieres Canaco (ME) say Ressources Minieres Forbex (ME) …
Gold is likely to be the best performing metal on a relative basis during 1993, delegates to the recent Western Gold Show here were told. David Williamson, an independent metals industry consultant, w…
An agreement allowing Soquem to earn 50% of the rights of Societe d’Exploration Miniere Vior (ME) in the Douay property option of Northern Abitibi Mining (ASE) in Quebec’s Casa Berardi region has been…
Calgary-based Associated Mining Consultants (AMCL) has been awarded a contract through Canadian Commercial Corp. for a preparatory study of coal mining practices and the reclamation of coal-mined land…
Major Canadian banks have had a long tradition of financing mine development to commercial production in Canada. The banks’ interest gained momentum in the 1950s with the development of Canada’s urani…
Having worked as a miner, and later as a prospector for myself and for companies, I am dismayed at the devastation in Canada’s mining industry today. I hear governments saying, “Let’s try to get away …
A report on mine safety standards prepared by Ralph McGinn, British Columbia’s chief mines inspector, was recently endorsed by the International Labor Organization’s governing body. McGinn is now expa…
Exploration is scheduled to begin on Allegheny Mines’ (ASE) 47-claim Atiko-Sapawe Gold Mines property, 20 miles east of Atikokan, Ont., in 1993. Working with a new structural interpretation of the pro…
For a person whose burning ambition after high school was to forge a career in forestry, M.R. (Mort) Brown has done well for himself — in mining. At 80, The Northern Miner’s soon-to-retire publisher …
Friends and associates of M.R. (Mort) Brown will honor the retiree at a party Jan. 21, 1993, at the Ontario Club and Engineers’ Club (recently merged), fifth floor, Commerce Court South, downtown Toro…
For a government teetering on bankruptcy, Ottawa keeps right on spending like a drunken sailor. And I’m not referring to that asinine squandering of $4.3 billion for 50 of the world’s most sophisticat…
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