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With exploration expenditures way down, mining in Canada is withering and dying, yet Canadian mining companies are doing quite well. Unfortunately, this is occurring in other lands where they are welc…

Closing arguments were heard at the end of October in the $60-million Westminer Canada lawsuit against Seabright Resources’ former directors. Information disclosure and director liability are the cent…

A private company has agreed to finance development of Noront Resources’ (VSE) Beaverbrook antimony property near Gander, Nfld. To earn a 50% interest in the property, the private company must spend $…

The newly acquired La Libertad gold mine in Nicaragua, a 150-ton-per-day project 78 miles east of Managua, was the focus of attention at the recent annual meeting of Greenstone Resources (TSE) in Toro…

A Toronto-based mutual fund recently agreed to purchase a $450,000 unit offering from Orvana Minerals (TSE). The placement totals one million units priced at 45 cents per unit, with each unit comprise…

Scheduled for Nov. 18 at Ottawa’s Westin Hotel is the Mineral Outlook ’92 conference, sponsored by Energy, Mines and Resources Canada (EMR). The focus is on access to markets and to the lands, with sp…

The president of Horne Fault Mines (CDN), Gordon Leliever, recently took a healthy profit on his investment in the junior when he exercised 701,780 options at 10 cents then sold 1.03 million at 20 cen…

Changes to Ontario’s Labour Relations Act reflect the realities of the workplace and the economy, Labour Minister Bob Mackenzie said after the controversial legislation received final approval recentl…

Representatives of KWG Resources (ME) and SouthernEra Resources (TSE) outlined their companies’ different diamond exploration strategies at a recent meeting of the Toronto Society of Financial Analyst…

Toronto-based Beaufield Consolidated Resources (VSE) has acquired a 75% interest in three properties near the Freewest Resources (ME) gold discovery in Benoit Twp., Que. Beaufield acquired the three c…

The International Silver Trade, by Tom Mohide. Published by Woodhead Publishing Ltd. Available at the Silver Institute, 1112 16th St. NW, Suite 240, Washington, D.C. 20036. 190 pages. US$135. Author T…

Gold stocks were unable to maintain their post-election rally during the week ended Nov. 10 as bullion slid to a 6-year low of US$330.25 per oz. in New York. Having recently touched a new 52-week high…