A production increase planned for later this year was delayed by the owners of the Glenbrook nickel smelter because of current nickel market conditions. The smelter, near Riddle, Ore., is owned 50% ea…
Forestry, mining and tourism are being handed from one government to another. The status quo of Northern Ontario resource-based communities may be eroded through the constitutional negotiations in nat…
Trenching and drilling are expected to get under way on the CNE/Captain group of properties in New Brunswick by year-end, reports property holder Stratabound Minerals (ASE). Teck (TSE) has completed a…
An option agreement covering 41 claims in Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula, about 40 km northwest of Murdochville, has been signed by Soquem with three prospectors. Soquem, the mining exploration arm of the Q…
After seven years of exploration in northeastern Alberta, a private Edmonton-based company, HMS Properties, says it has outlined a large deposit of metallic minerals in a Devonian limestone formation….
Ontario Hydro recently presented Donald Brisbois, manager of Placer Dome’s (TSE) Dona Lake mine, an incentive cheque for over $37,000. Under a Savings by Design Program offered by Hydro, the Dona Lake…
Mining giant General Mining, Metals and Minerals recently agreed to purchase 3.2 million shares of Cheni Gold Mines (TSE) held by BRGM (Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres) of France. The pur…
New constitutional provisions enshrining aboriginal self-government have prompted expressions of grave concern from some associated with Canada’s resource industries. Ostensibly this concern is rooted…
In his letter to the editor (T.N.M., July 20/92), W.G. Wahl suggests that the journal Exploration and Mining Geology, launched by the Geological Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy…
The new controlling shareholder of Asbestos Corp. (TSE) is projecting rising sales and prices for asbestos. Societe d’Exploration Miniere Mazarin (ME) says that for Quebec producers of asbestos, the m…
Western markets continued a slow slide during the week ended Oct. 20, with the Vancouver Stock Exchange composite index slipping 5.45 points to close at 551.65 and the resource index finishing down 7….
Oct.20 Oct.19 Oct.16 Oct.15 Oct.14 High Low Composite”300″3241.84 3225.48 3207.70 3196.14 3195.39 4009.47 3009.91 Metals&Minerals 2630.44 2643.05 2641.53 2603.82 2608.64 3453.06 2502.63 Integrated Min…
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