METAL PRICES (June 08, 1992)
FREE MARKET London Metal Exchange Spot closing prices in $US per tonne, except copper and lead (pounds sterling per tonne)…
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GOLD FUNDS (June 08, 1992)
BGR Central Net Value $7.93 $5.07 Price $6.25 $4.60 Discount 21.16% 9.30% Value $47,200,000 $77,391,780…
NEWS IN BRIEF (June 08, 1992)
International Suneva Resources Ltd. (ISN:VSE) has changed its name to Nevsun Resources Ltd. (NSU:VSE) with a consolidation of 1-new-for-4-old-share basis. The transfer agent is Montreal Trust.
Franklin awarded top medal twice at GAC-MAC meeting
(Staff) — The Duncan R. Derry Medal — the highest award that can be bestowed on a geoscientist in Canada — was given here twice recently to Jim Franklin of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Th…
Inland Gold and Pegasus terminate proposed merger
Due to a lack of shareholder response, Inland Gold and Silver (NASDAQ) and Pegasus Gold (TSE) will not proceed with a previously proposed merger. Pegasus offered Inland shareholders the equivalent of …
Valdez reports loss for 1991
A net loss of $6.5 million was reported for 1991 by Valdez Gold (ASE), which has a 25% interest in the Valdez Creek gold placer mining project in Alaska. For the first quarter of 1992, the company rec…
San Andreas acquiring Hunt mine
Over a decade ago, silver speculators Nelson and William Hunt of Texas spent over $64 million to build a mine at Prairie Creek, a high-grade zinc-lead-silver-copper deposit about 300 miles west of Yel…
Golden West ground expanded
Additional mining claims adjoining the Golden West property in La Paz Cty. were recently acquired by HRC Development, expanding the private group’s holdings in this region of Arizona. The ground will …
Analyst bullish on base metals
When we entered the current recession seems not to be an issue, but when we started to come out of it is, writes metals analyst Ray Goldie of securities firm Richardson Greenshields: In March 1990, th…
Technological improvements bolster Campbell mine
In an age when precious metal producers are struggling with the bottom line, the Campbell mine of Placer Dome (TSE), in the heart of the Red Lake gold camp, is ploughing through tough times with an en…
Private funding for Kenora prospect
A private company from Alberta has agreed to raise the financing required to begin advanced exploration on Kenora Prospectors and Miners’ (CDN) gold prospect in northwestern Ontario. In return for an …
Diamond fever at Kirkland Lake
Some of the limelight focused on the Lac de Gras diamond play is finding its way back to Kirkland Lake, Ont., home of the first kimberlite discovery in Canada. Since that initial find in 1968, at leas…