Asarco to close Idaho silver mine
The Galena silver mine in northern Idaho will be shut down July 26 and placed on a care-and-maintenance basis because of depressed silver prices, Asarco (NYSE) reports. About 215 employees will be aff…
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Siddon speaks in support of Yukon mining industry
Placer and hard-rock miners face tougher land-use laws in a draft report which the federal northern development minister unveiled recently in the territory. Still, Tom Siddon, federal minister of Indi…
Drilling planned for Sustut project
An initial drilling program is set to commence at the Sustut gold-copper project in British Columbia, 190 km north of Smithers and 60 km south of the Kemess area, Beauchamps Exploration (VSE) and Skee…
Virginia Gold in option deal
An option agreement to earn a 100% interest in the Sagar III property in Quebec’s Labrador Trough has been finalized, Virginia Gold Mines (ME) reports. The junior says the property, 50 sq. km in size,…
Echo Bay plans sale of convertible preferred shares
Gold producer Echo Bay Mines (TSE) has given notice to the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission of its intention to file a preliminary prospectus for the sale of US$100 million in convertible preferred…
Homestake bets on new zone as 116-year-old mine declines
San Francisco-based Homestake Mining (NYSE) is taking a huge gamble by running a US$23-million exploration drift north from its namesake gold mine in South Dakota, local geologists say. The target of …
PROFILE (June 15, 1992)
Canada’s mining industry is poised to enter its diamond phase, say those who have a stake in the Lac de Gras region, from which a bulk sample yielded gem-quality stones last month. The stock market re…
INSIDER TRADING (June 15, 1992)
Jascan Resources (TSE) director William Felderhof recently sold a large block of company stock as part of an ongoing effort to sever previous connections with the 49% owned Faraday Resources (TSE) aff…
EDITORIAL PAGE (June 15, 1992)
The average rate of inflation in the developing countries fell to 49.3% in 1991, from 104.7% in 1990, according to data in the April, 1992, issue of the International Monetary Fund’s International Fin…
NEWS ROUNDUP (June 15, 1992)
A study by The Gold Institute of Washington, D.C., says the U.S. Treasury is not an active participant in the gold market and that the country’s gold reserve is unlikely to be sold, or used in gold lo…
TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE INDICES (June 15, 1992)
June 9 June 8 June 5 June 4 June 3 High Low Composite”300″3386.09 3394.48 3392.56 3403.42 3407.34 4009.47 3009.91 Metals&Minerals 3193.57 3215.12 3202.90 3234.27 3157.17 3453.06 2502.63 Integrated Min…
GUEST COLUMN (June 15, 1992)
What would you have if you had “hydrothermal gold-molybdenum deposition resulting from exsolution of volatile phases from a felsic magma with attendant alteration and brecciation”? The answer is, one …