Having recently completed an annual review of trading activity on the composite 300 index, The Toronto Stock Exchange is dropping six mining issues from the index and adding one. To disappear from the…
The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame awards ceremony, the industry’s annual tribute to its most distinguished citizens, just keeps on getting bigger. At the recent third annual dinner function at Toronto’…
Valuation of mineral deposits and companies will be the subject of the Canadian Insitute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum’s sixth mineral economics symposium Jan. 17 at Toronto’s Sheraton Centre. S…
Minefinders get the glory, but the minebuilders get the ore. For 65 years, while others discovered and financed the deposits, John C. MacIsaac applied his energies to breaking the first rock, sinking …
The market is in such bad shape that it doesn’t matter who’s running it, remarked one over-the- counter broker when asked to comment on the TSE’s recent decision to take over COATS. It remains to be s…
It was John E. Hammell’s ambition to “crack open the north,” and he did that through his pioneering use of aircraft. Hammell’s perseverance led to the eventual development of the Flin Flon operations …
During the years 1917-1920, Randolphe William Diamond developed a new process for ore separation known as differential froth flotation that unlocked the treasures of the Sullivan zinc-lead-iron sulphi…
Trading during the first days of the new year was off to an inauspicious start, with the general market portfolio index slipping by more than 21 points for the week ended Jan. 8. The mining and minera…
Financing for the construction of the Castle Mountain heap leach gold mine in San Bernardino Cty., Calif., is near at hand for Viceroy Resources (TSE). The company secured a credit facility with N.M. …
n this year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one, 1984 may have truly arrived. Big Brother administers to the resources industry through environmental legislation and bureaucracy. In m…
Exploration activity in Canada last year fell markedly from the 1989 level, which was about 70% or so down from the record 1987 and 1988 levels. Taxation changes have greatly affected the ability of t…
The Mining Association of British Columbia is gearing up for Mining Week 1991. The celebrations will be held during the last week of February. Three days of events in Vancouver’s Pan Pacific Hotel wil…
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