50 years ago – December, 1940
DEMAND FULLY MET Robert Stanley, president of International Nickel Co. of Canada, reports that all war and ordinary demands are being fully supplied. He adds that none of the company’s products is bei…
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Letters (December 07, 1990)
HOYLE POND’S GENESIS In the september, 1990 issue of the Northern Miner Magazine, the article entitled “Falco’s Golden Egg” refers to the Hoyle Pond discovery and states: “Gold was discovered in 1976 …
The uniqueness of Eskay
Like the Hemlo gold deposits in Ontario, the Eskay Creek polymetallic deposits will be discussed by geologists for decades. Eskay Creek is a unique discovery, from both an academic and an economic poi…
Checking it twice
The computer was to have eliminated most of the memos, missives and managerial decrees that circulate within departments, between departments and from head office to the operating mine. The computer d…
Supplier’s notes
Scintrex Ltd. of Concord, Ont. has been awarded C$2.7 million in contracts by Romenergo, Romania’s second Canadian deuterium uranium (CANDU) reactor. Scintrex supplied simlar equipment for Romania’s f…
What’s new
North Safety Products Rexdale, Ont.-based North Safety Products is selling two new items: an improved Model 9880 air-purifying respirator and the LSF 2075 style full-body harness. The respirator is eq…
Garbage in, gold out
Take the computer chips from a truckload of seat belt alarms, run them through a shredder, and then roast them to 1,300deg C. What do you get? Aside from the worthless stuff, 80 oz. of pure platinum. …
Words, words, words
There is a mystique about the mining industry in the minds of laymen, due in large part to the specialized terminology of the industry. So it is with law. Certain lawyers preen themselves with the use…
B.C. mining week
British Columbia will hold its third annual mining week during the last week of February in Vancouver’s Pan-Pacific Hotel. Events include a careers fair, an award luncheon, a mine safety banquet and t…
Ramrod drilling
The first hole of a 15-hole drill program on Consolidated Ramrod Gold’s (VSE) Mina Marta concession in Spain has intersected a 75-ft.-wide zone of gold-bearing quartz veins. The highest values reporte…
GOLDFUNDS (November 26, 1990)
MVP BGR Central Capital Net value $9.38 $5.39 $0.26 Price $8.25 $4.850 $0.13 Discount 12.05% 10.0% 50.0% Value $55,826,331 $81,597,855 N/A…
FINANCING (November 26, 1990)
Simon Fraser Resources Ltd. — 300,000 shs offered @ $1.00 per sh. Golden Eagle Resources Ltd. — 1,500,000 shs offered @ 10 per sh.