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In this environmentally conscious world, it is worth remembering that every issue has two sides. Take lead, for example. It has been vilified for everything from the failure of 19th-century arctic exp…

London Metal Exchange Spot closing prices in $US per tonne, except copper and lead (pounds sterling per tonne) Date September 4 September 3 August 31 August 30 August 29 Copper 1539-1565 — 1557-1559 …

Cash-rich Hemlo Gold Mines (TSE) has dug into its deep pocket with a $9-million offer to Flanagan McAdam Resources (TSE) and Muscocho Explorations (TSE) for their interests in the mill and surface fac…

TOUTING VALUE-ADDED MATERIALS “Canada has traditionally derived wealth from exploitation of natural resources. Canadians are failing to realize that this is no longer the high road to an increasing st…

Today there are many developments occurring in the industry that lead us to think that strong changes are taking place and that the nature of mining may change profoundly in the future. This article w…

Our collective mediocrity has been well-documented. Hewers of wood, drawers of water and all that. The critics charge that we have beavered away for too long, chopping down vast tracts of forest, digg…

Hemlo, Ont. is a long way from Eskay Creek, B.C. Despite this and other marked contrasts, both mineral projects skyrocketed to prominence as a result of unique and spectacular discoveries that were av…

First impressions can be everything, so Glenn Kosick, a miner processing engineer, sports a stylish business suit when he is promoting his company’s know-how to those who have never heard of him or Mi…

It is axiomatic that it is as important to know the objective priorities of the opposite party to a negotiation as it is to know your own. This applies particularly to negotiations with aboriginal gro…

Often going incognito, micro-computer chips are invading almo mine machinery. Laptop and other portable computers can now process information in the field. Today’s surveying equipment has on-board com…

There is no such thing as a simple legal dispute. Once legal begins or is seriously considered, a dispute over one matter spawns other matters until there is a whole school of disputes. As well, the r…

A few years ago, big Canadian mining companies decided to spin off various assets — usually gold properties — into satellite companies tethered in some fashion to the corporate mother ship. The stra…