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Jan 14-15 or 17-18, Reno, Nev. Short Course on Fire Assaying. Contact Mining, Division of Continuing Education MS 048, University of Nevada, Reno, Nev. 89557-0024. Phone (702) 784-4046. Jan 14-16, Ren…

The administration and accounting operations of El-Equip Inc. have been moved to the company’s head office in Sudbury, Ont. The new address is 1078 Kelly Lake Rd., Sudbury, Ont. P3E 5P4. (Phone: 705-6…

The Red Dog project in northwestern Alaska is something of an anomaly. It’s more than just one of the richest base metal mines in the world — it’s a socio-economic alliance between the native people …

If a practice is so common within an industry that it is expe and widely accepted, it can be recognized by the courts as a custom of the trade and, in appropriate circumstances, enforced by the courts…

Increased production at mines in the western U.S. has enabled Amax Gold (NYSE) to report improved earnings for its 1990 third quarter ended Sept. 30. The Colorado-based company announced net earnings …

Surface Water Hydrology, edited by M.G. Wolman and H.C. Riggs. Published by The Geological Society of America, 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colo. 80301. 374 pages. $60 (hardcover). The …

Beginning to make its mark on the Canadian exploration scene, Battle Mountain Canada, a unit of Battle Mountain Gold (NYSE), recently started drilling a new gold zone in Ontario’s Kirkland Lake mining…

Carlisle Trost elected director.

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market US81.50- 85.50 cents per lb. (Oct. 18, 1990). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US80-83 cents per lb. (Sep. 6, 1990). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$2.80-2.90 per lb. (Sep. 13, 1990). CA…

Yorkton Securities Inc. appointed financial adviser.

Robert Johnson appointed president succeeding James Watts who remains as a director.

The first eight holes drilled by Pegasus Gold (TSE) on the Century Gold property in Idaho returned mixed results, the most impressive being a 20-ft. intersection grading 1.13 oz. gold per ton. As oper…