BIG shareholders to meet in January
Bond International Gold (TSE) has delayed its annual meeting of shareholders, originally scheduled for this month, until Jan 10, 1990, in order to give its new majority shareholder LAC Minerals (TSE) …
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Inco feasibility for Cochenour
Inco Gold, a wholly owned subsidiary of Inco Ltd. (TSE), is encouraged with results from the Cochenour-Willans project near Red Lake, Ont., and plans to continue with drilling, bulk sampling and a fea…
Placer speculates Mexican Hat prospect holds porphry copper
Prospector Manny Hernandez of Pearce, Ariz., helped guide Placer Dome U.S., a unit of Placer Dome (TSE), to the promising Mexican Hat gold prospect. Called Mexican Hat for the distinctive shape of the…
Editorial Northern benefits
Living in northern Canada can be tough. The hardships imposed by location are sometimes difficult for those in the south to imagine. Isolation, for example, means your spouse can’t get the same medi…
Forecasting metals consumption, prices (1)
Whatever makes the distant or the future predominate over the present advances us in the dignity of human beings. I hold that man in awe who is clearly in contact with the future. So advise Samuel Joh…
Blackhawk puts three drills on Minago
After acquiring the Minago nickel project in northern Manitoba last summer, Toronto-based Black Hawk Mining (TSE) has deployed three drills on the property in its bid to prove up a mineable orebody. D…
LAC’s third quarter earnings slip slightly to $11.4 million
Lower gold prices and production reduced earnings for LAC Minerals (TSE) during the third quarter ended Sept 30. For the period, the company earned $11.4 million or 11 cents per share, compared with …
Stewart-Sulphurets
There’s probably no other camp in Canada that can boast such a variety of projects at various stages of advanced exploration and development as this area in northwestern British Columbia. It has almos…
New discoveries make Mishibishu Ontario’s hot spot
Northern Ontario’s Mishibishu gold camp is a thriving exploration hot spot, thanks largely to a steady stream of new discoveries which have confirmed the area’s potential during the past few years. Th…
Northern Quebec focus of 1990 CIM symposium
A CIM symposium this spring will focus on 60 years of exploration in the polymetallic belt of northern Quebec. Major mineral deposits in production or under development in the Rouyn- Noranda, Val d’Or…
IMM catalogue
The Institute of Mining and Metallurgy has released its new 1989/1990 publications catalogue, copies of which are now available free of charge to interested readers. The IMM is a professional associat…
Gold boom
During the gold boom which reached its peak in August, 1987, few juniors had the foresight to begin scouring the landscape for promising base metals properties. Copper was dead and not a soul in his r…