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Pegasus joins LAC at New Mexico bet
An option has been obtained by Pegasus Gold (TSE) to earn a 50% interest in the Ortiz gold project of LAC Minerals (TSE) in New Mexico. Pegasus may earn its interest by spending $27.5 million(US) on e…
Metal snips (August 21, 1989)
The world’s major tin producer- nation last year was Brazil, the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Washington, D.C., reports. In second place was Indonesia, with Malaysia, usually leading the pack, falling to t…
Toronto Stock Exchange Falconbridge, Corona keep mining sector hot
Mining activities continued to generate plenty of excitement on the Toronto Stock Exchange for another week. The Supreme Court of Canada handed down its landmark ruling on the LAC-Corona battle over t…
obituaries Ovide D. Maurice
Ovide Dollard Maurice, a former director of the Geological Exploration Services of the Quebec Department of Natural Resources, died recently at age 70. Born near Midland, Ont., Maurice graduated from …
News in Brief (August 14, 1989)
Gold Bar Resources (COATS) has purchased from Lyndex Explorations (COATS) a 22.7% interest in Chester Resources, a private British Columbia company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Gold Bar says…
Hawk finds nickel
Hawk Resources (VSE) has made a nickel-copper discovery on its property in the Lac St. Jean area of Quebec. Surface exploration resulted in the discovery of a mineralized showing which assayed 0.62% n…
Investment forum
Financial analysts Shearson Lehman Hutton will hold a one-day forum discussing investment in metals and mining in London, England on Nov 1. Presentations will be made on gold by Consolidated Gold Fiel…
Supreme Court to hand down decision on Williams mine
Corona Corp. (TSE) says it has been advised by the Supreme Court of Canada that a decision on the final appeal by LAC Minerals (TSE) concerning ownership of the Williams gold mine at Hemlo, Ont., was …
Detour Gold
Since production began in 1983, Placer Dome’s Detour Lake mine has turned out more than half a million oz of gold. Pictured here with the gold bars that con tain the 500,000th oz are (left to right) T…
Ronrico bulk sample
A bulk sampling program completed on the former-producing Simkar property near Val d’Or, Que, yielded an average recovered gold grade of 0.217 oz gold per ton. Partners Louvicourt Gold Mines (COATS) a…
Strike acquisition
Strike Minerals (COATS) has acquired 103 claims in Baden Twp., Ont. The claims are adjacent to a 28-claim block already owned by the company. An airborne geophysical survey has been completed.