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Canada’s newest gold mining giant, Placer Dome, is boosting its exploration spending to $51.9 million in 1988, an $11.6-million increase over the 1987 budget. But unlike Noranda, which has hungry base…

Newmont Exploration of Canada has budgeted $6.3 million for exploration in 1988. However, another nearly $4 million will be contributed by joint-venture companies on Newmont-managed ground, bringing t…

Rayrock Yellowknife Resources will spend about $3.5 million on exploration this year. Most of the money will be used in a search for precious metals, including reserve definition drilling on the Costa…

Concurrent with a program of depth development, Pickle Crow Gold Mines has been intensifying the search for subsidiary vein occurrences. Two diamond drills are probing from surface ground contiguous t…

With a registration of 1,585 on the second night, the 39th annual convention of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy at Toronto established a new signpost this week in the upward march of t…

It looks very much like the flow-through gravy train is making its last whistle stop. Last year, $1 billion was raised through flow-through share financings for grassroots and more advanced exploratio…

Your introduction to my article, which you entitled “Dubunking a Myth” (see January issue), says: “Junior exploration firms aren’t the mine-finders par excellence they’re made out to be. According to …

In mining court in Toronto recently, Mr Justice Godson reserved judgment in the matter of the application of Kerr-Addison Mines for permission to dump slimes into a bay on the northeast arm of Larder …

LEP Chemical, a major chemical manufacturer in the United Kingdom, has come up with a rather remarkable solution to the time-consuming problem of repairing conveyor belts which develop tears and rips …

The Canadian mine-finding fraternity is jittery. Over the past three or four years, easy money (relatively speaking) has been available, thanks in large measure to the federal government’s brilliant t…

There comes a time in every explorationist’s life when he or she must enter upon private property. In most cases, no problems will be encountered, but every so often they are. The problem usually take…

The Hughes-Lang Group has grown to such an extent over recent years that it now comprises some 20 dif- ferent companies. The company has major programs in western and eastern Canada, the Yukon, Mexico…