The latest economic developments are extremely interesting for the Canadian metal-mining industry. Inflation psychology has been injected into business and finance. An increase in commodity prices ove…
Probing deep under the water and mud of the west middle arm of Steep Rock Lake, near Atikokan, Ont., a series of eight vertical diamond drill holes has punctured what appears to be a big deposit of he…
Most of the ore at Detour Lake lies adjacent to the contact between an ultramafic unit and a series of mafic volcanics. Gold is primarily localized in quartz- pyrrhotite/pyrite/ chalcopyrite structure…
It is now a year since Canadian mining markets — indeed security markets the world over — began to flatten down. We in this country have been fortunate in that, despite our decline on the markets, o…
Placer Dome takes a back seat to no one when it comes to finding and building new mines. In Canada, the company is evaluating three potential producers: the Eastmain project, 185 miles northeast of C…
“Zeballos is the best thing that has happened to this province’s gold-mining industry in ages,” the deputy minister of mines for British Columbia stated last week at a meeting here of the Engineering …
Opening shots for the big new development program at the Macassa mine, in Kirkland Lake, Ont., were fired this week. Sinking operations began Monday on the new 4,000-ft shaft, in the centre of the pro…
The Cariboo district of British Columbia, famous for its colorful and prosperous gold rush in the middle of the last century, now seems to be entering a new period of mining activity. But whereas the …
At least once a month, as workloads and budgets allow, one of our magazine staffers flies off to tour and report on a mine in Canada. This is a matter of policy — we can’t adequately cover an industr…
Surrounded by coniferous bush, 209 km northeast of Timmins, Ont., sits the Detour Lake gold mine. It is the only fly-in mining operation in Ontario and, as such, has kept a pretty low profile within t…
An $800,000 financing agreement has been arranged between Wrightbar Mines and CMP 1988 Resource Partnership and Co., Ltd. at 95 cents per share. The money will be used on exploration work at the compa…
The Ariel mining group in Quebec has added a ninth member, Vancouver-listed Goldstack Resources. Goldstack has a 33 1/3% interest in the old Malartic Goldfield s mine site located near Val d’Or, Que. …
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