Exploration ’88 PICKLE LAKE PICKS UP
During the past three years, exploration expenditures have increased fourfold in the Pickle Lake, Meen Dempster and North Caribou areas of northwestern Ontario. By any measure, the money that has been…
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Exploration ’88 INCO GOLD
Inco Gold, the recently-created company that handles Inco Ltd.’s gold exploration and development, will spend $40 million this year searching for precious metals around the world. This represents a 52…
Exploration ’88 CONIAGAS
Coniagas Mines, both directly and through affiliated companies, is pursuing a number of essentially gold exploration targets, which represent a 1988 budget of about $4 million. For Coniagas itself, th…
Exploration ’88 SMDC
Saskatchewan Mining Development Corp.’s exploration expenditures are expected to increase in 1988 to about $8.5 million from $5 million spent in 1987. The largest portion, about $6 million, will be sp…
Exploration ’88 THE B.C. BONANZA
TOODOGGONE In terms of exploration activity, 1987 was one of the best years ever for the Toodoggone gold camp, north of Smithers, B.C. Much of the work was flow-through-funded, which obviously will pl…
Research PACIFIC SMOKERS
The present is the key to the past. — Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) Geologist Steven Scott, a professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Toronto, has one of the most exciting researc…
Exploration ’88 AMERICAN BARRICK
American Barrick Resources has a firm $3-million exploration budget for 1988, exclusive of exploration activity in the vicinity of the Mercur and Goldstrike gold mines in Nevada.(For information on th…
Exploration ’88 CONSOLIDATED GOLD FIELDS
Consolidated Gold Fields of London, England conducts exploration in North America through two wholly-owned subsidiaries — Gold Fields Canadian Mining in Canada and Gold Fields Mining Corp. in the U.S…
THE WHITE KNIGHTS Beware of PGMs and Pt-Pd Ratios
The buzz of activity in platinum exploration has created some confusion among investors. Assays are often reported as “pgms per ton.” That means all six of the platinum group metals (or pgms) containe…
Exploration ’88 DICKENSON
Dickenson Mines plans to spend $1.3 million on various exploration projects in 1988. This is roughly the same amount spent in 1987 and the search is again primarily for precious metals. In the Slocan …
Exploration ’88 KERR-ADDISON
Kerr Addison Mines will spend about $6.5 million exploring for gold on its properties in Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia and Nevada. The total will rise to about $10 million when contributions are …
Exploration ’88 LAC
In 1988, Lac Minerals will spend $13 million on exploration including $5 million at existing mining operations. Exploration expenditures in 1987 were $27 million because of the proceeds from a $10-mil…