When rock mechanic engineers try to design safe underground repositories for the storing of spent nuclear fuel bundles, they strive for sophisticated and reliable methods of predicting induced damage….
Following the completion of a $2.1-million underground exploration program on the Eastmain project, partners Placer Dome Inc and MSV Resources are expected to reach a production decison by May. Locate…
Mining in Canada is changing. And fast. For years “mining,” to the average Canadian, conjured up images of grizzled prospectors pounding on rocks somewhere in the vast north, searching for a mineral d…
Underground exploration at the snip gold project in northwestern British Columbia should begin sometime in February, says Cominco Ltd., the operator. Delaware Resources will fund the $4.5-million prog…
An option agreement under which Sigma Mines (Quebec) may acquire a 50% interest in the Ligneris gold property of Vior Inc. is nearing completion, Vior reports. The two companies signed the option agre…
Drilling by Proteus Resources has commenced on a 106-claim group property in Garrison and Thackeray twps. in northern Ontario, the Toronto-based company reports. Lac Minerals, which may earn a 50% int…
After ironing out some wrinkles in the system, Gordex Minerals says it is close to completing an expansion program at Canada’s first primary heap leach project. Located at Cape Spencer northeast of Sa…
Ressources Orex has completed an option agreement giving the company the right to acquire a 50% interest in the Goldboro gold property by spending $6 million and completing a feasibility study. Locate…
Chemetics International, a division of cil Inc. of Toronto, has beaten out two other major engineering companies in the hotly contested bid for a major construction project in Rouyn-Noranda, Que. Nora…
The Bullmoose coal mine, in northeastern British Columbia, is a joint venture of Teck Corp. (51%), Lornex Mining Corp. (39%) and Nissho-Iwai (Canada) Ltd. (10%). It is managed and operated by Bullmoo…
The Obed mine, in west-central Alberta, enjoyed its best year ever, selling just under one million tonnes of thermal coal. However, the mine is still producing at only one-third of its 3-million-tonne…
With respect to the article on Dolphin Explorations in your Jan 18 issue, I feel obliged to point out, somewhat along the lines of Mark Twain’s comment, that the suggestion that Robert McCallum and To…
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