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A second- phase drill program has been completed at the Kinsley Mountain property of Cominco Resources International in Nevada. U.S. Minerals Exploration is the company’s joint venture partner in the …

John Deere has redesigned its compact crawler line and has introduced a new line of machine sizes. The all new 70-hp 450G, 80-hp 550G and 90-hp 650G dozers provide more quality and value than any of J…

The executives at Pegasus Gold may not have heard the old saying about the guy who tried to get blood from a stone, but if asked about the mining company which became famous for extracting gold from l…

It would be hard to put numbers on it, but bush pilots and the air services a lot of them have launched across Canada have played a tremendously vital role in the finding and development of this count…

Candol Developments has acquired options giving the company the right to acquire a 40% interest in seven properties. The properties cover several gold, silver and base metal showings which will be the…

Gold output at the Cannon mine at Wenatchee, Wash., was approximately 6% higher than expected in 1987, according to Breakwater Resources which has a 49% interest in the mine. Calgary-based Asamera Inc…

Marubeni America Corp. of Bensenville, Ill., has introduced a Tri- Sensing System on its hcr-c180r Furukawa rock drill. By monitoring flushing air volumes, air pressure and rotational torque while dri…

Pierre Gauthier should be smiling. His company, St. Genevieve Resources, through the 89.7%- owned Montreal junior Bay Resources and Services, has hit some better-than-average results on it’s Fontana p…

A new, pocket-size, full-featured electronic blaster’s guide is now available from Du Pont Canada’s Applied Technology & Blasting Services group. It is a programmable 16K computer that contains nine s…

Fifty-seven per cent of our gold mines have developed out of properties which had been abandoned or became otherwise dormant. Only 36 1/2 % have been de veloped directly and con tinuously from the ori…

I’ve read how easy it is to buy gold from a bank or trust company such as Guardian Trust. But how do you go about selling it? Is it easy to do? Do you have to pay any fees? J.K., Scarborough, Ont. Ac…

A new 480-page occupational safety and health catalogue is available from Toronto, Ont.-based Safety House of Canada. Safety House, one of Canada’s major suppliers of safety equipment, medical supplie…