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Field operations are under way on two properties in Saskatchewan’s La Ronge gold belt where Troymin Resources is earning a 50% interest from Saskatchewan Mining and Development Corp., Troymin reports….

The sale earlier this year of the company’s holding in Lacana Mining Corp. was one of the major factors leading to a big improvement in earnings reported by Westmin Resources for the first six months….

Cominco Resources has received some encouraging drill results from its 60% owned Kinsley Mtn. gold property in eastern Nevada. U.S. Minerals Exploration Co. holds a 40% participating interest in the 5…

Profit-taking, the troubled U.S. dollar or whatever the reason, the Vancouver market appeared to follow the lead of other stock exchanges this week and pulled back. On the week, the vse index closed d…

Strata Energy Corp. has changed its name to U.S. Platinum Inc. (upt:vse) on a share for share basis.

Both till and rock sampling have located a number of areas of anomalous high gold values on the Wolverine Pond — Trap Pond — Flatwater Pond assemblage of 1,647 claims in the Baie Verte area of Newfo…

TEXT: Cominco Resources International spent $1.9 million on various exploration projects during its first quarter of operation. Feasibility work was also in progress at three projects: Topaz berylliu…

Management of the North American Rare Metals — Dundee-Palliser joint venture Vezza gold project 25 km south of Matagami, Que., are highly encouraged with the findings in the latest hole in its 1987 s…

What probably represents one of the least promoted platinum group metal discoveries in the country has yielded some impressive results. Equinox Resources and Technigen Corp. have completed an extensiv…

Reserves at the end of July stood at more than one million tons at the Renabie Gold Mines’ property in northern Ontario, where significant gold values have been returned at the 3,930-ft level and a $3…

Westar Mining had a 6-month loss of $3.5 million compared to $3.1 million for the same period in 1986. The company’s second quarter loss of $8.1 million was almost identical to the previous year’s. Ac…

A record breaking seven-month period, has witnessed volumes of 424,819,000 shares changing hands, the Alberta Stock Exchange has reported. That compares a record 369,367,000 shares during the same per…