Letters to the Editor Thanks for almost nothing
Re your editorial Thank Wilson, for small mercies, and related articles June 29: The proposals contained in the White Paper on Tax Reform provide a great challenge to the survival of a stable and heal…
News
Tashogan options Beardmore ground
Tashogan Minerals, a private company based in Willowdale, Ont., intends to merge with vse- listed Collins Resources, in part, to help finance work on a promising piece of ground in the Beardmore area …
Montreal Exchange Actvity in Ungava
A record-breaking performance on the Montreal Exchange gave way to less heady trading, with both the market portfolio and mining and minerals index experiencing a downturn during the latter part of th…
Pan East, Greenstrike expect to be underground by end of ’87
Geologist Bernard Gallant, president of Calgary-based Pan East Resources expects to see his company’s exploration project at Fifteen Mile Stream in Halifax Cty., N.S., go to an underground program in …
Goldbrae active
Exploration work has commenced at Goldbrae Developments’ Tartan Lake property in northern Manitoba. The initial program will include soil sampling, geological mapping, prospecting, hand trenching, and…
General News & Comment FAME grants double in British Columbia
Direct assistance to prospectors through British Columbia’s Financial Assistance for Mineral Exploration (fame) program have been doubled this year. Grants up to $5,000 are now available to qualified …
Freewest options Noranda property
Freewest Resources has acquired an option on claims held by Noranda Exploration in the Harker- Holloway area north of Kirkland Lake, Ont. Freewest has the right to earn a 32% interest in the Noranda c…
Pioneer Metals seeks control of Silbak mining division
VANCOUVER — Being “first in the door” has its advantages, according to the president of Pioneer Metals, Robert D Willis. Nine months ago his company approached British Silbak Premier Mines about part…
People (July 20, 1987)
M.A. Hanna Co. — M. Jan van Veelen appointed director of European iron ore sales; Edward G. Jaicks named manager North American iron ore sales.
Construction work gets under way at Ketza River
Construction work has started on the Ketza River project of Canamax Resources and Pacific Trans Ocean Resources. Camp facilities are being installed, clearing of the mill site is under way, and road a…
Energy ups holdings adjoining Owl Creek
Energy International Overseas Corp. has now acquired 16 contiguous claims in the Timmins area adjoining Falconbridge’s Hoyle Pond and Owl Creek gold mines on the north, Geo. S. White, president, advis…
NSR helps finance exploration work on Rand Malartic
Toronto-based NSR Resources has obtained regulatory and shareholder approval to finance about half of a $4.4-million exploration program at the Rand Malartic property in Quebec. The balance of the fun…