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The new president of the Association of Professional Geologists and Geophysicists of Quebec (apggq) is France Goupil. An engineer and geophysicist, Goupil won the Dominique-Rollin Award of Excellence…

The family of Sir Julius Chan, deputy prime minister of Papua New Guinea, is reported to have made a profit of $1.4 million(A) through the 1986 initial share offering of Placer Pacific, a company cont…

Teck Corp. holds 34 coal licences in an area about 40 km to the northwest of the Bullmoose mine. Burnt River coal is ranked as semi-anthracite and 30-40 million tonnes of reserves could be recovered b…

Assay results have just come in from a placer gold property on the lower reaches of McConnell Creek in B.C. Property owner Augdome Corp. has decided to issue 160,000 preference shares (at $1 each) to …

With arrangements made with MVP for $1.5 million flow-through funding, Camreco Inc. plans a major drilling program on its northwestern Ontario properties including its recently acquired Goldlund Mines…

The first gold bar from the Casa Berardi area of northwestern Quebec is scheduled to be poured in August, 1988 — seven years after the original Golden Pond discovery was made by Inco Ltd and more tha…

With $1 million in the treasury from a recent private placement, Esperanza Explorations will be mounting a major exploration and development program this spring at its Tillicum property in northeaster…

A high grade gold zone has been encountered by Goldpost Resources in the crosscut which has been driven through the Gibson west zone in the Hislop west property in northeastern Ontario. Both walls of …

A drilling program is slated for May by Interquest Resources Corp. at its Drumlummon mine property located in Marysville, Mon. At the turn of the century the Drumlummon mine was the largest gold produ…

The interior of a large cathedral in this thriving Mexican town boasts silver- covered arches reminiscent of an earlier and even more prosperous age. In terms of recorded silver production, the area r…

Joining forces to offer a national Mining Industry Communications Workshop June 2-4 at the new Westin Hotel in Denver are the American Mining Congress and the National Coal Association. Half-day train…

A call for papers is being issued for the seventh international conference on ground control in mining, to be held Aug 3-5, 1988, at Morgantown, West Virginia. Papers are invited in the field of groun…