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Litigation which has been proceeding for more than a year in connection with the Ross Mine, Hislop Twp development of Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines, was brought to an end last week by a decision f…

Teck Corp. holds (subject to a 5% assessable interest by Ranger Oil) 25 coal licences immediately to the east of the Bullmoose property. Elevations range from 1,000 metres above sea level at Bullmoose…

The sixth edition of the Catalogue of Geophysical and Geochemical Instrumentation is now available from Scintrex Ltd. More than 20 new products, including the highly successful igs Integrated Geophysi…

Published reserves at Teck Corp.’s 100%-owned Beaverdell mine show enough silver ore for just one more year of mining. But don’t write the epitaph for this operation just yet. There has seldom been mo…

When we sat down to plan for an issue of The Northern Miner Magazine that would feature Teck Corp., we did so because we felt Teck was an example of the best in Canadian mining. Teck has been an innov…

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…