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Herbert Kototow appointed president and director; Ken Wolfson, Allan Will and Barry Nash appointed directors.

Toronto-based William Resources (WIM-T) will soon begin a US$4-million program aimed at testing several gold properties in Sweden and Finland.In December 1996, following its takeover of Swedish-based …

Sampling by Lyon Lake Mines (LLL-M) at the Canamazo concession on Costa Rica’s Beta Vargas gold property has revealed five areas of gold mineralization.Recent results have enabled Lyon Lake to identif…

Consortiums have started to coalesce among the qualified bidders for the assets of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM), the mining company in which the Zambian government holds a 60.3% interest.Th…

Robert Shirriff and William Dengler appointed directors.

Stewart Jackson apponted director.

Vancouver-based Norcal Resources (NLR-V) and Gold Giant Minerals (GNR-V) have staked more than 1,300 contiguous claims in a newly discovered volcano-sedimentary belt near Val d’Or, Que.Dubbed the Norg…

Richard Silas appointed director and Barry Whelan appointed president.

Raymond Collin, a prolific prospector from northern Ontario, has died. He was 52.A native of Timmins, Ont., Collin’s prospecting career began when he was still a teenager. Over his 35-year career, he …

Underground drilling by Omni Resources (ORI-V) at the Goddell Shear project in the Mount Skukum area of southern Yukon intersected a significant interval of gold mineralization in an unexplored sectio…

An eerie silence prevails over the mills and monstrous open pits at the Kambove and Kakanda mining areas — an indication that Zaire, once a powerful player in the copper market and the world’s leadin…

Waddy Lake Resources, a wholly owned unit of Golden Rule Resources (GNU-T), will apply for a temporary closure permit for the Komis gold mine in Saskatchewan.Operations were suspended earlier this yea…