Owners of the Crow Butte uranium mine joined their guests for a tour of operations and a country-style celebration to mark the Oct. 17 official opening of the mine, four miles from this prairie commun…
Cominco (TSE) announced it will be operating its zinc refinery at Trail, B.C., at 90% of its 300,000-ton-per-year capacity. The company also announced that further cutbacks would be considered, “if wo…
Drilling at the Point Lake diamond exploration project in the Northwest Territories intersected host-rock kimberlite from 140 metres to 280 metres (the end of the hole), joint venture partners BHP-Uta…
Happy shareholders of Fort Knox Gold (TSE) were reminded during the week ended Nov. 5 of some of the more spectacular stock price rallies of recent mining history. While intersections from Fort Knox’s…
Goldhunter Explorations continued to ride on the coattails of Fort Knox Gold, the TSE-traded explorer that is breathing life into the beleaguered junior mining market. Trading over one million shares …
With mining revenues down and prospecting activities barely a shadow of what they might be, the governments of Canada and of Ontario have injected $95 million into the Northern Ontario Development Agr…
Native issues are rapidly rising to the top of the list of priorities for the federal, provincial and territorial governments of Canada. They could even eclipse environmental priorities which have dom…
The month of October returned the best trading performance of the Vancouver Stock Exchange in more than a year, with volume up 5% from September and 23% from the same period last year. The value of sh…
Vero Resources (ASE) has optioned its 25% interest in the Dee-J and Dee-South gold prospects in Nevada to BHP-Utah Minerals. The junior has also entered into a joint venture agreement with Golden Rege…
Week’s Price (US) Change Gold* $354.40 – $5.40 Silver* $ 4.07 – $0.04 Platinum* $362.25 – $0.75 Nickel** $ 3.34 – $0.03 Lead** $ 0.23 – $0.01 Copper $ 1.08 – $0.01 Zinc $ 0.45 …. Courtesy of Scotiab…
It’s easy to forget just how much mining contributes to the general economy because so much of mining’s benefits are felt in remote areas. The money individual mines pump into their local communities …
After reading “The facade of Soviet mining,” an excerpt from a paper by Pierre Lassonde (T.N.M., Oct. 21/91), I was disappointed that The Northern Miner could not do any better on the topic of Soviet …
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