An unpaid $45 annual rental fee required to keep a mining lease in good standing triggered a chain of events that resulted in Catear Resources forfeiting the Goldwedge property in northwestern British…
The annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) has many highlights for the mining industry. Among them is the presentation of the PDAC’s prestigious awards, which…
Drill core presents hard, irrefutable evidence of what lies beneath the earth’s surface, but the cross-sectional area of the core is tiny compared with the prospective area as a whole. Nevertheless, v…
I note you published an article entitled “Black Swan Running In Red” (T.N.M., March 4/91). While I cannot argue with the facts which you set out in the article, I strongly disagree with your interpret…
TEXT: Local mining analysts are not expecting 1991 to be a banner year for exploration in British Columbia. The general economic downturn, the gutted flow-through financing mechanism, bearish equity …
Junior mining companies in Canada, slowed by a slumping economy, can only look back fondly at the heady days of the late 1980s when financing for exploration programs was readily accessible. Flow-thro…
With a reduction of 60% in U.S. zinc smelter capacity during the last 25 years there has been a consolidation in the industry favouring the integrated producer, the enterprise that mines, smelts, refi…
Exploration-oriented juniors which make the transition to gold producers without stumbling are few and far between. Crown Resources (VSE) is something of an anomaly, in that the company has yet to suf…
Darrell Curtis appointed a director succeeding Laurence Sookochoff who resigned.
“The best place to look for a new mine is near one,” is a tried and true exiom of the business. And by the same token, new ore deposits are frequently discovered close by known ones. Indeed the histor…
Noranda Exploration (Norex) plans to spend $75-80 million this year for grassroots exploration in North America says President John Harvey. Noranda Exploration conducts mineral exploration on behalf o…
TGA Management, a private company that owns a controlling 19.5% stake in Parlake Resources (TSE), is preparing to tighten its hold on the Toronto-based junior exploration company. Under an agreement w…
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