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The mining of sphalerite, the ore mineral of zinc, is headed for a downturn in Canada. But you’d never suspect it, judging from the amount of money being spent developing new mines and modernizing old…

Canada, as the records in the bulky annual number of The Northern Miner revealed last month, is in the midst of a vast program of mineral development. Probably in no country in the world is mining and…

Lead surprised just about everyone when it averaged 27 (US) per lb on the London Metals Exchange during 1987, an increase over 18 in 1986. It was a turnaround year for the metal, the price of which ha…

Cobalt, Ont., is justly Cfamous for its silver mines and the turn-of-the- century boom that made it the cradle of Canadian mining. It was a time of unbounded optimism and new developments in mineral p…

Nineteen-eighty-eight has seen unexpected prices for most mine products. Base metal markets have been characterized by very tight immediate supply from terminal markets leading to very high prompt pri…

The Namew Lake nickel-copper deposit, 60 km south of Flin Flon, Man., hosts diluted recoverable ore reserves of 2.58 million tonnes grading 2.44% nickel, 0.9% copper, 0.102 g gold per tonne, 4.11 g si…

Something is going on in the Canadian uranium industry. It’s happening rather quietly, and it doesn’t involve the junior resource sector or most of Canada’s major mining companies. Foreign companies a…

We pulled on overalls, stepped into high rubber boots, donned hardhats, checked our lamps and got into Mine Foreman Reg Swain’s new Toyota Jeep. As daylight faded behind us, our eyes adjusted to the g…

In the summer of 1915, Thomas Creighton and five fellow prospectors staked what has become one of the biggest mining operations in Canada. But at the time, they believed it to be a gold deposit. The c…

A 10,000-ft drill program has been completed by Orofino Resources (TSE) on the company’s Coronation Gulf gold property in the Northwest Territories. The property is held under option from Canuc Resour…

Low coal prices and high taxation have had a devastating impact on British Columbia’s coal mining industry, according to a report by The Coopers & Lybrand Consulting Group. The industry’s return on co…

Anderson Expl. — BC Sugar Refinery bought 164,706 (Sept, private) to hold 3,684,848. Kerr Addison bought 392,157 (Sept, private) to hold 6,202,281. Atlantic Goldfields — A. Howe sold 257,000 to hold…