Manitoba in the forties
In 1940, from an apartment in Sherridon, Manitoba, my wife Mary saw her first dog team and her first ptarmigan. That year, as the town celebrated New Year’s, the decorations were centred around one of…
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Protesters disrupt PDAC gala
On the evening of March 9, a grass hut was erected outside the Canadian Room at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto, as part of the Southeast Asian theme of the concluding ceremony of the convent…
Shore Gold raises $100m
Vancouver — Diamond explorer
IGC Resources ties into Blackburn high-grade (March 28, 2005)
Vancouver — Drilling by
TSX Shorts (March 28, 2005)
Short positions outstanding at Mar. 15, 2005 (change from Feb. 28)….
The unending NPI dispute
Fourteen years ago, in a Northern Miner article titled “Vendors, operators battle over NPI royalties” (T.N.M., July 29/91), Virginia Heffernan wrote on the dispute between the net-profit-interest (NPI…
Thistle boosts reserves at Steyn
Revised resource and reserve estimates at the President Steyn gold mine in South Africa’s Free State show a significant increase in reserves on the Steyn 1, Steyn 2 and Steyn 3 shafts. At the same tim…
TSX Venture Shorts (March 28, 2005)
Short positions outstanding at Mar. 15, 2005 (change from Feb. 28)….
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Metalex in Greenland
Vancouver — Diamond exploration partners
Gold weighs down TSX
The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P TSX Composite Index slipped 15.8 points to end the March 16-21 report period at 9,693.5. The nation’s gold miners led the way lower with an 8.42-point, or 4%, fall…
Hillsborough expands into coking coal
Vancouver — Thermal coal producer