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Markets up, miners follow

A quarter-point move in U.S. interest rates didn’t dampen enthusiasm on Wall Street in the reporting period Nov. 10-16. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, at 10,487.65, and the S&P 500, at 1,175.43, were both about 1% higher after generally buoyant…


PDAC seeks accounting standards

The following is a recent open letter from the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada to Ronald Salole, director of accounting standards with the Toronto-based Accounting Standards Board.


Int’l Minerals defines Rio Blanco deposit

Vancouver — As part of an ongoing feasibility study, International Minerals (IMZ-T) has completed definition drilling on the Rio Blanco gold-silver project in south-central Ecuador.



Frank Beales

Frank Beales, former professor of geology at the University of Toronto and McMaster University in Hamilton, has died. He was 85.


Laudrum to discuss Polaris

Geologist and environmental expert Arlene Laudrum will discuss remediation work at Teck Cominco’s Polaris mine in far northern Nunavut, at the next luncheon meeting of the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petrol…




Silver lining for food processing

In a world where there is increasing concern over the safety of food and how it is processed, packaged and stored, health experts are turning increasingly to silver-based biocides. The biocides are chemical agents capable of destroying living orga…


Tom Gledhill in the early 1950s.

T.R. (Tom) Gledhill

Well-known geophysicist and geological engineer T.R. (Tom) Gledhill of Toronto has passed away. He was 74.



Juniors pumped as gold moves to 18-year highs

The big news this week for the junior mining sector is the gold price which managed to make it past the US$440 mark with participants cheering the climb. Venture Exchange-listed companies were looking up, however, there is still a lot of weakness…


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