PEOPLE — Bema Gold
Thomas Allen and Cole McFarland appointed directors.
News
INAP seeks solutions to acid drainage
Six Canadian companies are spearheading an effort to help control acid drainage at mining projects.Majors Placer Dome, Inco, Noranda, Teck, Rio Algom and Falconbridge are among 17 companies that forme…
Potash gets boost in Argentina
Argentina has been chosen as the site of a branch office of the Potash and Phosphate Institute of Canada.The new office, situated in Buenos Aires, is intended to improve access to South American marke…
Inuvialuit get reprieve from Senate
An aboriginal group from Canada’s Northwest Territories is continuing its efforts to amend the boundaries of a proposed park covering a portion of their territory believed to be prospective for nickel…
Inmet suspends mining at Winston Lake — Reserves to be recalculated during 3-month review period
With zinc prices remaining low and a newly developed ore zone failing to live up to expectations, Inmet Mining (IMN-T) is suspending operations at its troubled Winston Lake zinc-copper mine on the nor…
More mineralization for Cross Lake at Sheraton
Drilling by Cross Lake Minerals (CRN-V) at the Sheraton Twp. property, 40 km east of Timmins, Ont., has intersected more base metal mineralization along an exhalative horizon south of the Destor-Porcu…
Moss acquires discovery
A copper-silver-gold discovery near Quebec’s Val d’Or mining camp has caught the eye of Moss Resources (MRS-T).The Toronto-based junior recently signed an agreement to acquire 30 claims in Denain Twp….
Portuguese zinc-copper project viable
A prefeasibility study indicates that the Aljustrel mining complex in southern Portugal can be brought into production swiftly and economically.Rescan Engineering performed the prefeasibility study wh…
El Callao boosts resource
El Callao Mining (ECM-V) has increased by half a million ounces the overall resource estimate at its Lo Increible gold property in Venezuela.Indicated and inferred resources from six deposits now tota…
EDITORIAL & OPINION — Has gold lost its lustre? — Canada selling again
Gold bugs are nothing if not faithful to their precious metal of choice. Any day now, they say, gold will break out of its below-US$300-per-oz. trading trough and head straight for the stars. Unfortun…
PEOPLE — American Gem (December 14, 1998)
Wayne Beach and Ian Bradley appointed directors; Vic Alboini appointed president.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR — Experience key to reliable geostat data
In response to your editorial “Challenging geostatistics” (T.N.M., Sept. 28-Oct. 4/98), I agree with Jan Merks that the method of ore reserve estimation by kriging within geological limits is incorrec…