Little light shed on Delgratia salting scandal
Shareholders of Delgratia Mining (DELGF-Q) are finding more questions than answers in a report examining recent work at the company’s Josh property in Nevada.The audit, performed by consulting enginee…
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Output of precious and base metals declines
Canadian production of refined copper, nickel and potash increased in April, compared with the same period last year. However, output of gold, silver, lead, zinc, primary copper, asbestos and salt was…
DIAMOND PAGE — Winspear, Aber recover diamonds from dykes
A total of 149 macros and 252 microdiamonds was recovered by caustic fusion analysis on a 137.1-kg sample obtained from 13 drill holes that intersected kimberlite dykes in a restricted 1-sq.-km area o…
Madison outlines Mt. Kare in PNG
Drilling at the Mt. Kare gold property in Papua New Guinea is attempting to determine the geological controls of the mineralization known to exist along the western side of the Main geochemical anomal…
Indo Pacific readies to drill in PNG
Indo Pacific Resources (IPF-A) will begin a diamond drill program at three of its gold exploration licences in Papua New Guinea.The 3-To-4-Month program, to begin in August, will test secondary or nea…
PEOPLE — YGC Res.
Graham Dickson, Robert Mill and Robert Stroshein appointed directors.
EDITORIAL AND OPINION — Alberta coal mine to preserve 450 jobs — Black gold
High-paying jobs are still hard to come by in Canada, no matter how optimistic economists are that better days are just around the corner. So when a resource project comes along with potential to keep…
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PEOPLE — FREEPORT-McMORAN (June 30, 1997)
G. Bellis appointed vice-president and chief information officer; Lynne Cooney appointed vice-president of executive and administrative support; Dean Falgoust appointed vice-president of tax.
ODDS ‘N’ SODS — Breaking through at the Eagle
In the late 1960s I was working in the engineering department of Agnico Eagle Mines’ Eagle Gold mine, a new project near the town of Joutel in northwestern Quebec.The mine manager there, Harry Pike, w…
Kennecott inks Mexican deal
Kennecott Minerals has signed a letter of intent with a private company to develop a copper mine in the central Mexican state of Zacatecas.According to terms of the deal, Kennecott, a subsidiary of Ri…
Japanese firms to aid IG in Myanmar
Joint-venture deal worth an estimated $167 million in total In need of financing and a contractor to build its proposed Monywa copper mine in Myanmar, Indochina Goldfields (ING-T) has looked to the Ri…