Baylis to speak at CIM meeting
The president of Crown Butte Resources will speak at the April 18 luncheon of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum, to be held at the Ontario Club in Toronto.John Baylis, who is al…
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COMMENTARY — Community relations in P.N.G.
Placer Dome’s Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea (P.N.G.) is one of the more socially, politically and technically complex mining operations in the world. Besides the task of winning more than 400 …
ODDS’N’SODS — High water and base language
I was employed at New Ontario Machine Works for many years, and it was 1936 when the shop received an urgent telephone call from the Desantis gold mine’s master mechanic, who was sending us the projec…
EDITORIAL — Stay tuned
The battle for control of the rich Voisey’s Bay nickel-copper-cobalt deposit in Labrador has become the business story of the year. Doubtless, many journalists would gladly have traded places with a f…
NEWS IN BRIEF (April 08, 1996)
Peltech Industries (PLN:VSE) has changed its name to Gold Win Ventures (GWV: VSE) on a 1-new-for-5-old-share basis.
Chase and BHP enlarge holdings
Partners Chase Resource (TSE) and BHP Minerals are expanding their ground position in the Philippines by acquiring more than 110,000 hectares in Aurora and Nueva Ecija provinces.The claims are at the …
PRODUCER PRICES (April 01, 1996)
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US75.5 cents-76.5 cents per lb. (March 15, 1996).ANTIMONY: MW New York dealer US$1.85-2.00 per lb. (Feb. 29, 1996).BISMUTH: MW New York dealer US$3.90-4.05 per lb. (Feb. 29, 1…
Carson has yen for diamonds
Trading in Carson Gold (VSE) will remain halted for three months as the company prepares engineering and evaluation reports and carries out due diligence on two proposed acquisitions in China.The comp…
Ditem recovers macros at Temiscamingue
Two more macrodiamonds have been found by Ditem Explorations (ME) in a 75-kg stream sample from the Temiscamingue property near the Quebec town of the same name.One of the stones has a slight yellow c…
EDITORIAL — Now you see it . . .
Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources (EMPR) is no more. Without warning, British Columbia’s new premier, Glen Clark, ordered an end to a ministry that has served the province well ever si…
ODDS’N’SODS — The gold that got away
During the 1930s, I was employed as a smoke tester at a large non-ferrous smelter, where custom ore was ground, sampled and stockpiled until a sufficient supply was on hand for treatment.Notwithstandi…
Tailings spill reported in the Philippines
At the San Antonio copper mine on Marinduque Island in the Philippines, mine staff are attempting to stop an escape of mill tailings from the impoundment into the nearby Boac River.Owner Marcopper, a …