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RTZ, Freeport-McMoRan partnership in Indonesia

An agreement with Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE) and its offspring, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE), sets the stage for RTZ (NYSE) and its subsidiary, RTZ America, to become involved in exploration and…


Drills turning at Damoti Lake

The first three holes of a planned 60-hole program on the Damoti Lake property in the Northwest Territories has expanded the Horseshoe-Pyrite gold zone. Consolidated Ramrod Gold (TSE) extended the str…


CLAIMS in Kirkland Lake

The mining recorder’s office in Kirkland Lake, Ont., has become the ninth provincial site to offer electronic access to information on mining claims. This has been made possible by the expansion of th…


Canadian record in raise boring

Raise bore crews of Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada have set a Canadian record. The site of the feat was the Trout Lake mine in Flin Flon, Man., belonging to Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting. A 16…






Nevada’s `School of Mines’

An elementary school in Henderson, Nev., is trying to interest students in mining through construction of the “McCaw School of Mines.” Funding, materials and manpower are being donated to the 4,649-sq…


ODDS’N’SODS — Preserving Bruce Mines

A mining-tourism project has been under way during the past few years in the town of Bruce Mines in northern Ontario. Other than some small “Indian diggings” at Mamainse and Alexander Henry’s 30-ft. e…


Diabex cuts two gold intervals

On the Desjardines property in northwestern Quebec, Diabex Resources (ME) has intersected two gold showings with one drill hole. The hole was drilled to test two geophysical anomalies associated with …


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