Soquem signs deals for properties
Quebec Crown corporation Soquem has signed agreements concerning two properties in the province. One of the agreements involves Orient Resources (ME) and Consolidated Gold Hawk Resources (ASE) and con…
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BOOKS IN REVIEW — Making mining agreements
Mining Exploration Agreements, by Karl J.C. Harries, Q.C. Published by the Centre for Resources Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont. K7L 3N6. 342 pages. $40 plus GST. This new book will be of i…
Fancamp explores Quebec property
Junior Fancamp Resources (VSE) has acquired a 34-claim copper property at Baie-Johan-Beetz, near Havre-St. Pierre on Quebec’s northern shore. The company is looking for large-tonnage copper mineraliza…
New calendar offered for sale in Territories
Orders are being taken for the Yellowknife Women Geoscientists 1995 Calendar. Proceeds will go to the Walter Gibbins Memorial Fund, which is used to promote earth science education in the Northwest Te…
Eldorado snaps up La Colorada
The exercise of a purchase option gives Eldorado (TSE) total ownership of La Colorada, an open-pit heap-leach gold mine in Mexico. The company will pay Campbell Resources (TSE) US$5 million for its 30…
EDITORIAL PAGE — Two thumbs up for CANMET
Governments are always criticized for doing things wrong and rarely praised for doing things right. But one government initiative that clearly merits “two thumbs up” is the Canadian Centre for Mineral…
Cusac closes Table Mountain
Milling operations at the Table Mountain property in northern British Columbia have been shut down so that additional reserves can be outlined. Owner Cusac Industries (TSE) put the mine back into prod…
Miramar extends mineralized trends
Underground drilling at Miramar Mining’s (TSE) Con mine near Yellowknife, N.W.T., has intersected extensions to two mineralized trends in areas that previously saw little exploration. The 101-102 tren…
AECL report: Canadian Shield safe for nuclear waste burial
Nuclear waste can be safely buried in the Canadian Shield, according to a federal environmental impact statement. The report, based on 15 years of research by Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL), says spen…
BOOKS IN REVIEW — Kimberlites in British Columbia
Carbonatites, Nepheline Syenites, Kimberlites & Related Rocks in British Columbia, by Jennifer Pell. Published by the British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Geological Sur…
Cambior increases Argentine exposure
Montreal-based Cambior (TSE) will buy a 40% interest in a company that owns a project with a mineral inventory of 500 million tonnes averaging 0.75% copper, based on a cutoff grade of 0.5% copper. Pac…
Development program for Inco’s Victor deposit
A $72-million development program on Inco’s (TSE) high-grade Victor copper-nickel deposit near Sudbury, Ont., is under way. The program, scheduled for completion over the next three years, will includ…