I have been a reader of The Northern Miner since 1928 in Cobalt, Ont., and never thought I would ever see the day when an entire front page (T.N.M., Oct. 31/94) covered only stories of out-of-country …
Base metal markets are brisk in all respects. Smelters and refineries are running flat out, constrained only by their ability to acquire mine feed, and all publicly traded metal prices surged upwards …
In its weekly “Metals” report, Billiton Metals comments on the nickel market and the metal’s recent wide trading band and price rebound: Speculative activity was partly responsible for nickel’s renewe…
The Centre for Resource Studies (CRS) at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., has become leaner and more focused in its research. During the past year, in order to free up funds for research, CRS has…
Geophysical and soil geochemical surveys are in progress on the Buchans base metal property in west-central Newfoundland. Current owner Thunderwood Resources (TSE) reports that the property hosted the…
New York-listed Santa Fe Pacific Gold is set to acquire the Bob Creek gold property in Nevada’s Eureka Cty. To do so, it must spend at least US$150,000 on exploration over the next 12 months, and prog…
Nickel giant Inco (TSE) is moving ahead with plans to advance McCreedy East, its largest undeveloped nickel-copper deposit in Ontario’s Sudbury Basin, to the production stage. The first phase of devel…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. has concluded that certain specific actions should be taken for the Kensington gold project in Alaska to meet environmental requirements and compl…
Two factors helped drag the Toronto Stock Exchange lower over the 5-day report period ended Nov. 15: a falling Canadian dollar and rising Canadian interest rates in the wake of a recent decision by th…
Higher silver prices, and consequently higher revenue, helped Sunshine Mining (NYSE) reduce the loss posted for the third quarter of 1994. The company had a net loss of US$2.9 million on revenue of US…
Junior Aquaterre Mineral Development (VSE) has acquired half of the Georgia River property in northwestern British Columbia. Previous work outlined a drill-indicated and inferred resource of 304,000 t…
The DC-3 airplane emerged from the Second World War as a fitting work-horse and as a useful machine for the years of civilian development that followed. Time would see this marvelous craft straddling …
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