PRODUCER PRICES (February 22, 1993)
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US55-56 cents per lb. (Feb. 4, 1993). ANTIMONY: MW New York dealer US78-88 cents per lb. (July 30, 1992). BISMUTH: MW New York dealer US$2.35-2.70 per lb. (June 11, 1992). CAD…
News
Canmine detects gravity anomaly
Canmine Resources (CDN) says a gravity anomaly recently detected on its Fer property in Manitoba suggests polymetallic mineralization intersected there last winter has a minimum strike length of 500 m…
Ocean drilling withdrawal by Canada sparks furor
Canada’s decision to pull out of a major international ocean drilling effort has put the collaborative program in jeopardy and cut the mining industry off from a valuable source of exploration researc…
Wayside drilling continues
Underground drilling at the Wayside mine near Goldbridge, B.C., is continuing in an effort to test the former producer’s future potential. Joint venture partners Wayside Gold Mines (VSE) and Brigadier…
Diamond hunt gains momentum in Quebec
Diamond fever has spread to the Montreal area and the Abitibi (northwestern) region of Quebec. In the Montreal region, mining entrepreneur Peter Ferderber of Val d’Or, Que., has staked more 200,000 ac…
COMMENTARY — Copper in the 1990s
Copper is an investment idea for the 1990s. For the past 70 years, world copper consumption has mirrored industrial production. Industrial production is now increasing dramatically because various reg…
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — Northern lands and northerners
I have been a subscriber to The Northern Miner for more than 30 years (and my late brother Nial was a subscriber before that). Personally, I have been engaged in prospecting and mining and am now acti…
NO HEADLINE (February 15, 1993)
Several mining companies are gearing up to begin exploration programs on properties near the Pipeline gold discovery of Placer Dome in Crescent Valley, Nev. Noranda Exploration is about to begin, on b…
Mine waste pilot program
A graduate program on mine waste issues is now available at Montana Tech in Butte, Mont. The program is designed to train students to identify and test technologies for mineral waste cleanup.
Pilot project completed at Cigar Lake project
A test phase of mining has been completed by Cigar Lake Mining at its Cigar Lake uranium deposit in northern Saskatchewan. The pilot project demonstrated that the high-grade orebody can be safely mine…
WGM to market Russian expertise
Toronto-based consulting firm Watts, Griffis and McOuat (WGM) has reached a joint venture agreement with Almazy Rossia-Sakha of Russia to provide exclusive diamond exploration and mining services to t…
PEOPLE — AZCO MINING/SANCHEZ MINING — David Beling
John Sadowski appointed vice-president, exploration.