Royalties — a cold chill to the producer but gravy to the royalty-holder. It all started in the days when the king owned the land and all that therein lay. And while royal personages have all but van…
Sixteen geologists from Canada, the U.S., Australia and Chile investigated copper and gold deposits of the Tucson-La Caridad-Hermosillo triangle of Arizona and Mexico last February. What follows is a …
Contained proven and probable gold reserves for operations and projects involving Amax Gold (NYSE) jumped to 10.8 million oz., up 40% over the year ended Dec. 31, 1992. Amax’s share of the reserve tot…
Step-out drilling at the Prairie Creek project, 300 miles east of Yellowknife, N.W.T., intersected 29.5 ft. grading 8.72% lead, 18.66% zinc and 4.23 oz. silver per ton in hole PC-92-23. San Andreas Re…
Chile’s mines minister recently told a Canadian audience that vast areas of his country, especially in the south, have received little exploration despite many indications of deposits. He predicted th…
The president of the Reform Party of Canada will discuss government cost-cutting at a joint luncheon of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and the Canadian Club, March 29, at Toronto…
Drills will soon begin turning on Noranda’s (TSE) York Harbour base metal property in central Newfoundland. Owned 80% by Noranda and 20% by Cumberland Resources (VSE), York Harbour is a former produci…
The Yukon government has attached sweeping conditions to a $29-million loan guarantee for lead-zinc-silver producer Curragh (TSE), Canadian Press reports. Conditions range from a first mortgage on ass…
Eskay Gold Corp. (ES:VSE) has changed its name to Consolidated Eskay Gold Corp. (CKO:VSE) with a consolidation of capital on a 1-new-for-1.8-old-share basis. The transfer agent is Pacific Corporate Tr…
Ontario Hydro Chairman Maurice Strong, who recently announced a major overhaul of the provincial utility, will speak at the April 29 luncheon of the Toronto branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining,…
A surface pulse electromagnetic (EM) survey is under way on Challenger Minerals’ (TSE) Marshall Lake base metal property, 160 miles northeast of Thunder Bay, Ont. The survey is searching for the down-…
A toxic gas leak in the Sudbury, Ont., area during the summer of 1990 has cost Falconbridge $180,000 in fines. The nickel-copper producer was convicted in a Sudbury court on six of nine counts under t…
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