The isolation of many mining camps can affect workers in various ways. Over the years, and at numerous operations, I have observed that the poker game is most likely to occupy idle miners. At times, t…
Metals markets continue to be roiled by conflicting economic reports. Amid the lingering recession, quiet consumer demand and growing inventories, miners and manufacturers are attempting to optimize p…
Vancouver-based junior Home Ventures (VSE) has agreed to a private placement of one million units at 25 cents per unit to raise $250,000. Each unit consists of one Home Venture common share and one no…
I have been hearing a lot about mining developments at Shoal Lake in northwestern Ontario. So far, there has been a lot of heat but no light from Manitoba. Comments in the local press attributed to Co…
Dreams of saving money in Russia’s barren Arctic to buy a home and retire to the temperate south have perished in the grim reality of inflation. Officials say more than 800,000 of the Russian Arctic’s…
Your tribute to Paul Young (T.N.M., Mar. 8/93), longtime mining engineer and mine manager with Rio Algom, contained some minor inaccuracies deserving of clarification. The Pronto mine (1955-1960), fir…
Surface drilling of the Alamos property in Sonora, Mexico is planned by Tenajon Resources (VSE). The property hosts several targets that, collectively, could develop into a heap-leach operation employ…
A $500,000 private placement by Etruscan Enterprises (VSE) will be used to explore its Hackett River property, 160 km northeast of Lac de Gras, N.W.T. The placement consists of 320,513 shares at a pri…
It came as absolutely no surprise that Dia Met Minerals’ Charles Fipke was crowned Prospector of the Year at the annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada. He was the h…
Workers at Cogema Canada’s Cluff Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan are the first in Canada to use a training program in radiation protection. Designed at the Canadian Institute for Radiation …
A Nova Scotian court has strongly rejected the $65-million claim of Westminer Canada Holdings and Westminer Canada against Seabright Resources. Instead, the former Seabright directors were awarded $10…
London Metal Exchange Spot closing prices in $US per tonne, except copper and lead (pounds sterling per tonne) Date Mar. 30 Mar. 29 Mar. 26 Mar. 25 Mar. 24 Copper 1434-1435 1434-1436 1441-1443 1474-14…
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