Three years ago, Rex Gibbons typed a short resignation letter and walked out the door of the Newfoundland Department of Mines where he had worked as a senior geologist for 13 years. One month later he…
Commenting on the 1991 performance of Asarco (NYSE) at a recent meeting of the Toronto Society of Financial Analysts (TSFA), Chairman Richard de J. Osborne said it was “not a great earnings year.” Asa…
(Staff) — The Duncan R. Derry Medal — the highest award that can be bestowed on a geoscientist in Canada — was given here twice recently to Jim Franklin of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Th…
Due to a lack of shareholder response, Inland Gold and Silver (NASDAQ) and Pegasus Gold (TSE) will not proceed with a previously proposed merger. Pegasus offered Inland shareholders the equivalent of …
A net loss of $6.5 million was reported for 1991 by Valdez Gold (ASE), which has a 25% interest in the Valdez Creek gold placer mining project in Alaska. For the first quarter of 1992, the company rec…
Canadian ore reserves quoted by Inco (TSE) for the year ending 1991 are 401 million short tons grading 1.44% nickel and 0.85% copper. Not high grade by any measure. Technical and organizational improv…
Sulphide samples from bacterially assisted leaching at the Ivan copper project in Chile are being sent to a laboratory for testing, Minera Rayrock (TSE) reports. The company says acceptable recoveries…
A drill program is planned by Adonos Resources (VSE) and Starmin Mining (TSE) for their copper-gold project in the Philippines to test, in part, the deposit’s strike extension. As well, the program wi…
Both the Vancouver Stock Exchange resource and composite indices continued to gain ground during the week ended June 2 with diamond exploration remaining the “special of the week”. The composite index…
First drilling results of a $3-million exploration program undertaken this spring on the polymetallic Lansdowne property in northwestern Ontario indicate promising copper values over significant width…
FREE MARKET London Metal Exchange Spot closing prices in $US per tonne, except copper and lead (pounds sterling per tonne)…
Subject to environmental permitting, the Thayer Lindsley (TL) project in the Sudbury, Ont., area is expected to be a producer in the near future. Though long known to Falconbridge, it wasn’t until rec…
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