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Just months after its revival on the Vancouver Stock Exchange, Toronto-based Canadian Overseas Exploration (VSE) has recovered 2,293 diamonds weighing a total of 1,096 carats from its joint venture op…

A 2-day conference focusing on major markets for industrial minerals, Industrial Minerals ’92, is scheduled to take place Oct. 20-21 at Toronto’s King Edward Hotel. Markets and products to be covered …

Mentor Exploration (TSE) recently upped its exposure to any developments at Agnico-Eagle Mines’ (TSE) Joutel division in Quebec where a new gold find has helped drive the shares to a 52-week high of $…

Copper is the “metal of the 1990s,” says Robert Dengler, chairman and chief executive officer of Dynatec International. Today the average single-family home in North America requires 422 lb. copper, c…

Environmental approval is all that is needed for Curragh (TSE) to open a strip coal mine at Stellarton, N.S. The project is three kilometres from the Westray mine where an explosion in May killed 26 m…

Less than two weeks after Vancouver-based Hughes Lang (VSE) withdrew a bid for control of Nova-Cogesco Resources (ME), the Vancouver company has come up with a second offer. Under the latest proposal,…

The Northwest Territories once again dominated investor interest on western markets, although this time it wasn’t diamonds and gold generating all the excitement. San Andreas Resources reported some h…

ALUMINUM: MW U.S. market US59.75-60.75 cents per lb. (Jul. 9, 1992). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US78-88 cents per lb. (Jun. 11, 1992). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$2.35-2.70 per lb. (Jun. 11, 1992). CAD…

Aubrey Paverd and John Dow elected vice-presidents, exploration.

Michael Parrett appointed director.

Donald Williams appointed director.

Karl Pohl appointed director.