Inco donates $1 million to Queen’s
A gift of $1 million to provide students in the department of mining engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., with modern laboratory facilities has been pledged by Inco (TSE). Spread over …
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Equipment exhibition in sudbury June 19-21
The northern Ontario city of Sudbury, Ont., will attract a large number of visitors from other parts of Canada and around the world when it hosts the 1990 Canadian Mining & Industrial Equipment Exhibi…
Ottawa doing away with CEIP
Less than two years after introducing its Canadian Exploration Incentives Program (CEIP), the federal government is eliminating the controversial scheme in an attempt to reduce the burgeoning deficit….
IOCC GOLD OPTIONS (February 26, 1990)
Options Open SeriesVolumeLastInterest May 390 C 13138.50 407 May 410 C 17624.00 842 May 420 C 94019.401,768 May 430 C 13812.001,261 May 440 C 180 9.801,492 May 450 C 258 6.50 637 Aug. 420 C 7626.00 70…
PRODUCER PRICES (February 26, 1990)
ALUMINUM: MW U.S. Market US65.00- 67.00cents per lb. (Feb. 15, 1990). ANTIMONY: New York dealer US84-86cents per lb. (Feb. 15, 1990). BISMUTH: New York dealer US$4.30-4.40 per lb. (Feb. 8, 1990). CADM…
Radisson decides against purchase of Beauchastel
The Beauchastel mining installations of Augmitto Explorations (TSE) near Rouyn-Noranda, Que., will not be purchased by Radisson Mining Resources (ME). Radisson, searching for milling facilities for it…
FUTURES PRICES (February 26, 1990)
N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (HG) (in UScents per lb.) Feb 114.55 114.30 114.55 + 9.10 Mar 115.10 112.10 113.00 + 8.80 Apr 110.60 110.50 110.25 + 7.35 SILVER (in US cent…
Access to lands vital to industry’s future
This is the first of a regular monthly column from the British Columbia and Yukon Chamber of Mines The 1990s present a number of challenges for the mineral exploration industry in British Columbia and…
Taylor and Zunkel win TMS Best Paper Award
John Taylor and Alan Zunkel recently received The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Extractive Metallurgy Best Paper Award for their joint effort, “Integrated Primary/Secondary Pb Smelting.” …
GAC/MAC plan trip to Kyushu, Japan
The Geological Association of Canada (GAC) and the Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC) are seeking 15 people to spend nine days on the island of Kyushu in Japan this May. The trip will concentra…
Startup troubles reported at Cominco smelter, Red Dog
Startup difficulties have plagued the new lead smelter owned by Cominco (TSE) in Trail, B.C., where the company has been experiencing problems since mid-December. The primary operating problem is asso…
CSA buying shares
CSA Management Ltd. says, subject to TSE approval and appropriate filings being made, it intends to make a normal course issuer bid for up to 192,312 A non-voting shares, or about 10% of the public fl…