Drill results are not encouraging from USMX Inc.’s (NASDAQ) Goldbanks Hill propery in Pershing Cty., Nev. The first 11 of 21 holes on the property failed to intersect significant mineralization, the c…
Recent drilling by Athabaska Gold Resources (VSE) has boosted probable and possible reserves at the Nicholas Lake gold project near Yellowknife, N.W.T., to an estimated one million tons grading 0.32 o…
Antelope Resources (VSE) will spend $1 million or more on its Rossland, B.C., gold property this year. The project is a joint venture with Bryndon Ventures (ASE). To date, over 40,000 ft of drilling h…
The following are summaries of a selection of papers delivered at a conference entitled “Off-Highway Haulage in Surface Mines.” Sponsored by the Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (CANMET…
Instantel Inc. of Kanata, Ont., is marketing a new family of seismographs suitable for blast monitoring. The DS-677 BlastMate features electronic storage of up to 30 blast events and a computer interf…
The Greenhills mine in southwestern British Columbia began using a new Demag H285 hydraulic excavator in 1988. The unit is the first in Canada, according to Wajax Industries of Etobicoke, Ont., distri…
Two new light-duty impact breakers have been introduced by Ohio- based Allied. Both hammers feature a patented hydraulic design. A nitrogen gas charge minimizes oil fed by the carrier pump, according …
Pouring in panic across the Atlantic, gold has fled Europe like a refugee from a battlefront. Nothing, in size, to compare has been seen before. The amount received, monthly by the U.S., a little by C…
A plaque commemorating the historic mining town of Brittania Beach, B.C., will be unveiled by Mary Collins, M.P., on May 13. A reunion for former employees and residents of Brittania mines will be hel…
Canada;s `muck-chasers’ meet once a year to swap ideas. Here’s what’s hot. Chasing muck is no picnic. And it’s becoming even more demanding now that base metals prices are on the upswing and more min…
“Sorry, but we just could not raise the money.” These or similar words often immediately precede, or are used to explain, the occurrence of an event of default under an agreement. The result that can …
Not one but two unmanned security huts greet visitors arriving at Placer Dome’s Endako molybdenum mine, the last one proclaiming: “All visitors report here.” It too is empty, but at least it has a tel…
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