Mineral exploration has been a boon to the Red Lake, Ont., district during the past year. In fact, the sum total of employment generated by those looking for mines rivals that of the Campbell Red Lake…
Drilling by X-Cal Resources on the company’s Snowbird gold property near Fort St. James, B.C., has doubled the strike length of the main gold mineralized zone to more than 4,000 ft. The additional str…
The mineral specimens were magnificent — massive magnetite- chalcopyrite, boulder-sized. The geologists had just brought them in from the field, 2000 miles by foot, helicopter and ‘plane. It was late…
Skarn-type deposits have been minor but steady producers of gold throughout history. More than one million kilograms of gold have been produced from 50 skarn deposits worldwide. This represents only t…
The Golden Harker gold property located north of here has Lenora Explorations excited, so much so that President Robert Kasner is hoping to make a production decision by June of this year, The Norther…
As a long-time resident of Red Lake, I saw large scale exploration carried out in 1945-49 when over 100 properties were being worked, with two prolific gold mines found — Campbell and Dickenson. Thes…
The following is a list of exploration in the Red Lake area over the past year and projected activities for 1988. Re-exploring known sites Much of the exploration activity in 1987 was dedicated to …
There was once a time when almost every home had a coalbin in the cellar. Shiny black nuggets rolled into the bin from the coalman’s truck providing fuel for the furnace. The coalbin held a certain fa…
Most gold deposits in Nevada’s Carlin trend are associated with north-south-trending normal faults in both upper and lower plate rocks adjacent to the Roberts Mountain thrust fault. In recent years, h…
The level of exploration activity in British Columbia was up sharply last year, according to the B.C. & Yukon Chamber of Mines. Charles A. Aird, president, told the chamber’s annual meeting that 1987 …
With major programs completed on several of the company’s properties, 1987 was a busy year for Consolidated Silver Standard Mines, shareholders learned at the annual meeting. Approximately $1 million …
Joint venture partners Amir Mines, Normine Mines and Glamis Gold have agreed to form a new operating company, Idaho Gold Corp., to develop two Idaho heap leach properties. The new company will be own…
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