A BREAKNECK PACE Golden Patricia
A few years ago, St. Joe Gold Corp. was spun off as a publicly traded company to oversee St. Joe Minerals’ (the parent firm’s) gold holdings in the Western Hemisphere. Overnight, St. Joe became a gold…
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WHAT’S NEW Clinometer
Emaco (Canada) has introduced the new AccuStar Clinometer. The unit is an electronic sensor that measures vertical angles. It is available as either an analog input/ output or digital input/output dev…
Cross-Cuts THOSE GRASPING CANADIANS
Here’s a curious twist. U.S. energy producers ear that “the Canadians” might grab a larger piece of the U.S. energy market. (This must be a reversal of the wolf sweeping down on the fold.) Their conce…
Suggestion Box A PORTABLE SOLUTION
With the proliferation of flow-through financing, some exploration companies have found it nearly impossible to find a drill rig. In the winter drilling season last year, at least one junior company, …
A BREAKNECK PACE St Andrew
It’s been a while coming, but it finally appears that this will be the year St Andrew Goldfields will put its Stock Twp. property into production. Reconnaissance surface drilling first identified the …
A BREAKNECK PACE Timmins Tailings
This is one of at least three mining projects in Canada that will be recovering gold from old mine tailings this year. Located in the biggest gold camp in the country, it is also the biggest and poten…
A BREAKNECK PACE Cape Spencer
Although the company poured its first gold bar in June, 1986, Gordex Minerals of Saint John, N.B., had to find a technological fix to bring its small Cape Spencer gold mine officially into commercial …
Mining community protests flow-through changes
A large group of mining industry people concerned about the future of flow-though funding attended a pre-Christmas rally in Val d’Or, Que., organized by the Quebec Prospectors Association. Regie Labea…
Lively intersection by San Paulo at Leitch mine
A discovery that could well prove important has been made by San Paulo Explorations in an exploratory drill hole in a program it has recently started on the Leitch mine property at Beardmore in northw…
Christmas Cheer absent amongst market traders
There was little seasonal cheer for the majority of the resource issues on The Toronto Stock Exchange this week. Sloppy, directionless trading and continuing nervousness following the Oct 19th de…
Musto plans to reopen Apex mine
VANCOUVER — Working to redress the problems which forced the September closure of its Apex mine near St. George, Utah, Musto Explorations hopes to reopen the gallium and germanium-producing plants in…
Correction (December 28, 1987)
In a reference to the real estate interests of Agnico-Eagle Mines carried in our Investment Comments column, it was incorrectly stated that the new arm could be liquidated immediately at a profit of $…