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Inco Gold, the recently-created company that handles Inco Ltd.’s gold exploration and development, will spend $40 million this year searching for precious metals around the world. This represents a 52…

During the past three years, exploration expenditures have increased fourfold in the Pickle Lake, Meen Dempster and North Caribou areas of northwestern Ontario. By any measure, the money that has been…

Northair Mines has been developing the Willa property, in south eastern British Columbia, with partners bp Selco and Rio Algom. More than $10 million has been spent on exploration and development to d…

The Hughes-Lang Group has grown to such an extent over recent years that it now comprises some 20 dif- ferent companies. The company has major programs in western and eastern Canada, the Yukon, Mexico…

There comes a time in every explorationist’s life when he or she must enter upon private property. In most cases, no problems will be encountered, but every so often they are. The problem usually take…

As the dominant property-owner and principal mine-finder along the Carlin gold trend, near Elko, Nev., Newmont Gold has never felt the need to boast about its activities. A portfolio of 15 deposits an…

The Canadian mine-finding fraternity is jittery. Over the past three or four years, easy money (relatively speaking) has been available, thanks in large measure to the federal government’s brilliant t…

LEP Chemical, a major chemical manufacturer in the United Kingdom, has come up with a rather remarkable solution to the time-consuming problem of repairing conveyor belts which develop tears and rips …

“You can send them to charm school, you can polish them up, but real managers are born. If you don’t have the latent talent you won’t be a good manager.” John Hansuld, whose grip on the wide-open thro…

In mining court in Toronto recently, Mr Justice Godson reserved judgment in the matter of the application of Kerr-Addison Mines for permission to dump slimes into a bay on the northeast arm of Larder …

Your introduction to my article, which you entitled “Dubunking a Myth” (see January issue), says: “Junior exploration firms aren’t the mine-finders par excellence they’re made out to be. According to …

It looks very much like the flow-through gravy train is making its last whistle stop. Last year, $1 billion was raised through flow-through share financings for grassroots and more advanced exploratio…