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There could be some sort of poetic justice for the mining industry in a report that sharks are busy eating fibre-optic transmission cables at the bottom of the sea. Indeed we wonder if the industry,…

Don’t count copper out, delegates to a recent meeting of the American Copper Council in Toronto, were told by a metals marketing field expert. Simon Strauss, who has an extensive knowledge of the Amer…

Diamond drilling is planned this summer on the Pinto (north) project of Consolidated NRD Resources in the Malartic area of Quebec, according to Malartic Hygrade Gold Mines (Canada). Malartic reports i…

A highly qualified management team equipped with the financing to open a mine per year by l991 makes Toronto-based Canamax Resources a definite buy according to Gordon McCreary, mining analyst with Al…

More than 350 people from all sectors of the mining industry were recipients of red carpet treatment offered by residents of this northern Quebec community last week. The event was the second annual m…

sampling of the former gold-producing Alpine mine property near Nelson, B.C., plans a detailed sampling of the underground workings as well as along an indicated extension for about one mile of the ve…

presented its Peacock Memorial Prize for 1986 to Michael Jones (left), an M.Sc. student at the department of earth sciences, University of Waterloo, Ont., in recognition of his work on late-stage seco…

While Noranda Inc.’s Gaspe Copper Mines has decided to suspend mining operations completely at its Murdochville, Que., mine site, the company and the Quebec government continue discussions regarding a…

There will be disruptions in mail service because of rotating strikes at the post office. We will continue to publish weekly and will deliver The Northern Miner where conditions permit. Subscribers in…

The legal wrangle which is stalling the sinking of a 1,800-ft shaft on the Brookbank property near Beardmore, Ont., is far from being resolved, Metalore Resources says. Following announcement in The N…

Success abhors a vacuum. Last week, when Seabright Resources poured the first gold bar of what looks like the province’s return to continuous gold production after 40 years, another Nova Scotia compan…

Tyranex Gold reports it has acquired three properties comprised of claims in Knight, Deloro and Pifher twps., Ont. Aggregate consideration for all three properties, the company says, was $10,400, paya…