Knut Kuhner
Prospector Knut Kuhner, who discovered the platinum group metals (PGM) deposit that later became the Lac Des les palladium mine, has died. He was 73.Born in Hamburg, Germany, Kuhner came to Port Arth…
Houston Lake Mining Inc
PGM search intensifies in Ontario
An increasing interest from the majors and an ongoing price rally are adding momentum to the search for platinum and palladium deposits in northern Ontario. At last count, more than a dozen companies …
Angus, Cabot explore for tantalum in Greenland
In January 2000, shortly after its formation, Angus & Ross obtained a 414-sq.-km exploration licence covering a tantalum-and-niobium-bearing deposit within the Motzfeldt Centre of the Igaliko nephelin…
Metal markets anything but shiny in 2000
While it didn’t provide the unremitting gloom of the years immediately following the Asian economic crisis, 2000 might be remembered by many metal producers as the year of the recovery that never was….
Gabriel exec cashes in warrants
Recent insider trading transactions reported by the Ontario Securities Commission in its OSC Bulletin include the following:- Copper Ridge Explorations (KRX-V) — Gerald Carlson, director, bought 3,50…
More juniors join search for platinum group metals
Economically interesting deposits of platinum group metals (PGMs) are few and far between on planet earth, with more than 90% of the world’s supply coming from only three mining camps: Bushveld in Sou…
Houston eyes Tib Lake palladium
Junior Houston Lake Mining (HLM-V) is performing an induced-polarization survey at its Tib Lake property, near Thunder Bay, Ont., in hopes of discovering new palladium zones.Tib Lake comprises 1,632 h…
Price rally spawns PGM commodity play
A sustained rally in platinum and palladium prices has rejuvenated exploration for these rare metals and breathed some life into the sickly junior mining sector.Platinum rocketed past $500 recently wh…
Companies (November 29, 1999)
AMT International MiningAnglo AmericanAnglogoldAnooraq ResourcesBema GoldCancor MinesChannel ResourcesChief Consolidated MiningComaplex MineralsConquistador MinesCorner Bay MineralsCumberland Resource…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR — Pegmatite story ‘misleading’
The story “Junior eyes rare-metal pegmatite” (T.N.M., May 31-June 6/99) by John Cumming contains a number of inaccurate and misleading statements calculated to cause confusion among your readers.Contr…
Junior eyes rare-metal pegmatite
Fred Breaks is at it again. The Ontario Geological Survey geologist who discovered Avalon Ventures’ (AVL-V) Big Whopper petalite deposit north of Kenora has uncovered another significant rare-metal pe…
Companies (May 31, 1999)
Aconic MiningAlto MineralsArmada GoldAshanti GoldfieldsAvalon VenturesBand-Ore ResourcesBarrick GoldBattle Mountain GoldBillitonCamecoCampbell ResourcesColumbia Gold MinesComincoCrown ResourcesCSA Man…