Cominco Resources completes offering
Cominco Resources International Ltd., which recently organized to act as Cominco Ltd.’s exploration and mine development arm outside Canada, Alaska and Australia, has completed the sale of 41.4% of it…
1987
Industrial minerals attract mining companies
While gold has captured the public’s imagination of late, the search for l industrial minerals has proved attractive to a number of mining companies. Properties in Canada and the United States are act…
Belmoral, Vedron discuss merger
The boards of directors of Belmoral Mines and Vedron Ltd. are exploring the possibilities of a merger of the two gold mining companies. Belmoral currently has a 39% interest in Vedron and, under an ex…
Metal Prices FUTURES PRICES (June 15, 1987)
N.Y. Commodity Exchange Week’s High Low Close Change COPPER (in US cents per lb.) June 70.15 69.55 70.10 + 0.70 July 70.15 69.25 70.10 + 0.80…
Brunswick profit expected to continue
Brunswick Mining and Smelting Corp. reports first quarter earnings of $355,000, compared with a loss of $3,525,000 in the first quarter of 1986. Value of mineral production in the latest period was $6…
Atlantic Report Maritimes exploration arm
Vancouver-based Four Seasons Resources has established a Maritimes exploration arm, F.S.R. Maritimes Exploration. F.S.R. Maritimes is negotiating an option agreement with Four Seasons whereby it could…
News in Brief (June 15, 1987)
Ceasar Resources has changed its name to Audre Recognition Systems Inc. on a share-for-share basis.
METAL MARKETS Canadian firms Stelco, Dofasco place in top 30
World crude steel production in 1986 totalled 714 million tonnes, down from 720 million tonnes in 1985, the International Iron and Steel Institute reports. Crude steel production of the western world …
Flow-through is driving Quebec’s mining boom
Exploration expenditures in Quebec grew by 58% in 1986, soaring to an unprecedented $263.1 million. More than 87% of this investment was earmarked for the off-site exploration for which the spending r…
Breakwater offering
Breakwater Resources of Vancouver has given a Swiss bank the mandate to offer for sale in Europe 35 million Swiss francs (approximately $31 million) as the principal amount of convertible Eurobonds. T…
Thorco acquires an interest in S. African mine
Thorco Resources reports it has acquired 100% of the issued share capital and warrants of Centurion Exploration and Mining, a U.K.- -based mining company with a 60% controlling interest in a South Afr…
Gold production planned by Rouyn Mining in ’88
The Francoeur property of Rouyn Mining Resources could be in production as early as next March pending receipt of a positive feasibility study, President Jean-Guy Rivard told a group of investors in T…