1989

A hot spot for gold discoveries over the past few years, British Columbia’s Stewart- Sulphurets region is moving into a production phase following start-up of Westmin Mines’ (TSE) Premier Gold propert…

At a time when leveraged buy- outs, poison pills and junk financings are becoming almost daily occurrences, it is more important than ever for shareholders of public and private companies to know thei…

It’s hard to say exactly when it Istarted, but some time last year Imajor assaying labs across the country began receiving increased amounts of more soil, grab, trench, channel and bulk samples from b…

I was pleased to see the article entitled “Digital Prospecting” in the June issue, for despite its value, the technology may not yet be well known within the geological community. Unfortunately, altho…

Dr Harry Warren, a pioneer biogeochemist and honorary professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of British Columbia, has discovered that bee pollen laced with naturally-occu…

Silver, traditionally the poor Sman’s gold, hasn’t made any investors– well-heeled or impoverished — any money over the past couple of years at least. And, according to forecasts by Shearson Lehman …

Re: “The Thiourea Option” and the letter written by D. W. Krueger. I assume that I am the basis for the statement that thiourea is not carcinogenic in man since I did discuss this with the writer of t…

After eight years of nearly continuous worldwide expansion of nickel demand, many analysts seem to assume that the cyclic nature of the nickel industry is a phenomenon of the past. If we examine the g…

The battle lines are being drawn Tfor the world tunnel-boring- Tmachine (TBM) market. And in North America, the Canadian hardrock mining industry is a significant part of that market. Using surface di…

When Rio Algom started the mine, it had to train the vast majority of its operators. “We had only two shovel operators, one driller and one blaster,” mine superintendent Gary Smith recalls. Since this…

Fluctuations in supply, demand and inventories have resultedin a period of som e uncertainty for copper and other metals. By Raymond Goldie and Rob Maiman Last year, while visiting New Zealand, a min…

Zinc market conditions are extremely tight. The sharp slowdown in the auto sector combined with less buoyant consumer spending overall will act to decrease zinc demand sharply * The new mines coming o…