1990

Nickel producer Inco (TSE) will likely face a 10% increase in production costs next year as grades at the company’s Canadian mines bottom out, Chairman Donald Phillips told a group of analysts at a re…

Options Open Series Volume Last Interest Feb. 370 C 210 22.50 305 Feb. 380 C 237 17.50 761 Feb. 400 C 163 7.70 1,119 Feb. 410 C 252 5.50 1,844 Feb. 420 C 321 4.00 1,916 Feb. 430 C 140 3.00 569 Feb. 46…

British Columbia will hold its third annual mining week during the last week of February in Vancouver’s Pan-Pacific Hotel. Events include a careers fair, an award luncheon, a mine safety banquet and t…

With limited production to its name and a sporadic history over 150 years, Canadian graphite is at last finding its feet. All the new production capacity is based in the Grenville geological province …

An agreement has been signed between Durvada Resources (ASE) and Crimson Star (VSE) to develop Durvada’s gold heap leach property in southwestern Nevada. Crimson Star can earn a 50% interest in the Ye…

A recent Canadian government report says at least six countries in South and Central America are making serious efforts to attract additional mineral exploration. For example, the report says, Chile h…

Jordex Resources (VSE) has finalized an agreement with Compania Minera Tiwanacu of Bolivia to earn a 50% interest in the latter company’s base and precious metal properties in South America. The compa…

Joint venture partners Dragoon Resources (VSE) and Greenstone Resources (TSE) have intersected some encouraging gold values on their property 25 miles south of Cranbrook, B.C. The best intersections f…

A 3,000-ft. drilling program is under way on the Bourlamaque Twp., Que., base metal property of Noranda (TSE) and Kingswood Explorations (ASE). The latter company is earning a 50% interest in the 18-c…

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TEXT: Nations would ban Antarctic mining The proposed creation of a world park in Antarctica received a boost recently when the U.S. agreed to ban U.S. mining in the southern continent and Britain in…

Minnova (TSE) plans to begin a 10-hole drill program next January on the company’s 9,500-acre claim group in the Rouyn-Noranda camp of northern Quebec. Golden Briar Mines (ME) retains a 10% cash flow …