Ontario Hydro sues Denison
Toronto-based Denison Mines (TSE) is being sued by Ontario Hydro. The dispute centres around a long-term uranium purchase and sale agreement signed by Denison and the huge provincial utility in 1977. …
1992
LAC back in the black
A cleaner balance sheet, a strong hedging program and increased gold production pushed LAC Minerals (TSE) well into the black in 1991. For the year ended Dec. 31, 1991, LAC recorded earnings of US$15 …
Melinga tests Honduran project
A first-phase induced polarization survey was recently completed by Melinga Resources (VSE) on the Macuelizo concession in northwest Honduras. The company reports that several prospective gold-copper …
Pegasus eyes new opportunities
Spokane-based Pegasus Gold (NYSE) kicked off the new year by joint-venturing a Nevada gold property held by Athena Gold (VSE), and in a separate development, announced plans to make an additional equi…
Agnico’s Joutel mines to close
Unless exploration yields a big discovery around Agnico-Eagle Mines’ (TSE) Joutel Division north of Val d’Or, Que., the aging Eagle and Telbel gold mines are likely to close by April, says President P…
Industry favors fly-in operations
We are surprised that David Johnston takes issue in his letter to the editor (T.N.M., Oct. 14/91) with our research findings cited by Olav Svela (T.N.M., Sept. 2/91) with respect to the growth of comm…
Alberta Stock Exchange — Kingswood active
Active Kingswood Explorations 1985 has started up a drilling program on its 60-claim gold property at Eastmain, Que., where surface work indicated a number of anomalies. The company, whose stock slipp…
Taking lessons from Mount Milligan
Placer Dome’s $266-million writedown of its Mount Milligan project in British Columbia was unequivocal acknowledgment that it had made a mistake. The company simply paid too much for a project that di…
Landowners attack, close mine
In an attack reminiscent of the still unresolved 3-year-old Bougainville copper mine conflict, disgruntled Papua New Guinea (PNG) landowners have brought the operations of another mine site in the Sou…
Curragh facing gap’ in Faro output
Curragh Resources (TSE) is facing the possibility of having to lay off at least some of the 400 miners employed at its Faro zinc-lead mine in the Yukon, unless it can come up with financing for develo…
Vancouver Stock Exchange — Placer news has ripple effect
Although the perception of local market direction appeared decidedly positive during the recent Cordilleran Roundup in Vancouver, the resource index managed to slip below the 500 level, off by 12.6 po…
Montreal Exchange — Aurizon benefiting
Volumes remained buoyant but the market portfolio and mining and minerals index went in opposite directions during the week ended Feb. 4, the former closing up by 7.8 points and the latter slipping by…