1992

A. Tonken appointed president and chief executive officer.

The 571 unionized employees at Canadian Electrolytic Zinc (CE Zinc) have voted 89% in favor of a new 3-year collective agreement. Under the terms of the new contract, effective Nov. 1, the average wag…

Drilling on Glimmer Resources’ (VSE) Beatty-Hislop property in northeastern Ontario has intersected a new zone of alteration. The new zone is about 300 metres north of the other known mineralized zone…

The recent purchase of an option on a further 7.5% interest in Taysan Copper, a Philippine company, gives Chase Resources (VSE) control over 67.4% of the Taysan project. On assignment of the 7.5% inte…

The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum’s economics committee in Toronto heard an enlightening talk by Robert Adams, who recently returned from the Commonwealth of Independent State…

Semi-monthly reports as of Nov. 15, showed 36,786,868 shares of 593 issues compared with 38,169,498 shares of 570 issues on Oct. 31. Larger individual positions included: Amer. Barrick 273,674, up 29,…

Exploration activity has slowed this year in the isolated, mineral-rich area of MacMillan Pass, up the North Canol Road near the Yukon-Northwest Territories border. “It’s getting marginal whether they…

With engineering planning now under way for the development of the Sanchez copper project, owner Azco Mining (TSE) has retained First Boston as its lead financial adviser. Pending the receipt of final…

Canadian and Belgian central bank gold selloffs, Japanese investors liquidating assets and the post-electoral doldrums in the U.S. are all cited as reasons for continued soft gold prices. However, gol…

Mineral exploration spending in British Columbia has sagged to $90 million in 1991 from $190 million in 1990, and according to Jack Patterson, managing director of the British Columbia & Yukon Chamber…

The depressed state of the Canadian mining industry is sending companies abroad with different strategies in the search for new business opportunities. Kilborn Engineering and Construction Ltd., for e…

Placer Dome’s (TSE) Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea chalked up another first with the recent successful commissioning of a 670-ft. underground vertical ore conveyor. The conveyor, the first of its ki…