1993

Women working in geology today may think they are pioneering in a predominantly male field. But the real pioneer was from an earlier generation. Canada’s first female geologist was Alice Evelyn Wilson…

A junior company is being granted exploration and mine development rights covering the whole of Armenia, an area of almost 30,000 sq. km. If the assignment agreement is approved by regulators, Rome Re…

The price of gold rocketed to a high of US$385 per oz. on May 19 from a low in March of about $326. At presstime, the price had sagged, presumably as a result of profit-taking, to $373. Peter Allen, p…

It is disappointing to see that, for some, cost of analysis is still the indicator of the accuracy of that analysis; that is, the more it costs, the better the result must be. I refer to the front-pag…

Recent financing arrangements have set the stage for Azco Mining (TSE) to bring the Sanchez operation into production in southeast Arizona. The copper project is one of three held by the company in th…

A 3,700-metre winter drill program in the Foster Lake area of northern Saskatchewan has yielded significant zinc and copper values for Noranda Exploration, a division of Noranda (TSE). At Hewetson Lak…

Copper consumption in the Western world will continue to grow around 2% per year during the decade. We (Phelps Dodge) see the strongest growth coming from the Far East as infrastructure needs continue…

We knew (or rather, we hoped) something was afoot when share prices of Canada’s major and minor gold producers started moving up sharply in January. It is a generally accepted investing principle that…

Clayton Dodd, Roger Davey, Rodney Duncan, Irvin Ridd and Maynard Brown appointed directors.

The Alberta Stock Exchange (ASE) is taking several junior companies to task for reporting assay results performed either by a method other than the fire assay technique or by a laboratory not acceptab…

Robert Bryce of Aur Resources (TSE) will discuss the Louvicourt project in northwestern Quebec at a May 28 luncheon of the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleu…

Geologist and British Columbia-based consultant James Bristow died recently at Kamloops, B.C. He was 62. After graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1957 with a degree in geology and p…