1994

A previously announced arrangement involving Starmin Mining (TSE) and privately owned Ivanhoe Goldfields has closed. The agreement took effect Aug. 11; Starmin shares are trading on a 3-for-1 consolid…

Alberta-listed New Island Minerals has received encouraging gold assays from sampling on its Glover Island property in central Newfoundland. The samples were collected from an outcrop area measuring 2…

The fourth annual CIM Geological Society Field Conference will take place Sept. 19-21 in Sudbury, Ont. Titled “Exploration and mining geology of world class deposits: strategies for success,” the conf…

The Geophysical Exploration Technology of the University of Leeds has completed a year-long collaboration study with Mongolian Geological and Geophysical Exploration to compile aeromagnetic data for M…

A contract for engineering and construction management of the concentrator, tailings storage and associated infrastructure at the Troilus gold project north of Chibougamau, Que., has been awarded to S…

A New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) seat sold recently for a record US$555,000. The futures exchange trades oil and gas and platinum and palladium contracts. Meanwhile, the Commodity Futures Tradin…

Partners SouthernEra Resources (TSE), Winspear Resources (VSE) and Adex Mining (TSE) plan to carry out a 2-3 tonne mini-bulk-sampling program on their newly discovered Nicholas Bay diamondiferous kimb…

Disappointing exploration results out of the Northwest Territories helped spur a continued slide in western markets. The Vancouver Stock Exchange resource index took it on the chin, plunging 121.73 po…

Despite higher-than-normal stainless mill demand, metal prices remain in their seasonal doldrums with only the rumor mills really active. There is massive speculation about 1994 Russian production lev…

Noranda Minerals, a U.S. subsidiary of Noranda (TSE), reports that an option held by Montanore Reserves to reacquire a 45% interest in the Montanore silver-copper project expired July 29. As a result,…

Construction can now begin on the Kodiak heap-leach gold project at Golden Bear mine in northwestern British Columbia. North American Metals (VSE) received the required mine development certificate fr…

Leader Mining Corporation (LMC:ASE) has changed its name to Leader Mining International Inc. (LMN:ASE) on a 1-new-sh-for-5-old-shs basis.