1994

Toronto-listed Northfield Minerals can earn a half interest in a 1,000-acre property in western Utah. Known as the Clifton claims, the property contains a gold-silver vein system running up to 70 ft. …

An independent feasibility study commissioned by MK Gold estimates US$128 million will be required to develop a mine and mill at the Jerooy gold project in Kyrghyzstan. The company and Kyrghyzstanian …

A private company run by former executives of now-bankrupt Curragh expects to reach a deal with receiver Peat Marwick Thorne this month regarding the purchase of Curragh’s Faro lead-zinc mine in the c…

Derek Pannell appointed president.

Robert Whittall appointed vice-president of finance.

Dale Hendrick appointed president.

Joint-venture partners Western Copper Holdings (VSE) and Thermal Exploration (ASE) are reviewing plans to consolidate the ownership of their Carmacks copper project in the Yukon. Western had agreed to…

Drilling on the Meliadine gold property in the Northwest Territories has enabled 50-50 partners Comstate Resources (TSE) and Cumberland Resources (VSE) to define, more clearly, the extent of the depos…

While one drill focused on near-surface exploration on Eden Roc’s (TSE) Ivory Coast property, a second has been defining the Brahima deposit in preparation for mining startup this fall. The Brahima is…

Survey control in underground mines is essential to ensuring the efficiency of mining systems. I vividly recall my first venture into a mine, in the early years of the Second World War, at the Red Ros…

The Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology (CANMET) has opened a mining research laboratory in Sudbury, Ont. Situated on Kelly Lake Road, the new lab will carry out research in rockbursts, ba…

Semi-monthly reports as of May 15, 1994 showed 262,385,709 shares of 853 issues compared with 243,833,036 shares of 818 issues on Apr 30, 1994. Larger individual positions included: Aber 132,800, down…