1994

Discovery of a potential sizable gold occurrence in the Waugh Lake area of the extreme northeastern corner of Alberta has the area’s lease-holding syndicate looking for partners. The syndicate is cour…

Publicly traded junior mining companies in Nova Scotia — once thriving employers and significant contributors to the provincial economy during the late 1980s — are near extinction. The result has be…

Vancouver-listed Seawest Resources can earn a half participating interest in the Moody Twp. gold prospect of Glen Auden Resources (CDN). The 89-claim property is near Timmins, Ont. To earn the interes…

The annual meeting of Venezuelan Goldfields (TSE) was a low-key affair, with little news conveyed about the junior’s properties in Venezuela’s Kilometre 88 district. So far, 20 holes have been drilled…

Montreal-listed partners Societe Miniere Ecudor and Ressources Dianor report that exploration will begin soon on their Adanac gold property near Rouyn-Noranda, Que. Geophysical surveys by 30%-owner Di…

New gold and silver production records were set by Echo Bay Mines (TSE) in 1993 and the Denver-based company is expecting similar output this year. Gold output increased to 873,890 oz. last year, up 1…

Perched on the southern shore of Opapimiskan Lake in the remote bush of northwestern Ontario is a project that Placer Dome (TSE) believes will be Canada’s next bullion producer. Musselwhite, a joint v…

Ever since the Cassiar asbestos mine closed more than two years ago, this British Columbian town has been a shadow of its former self — until recently, that is when Cusac Industries (TSE) began breat…

Toronto-based TVX Gold (TSE) is optimistic about the coming year now that Inco (TSE), has sold the public its 61.8% stake in the company. The sale prompted TVX Chairman Eike Batista to assemble a new …

Two recent developments in Africa — the election of Nelson Mandela as the new leader of South Africa and the decision by the government of Ghana to sell a considerable chunk of the Ashanti mine — ar…

Toronto-based Tri Origin Exploration (TSE) has discovered a new zone at its Lewis Ponds polymetallic project in New South Wales, Australia. The mineralized structure exists below a major fault structu…

A drilling program is expected to get under way in mid-June on the Cone Hill property southwest of Williams Lake, B.C. Valerie Gold Resources (VSE) plans an initial 10,000 ft. of drilling, including e…