1996



PEOPLE — LYSANDER GOLD

John Auston elected chairman; Stephen Sopher elected president; Andrew Milligan, Donald Mustard, Roberto Negrao de Lima, Charles Russell, Lou Duarte and William Meyer elected directors.


ACC to host hedging seminar

The American Copper Council (ACC) will hold an intermediate-level hedging seminar on Sept. 10 at Manhattan’s Warwick Hotel in New York, N.Y.Featuring an address by John Gross, vice-president of strate…


ODDS’N’SODS — Yellow-brick sidewalk

The discovery of the fabulous “golden sidewalk” is said to be the most spectacular find of visible, on-surface gold made in the history of Canadian gold mining.Situated at Carr Lake, in northeastern O…


COMMENTARY — Teaching the educators

By 1992, I had spent 25 years as a teacher, yet my knowledge of the mining industry was, to say the least, inadequate.Words such as “exploration,” “extraction,” “processing” and “reclamation” were one…


EDITORIAL PAGE — The best of a bad situation

It is disheartening that the New World gold-copper project has been permanently sidelined by an agreement that will see the mine’s owner, Crown Butte Resources, swap the Montana project for federal la…


Canada proposes tax changes for ammonite producers

The federal government of Canada has announced proposed changes to the income-tax treatment of producers of ammonite gemstones.The changes, which were proposed by Natural Resources Minister Anne McCle…


Drilling on Portuguese property begins

The Grandola joint venture has initiated drilling on the first of four planned holes in a program aimed at testing the central axis of the 3,000-metre-long Porto de Mel gravity anomaly on the Grandola…


CIM luncheon will shed light on Cameco

The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum (CIM) resumes its speakers’ luncheons on Sept. 19, when the guest of honor will be Bernard Michel, chairman, president and chief executive offi…




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