PEOPLE –FORMATION CAPITAL
Richard Tschauder appointed president of its wholly owned Mexican subsidiary.
1996
PEOPLE –BROADWATER DEVELOPMENTS
Brian Baker appointed director.
PEOPLE –ASIA MINERALS
Michael Cunningham appointed vice-president of exploration; Ken Mau appointed chief financial officer.
PEOPLE –ALTO INDUSTRIES
Donald Bubar appointed director.
EDITORIAL PAGE — The winds of change
In August of 1946, South African mine workers demanded and won a minimum wage of 10 shillings per day, which, to the best of our reckoning, works out to about $2. Then, in August of 1987, unionized mi…
PEOPLE — ALPINE EXPLORATION (September 23, 1996)
Donald Nicholson appointed director.
ONRSA releases air-monitoring reference manual
The Ontario Natural Resources Safety Association (ONRSA) has released a manual describing the equipment required to conduct air volume surveys.The booklet, entitled Measuring Airflow, is the first rel…
Cyprus Amax coal mine sets record
Twentymile Coal, a subsidiary of Cyprus Amax Minerals, has set a world record for monthly coal production.The underground operation in western Colorado produced 893,108 tons of coal last month, breaki…
LME WAREHOUSE LEVELS (September 23, 1996)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at Sept.16/96 (change from previous week in brackets):Copper268,350(-2,800)Tin10,125(-40)Lead114,450(+33,475)Zinc550,250(-6,60…
MOST ACTIVE ISSUES (September 23, 1996)
ExchgVol(000s)ClosePrior Res LtdA84530.24Bema GoldT…
GOLD FUNDS (September 23, 1996)
Gold Funds as of September 12, 1996BGRCentralNet Value$24.54$6.47Price$18.70…
THE DIAMOND PAGE — Diavik partners report promising values
Partners Kennecott Canada and Aber Resources (ABZ-T) are encouraged by the latest drill results from their Diavik diamond project near Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories.A single, large-diameter…