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Augdome financing placer pilot test

Assay results have just come in from a placer gold property on the lower reaches of McConnell Creek in B.C. Property owner Augdome Corp. has decided to issue 160,000 preference shares (at $1 each) to …


Camreco plans drilling program

With arrangements made with MVP for $1.5 million flow-through funding, Camreco Inc. plans a major drilling program on its northwestern Ontario properties including its recently acquired Goldlund Mines…



Kidd to drill Chance ground

Further exploratory drilling is to be carried out by Kidd Creek Mines on ground it holds under option from Chance Mining and Exploration in the Timmins area. This new work will include additional foll…


Oretruck on fire at Murdochville

Two weeks after a fire claimed the life of a miner at the Noranda Minerals Inc. copper mine at Murdochville, Que., on the Gaspe Peninsula, a 13-ton oretruck caught fire underground. No injuries were r…


Technology spurs graphite demand

The total market for graphite in North America is small, between 50,000 and 80,000 tons a year (compared with 610,000 tons world- wide). But new technology is spurring demand at growth rates of 1%- 3%…


Newfields arranges private placement

Newfields Minerals of Vancouver has arranged a private placement with S.I.C. Properties whereby Newfields will issue 2.5 million common shares to S.I.C. at $3 per share. A finder’s fee of $405,000 is …


Falconbridge in the red, cheered by gold, silver

Earnings news on the first quarter this year announced at the annual meeting was considerably less than a barnburner for Falconbridge Ltd., but the company is looking for better things for the rest of…


More Dome drilling on Melrose bet

A drilling program, overburden and diamond, is scheduled to be started after breakup on Melrose Resources’ Blackstock Twp., Ont. property by Dome Exploration. Dome says it intends to spend a further $…


Unigold drilling in Timmins area

An approximate 3,000 ft drilling program has been completed on serveral ip anomalies on the Penhorwood properties, west of Timmons, Ont., by Unigold Resources,. President J. Claude Bonhomme says that …


Drilling identifies gold-bearing pods

Five gold-bearing pods have been partly delimited by J.A.G. Mines at its Malartic property in northwestern Quebec, following drilling at 19 sites. The pods are contained in a structure 4,000 ft long a…


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