Halfmile property completes claim puzzle
When Noranda (TSE) and Trelleborg teamed up last year to buy base metal miner Falconbridge Ltd., the two multinationals got more than nickel mines and the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario. They als…
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New backer raises hopes for revival of Caribou zinc mine
A series of meetings involving officials from East West Caribou Mining and its new financial backers are expected to lead to a resumption of mining operations at the Caribou lead zinc mine in New Brun…
Sphinx plans to heap leach surface ore at Duvay bet
Montreal-based Societe Miniere Sphinx (ME) is joining a growing list of Canadian companies who are attempting to mine gold profitably using heap leaching methods. While the inexpensive mining method h…
Profile A NOSE FOR MINES
Before radar, the skippers of west-coast seiners were adept at finding safe harbor in impenetrable fog. Bern Brynelsen remembers one such seaman, for whom he packed salmon. Time and again he was deepl…
Montana boy makes good
From a speech by Frank Duval, President of Montana Reserves Co., at the Montana Mining Association’s centennial convention. Montana mining hit it big in the national press this year. Any of you get …
LETTERS Caribou
The article in the March, 1989, issue on the Caribou mine of New Brunswick, gives a wrong impression on the discovery of the Caribou deposit. It says: “Cavalero, an American geologist from Maine, was…
Sikaman exploring Nevada claims
Options to retain a 100% interest in 125 claims in the Gilbert mining district of Nevada have been acquired by Sikaman Gold Resources (TSE). The claims are situated 20 miles north of Tonopah and were …
East West ships con from Caribou
A 6,734-tonne shipment of base metals concentrates, containing about $5.5 million worth of zinc, lead, gold and silver, is on its way to England from the Caribou mine in northern New Brunswick. Owned …
Mineral output up in New Brunswick
New Brunswick experienced a marked increase in the value of minerals produced in 1988 over 1987 values. Natural Resources and Energy Minister Morris Green has released preliminary figures which show t…
NovaGold retires debt
After reaching an agreement with creditors to retire $1.43 million in outstanding debt, NovaGold Resources (TSE) is now focusing its efforts on achieving gold production at the Murray Brook project, 8…
THE JUST_IN_TIME MINE
April 29, 1985, has special significance for geologist Richard Cavalero That’s the day he received notice that Anaconda Minerals was going to sell off its assets Included in the sale was a deposit he…
HIGH GRADE AND HIGH HOPES
Keen observers of drill core at the annual meeting of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada in Toronto last March may have noticed a box of unusual core from the Bathurst camp Taken from …