1988

The following criteria define a junior mining company: * Neither a producing company nor the recipient of significant income from production or from some other business venture. * Exploration funding …

It’s been a while coming, but it finally appears that this will be the year St Andrew Goldfields will put its Stock Twp. property into production. Reconnaissance surface drilling first identified the …

Measured reserves of fewer than 130,000 tons might seem a touch on the light side for anyone to start talking about a mine. But Skyline Resources is more than just talking about that reserve figure fo…

Small junior mining companies have often been credited with outperforming senior companies in mineral exploration. It is widely believed that the juniors have found more mineral deposits than the seni…

Ontario’s first zinc mine since the Kidd Creek operation came into production in the 1960s should be in full production by the end of the first quarter. Minnova decided late in 1986, shortly after the…

That Canamax Resources is bringing yet another mine into production hardly rates as news anymore. True news would be that this aggressive producer/explorer isn’t cutting the ceremonial ribbon on anoth…

A few years ago, St. Joe Gold Corp. was spun off as a publicly traded company to oversee St. Joe Minerals’ (the parent firm’s) gold holdings in the Western Hemisphere. Overnight, St. Joe became a gold…

Although the company poured its first gold bar in June, 1986, Gordex Minerals of Saint John, N.B., had to find a technological fix to bring its small Cape Spencer gold mine officially into commercial …

Comdale Technologies of Toronto has developed an expert system to control the flotation circuit at Cominco’s Polaris mine, in the Northwest Territories. Genex, an expert system tool kit, was used to d…

The Canamax game plan goes as follows: like most other junior explorers, the company first focuses on promising exploration projects. It then sets an “economic hurdle,” such as establishing that a pro…

In the pantheon of producing mines controlled or owned outright by American Barrick Resources, the Holt-McDermott property should hold a place of distinction. Once this property comes on-stream, it wi…

The unusually high grade character of the gold ore disclosed on the Ryan Gold Mines property on the Yellowknife River in the Northwest Territories is indicated by the deal which was made between the o…