Mining

Vancouver’s Cabo Mining Enterprises is acquiring Thor Drilling Ltd. of Kenora. The exploration company signed a letter of intent Sept. 14. Cabo has acquired four companies in the past three months.

Kodiak Exploration has intersected high-grade gold mineralization on its Knucklethumb Property in northwestern Ontario.

By KELLY LOUISEIZE Instead of waiting for buyers to come to them, Cast Resource Equipment is aggressively seeking partnerships with foreign contacts and in its efforts to do so is establishing a sales office in Nevada.

BY JOSEPH QUESNEL Gold-mining giant Placer Dome has completed a pilot project to convert a stope into a mining schoolhouse at its Campbell Mine site and the company is now ready to expand the program.

By IAN ROSS White-hot gold prices have put the shine back on the Red Lake mining camp.

By IAN ROSS Mining stocks and metal prices are surging, but nickel is in a class by itself.

Sudbury Contact Mines Ltd. began an aggressive drilling program in March to further explore diamond indicator minerals on its Timiskaming property in northeastern Ontario.

By IAN ROSS Northern Ontario Business A Canadian mining association is seeking to increase its presence in Northern Ontario.

Pacific North West Capital Corp. and their Sudbury PGM partners Anglo Platinum have announced a $3-million drilling program for their River Valley project.

Laurentian University is receiving $535,462 in FedNor funding to buy scientific equipment for the creation of its chemical engineering lab and for the Canada Research Chair in Robotics and Mining Automation (CRC).