Articles by Northern Miner Staff


A rendering of Tesla Motors' planned Gigafactory - which will produce lithium-ion batteries - currently under construction in Storey County, Nevada. Credit: Tesla Motors

Bacanora raises US$13.4M for Mexican lithium project

Just a few months after Bacanora Minerals (TSXV: BCN) and Rare Earth Minerals (LSE: REM) signed a deal with Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) to supply the carmaker with lithium hydroxide from their Sonora lithium project in Mexico, the companies…




The surface at the skarn porphyry discovery area at Dynacor Gold Mines' Tumipampa gold-copper project in Peru, 500 km southeast of Lima. Credit: Dynacor Gold Mines

Dynacor finds porphyry at Tumipampa in Peru

Dynacor Gold Mines (TSX: DNG; US-OTC: DNGDF) has discovered a 1.7 km long copper porphyry at its Tumipampa project in the Peruvian Andes that it says could be one of the feeder systems for the gold and copper it has found on the property, 500…



The Ana Paula gold property in Guerrero, Mexico. Credit: Timmins Gold

Timmins Gold to close San Francisco mine next year

Timmins Gold (TSX: TMM; NYSE-MKT: TGD) is now planning to suspend mining in mid-2016 at its only operating asset — the San Francisco heap-leach gold mine in Mexico’s Sonora state — moving up the date from 2022 in response to…






Aluminum cuts deepest for facilities in US

Alcoa (NYSE: AA) is idling three of its four U.S. aluminum smelters, taking out annual capacity of 500,000 tonnes of aluminum and 1.2 million tonnes of alumina to curb costs, amid low prices.


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