University of Waterloo students win National Mining Competition
A quartet of engineering students from the University of Waterloo took the top prize at the third annual National Mining Competition in Saskatoon in early November.
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Pure Gold joins Red Lake’s ‘exploration renaissance’
RED LAKE, ONTARIO — For the management team at newly minted Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM; US-OTC: LRTNF), picking up the past-producing Madsen gold project marked a return to a gold camp that has played a formative role in their…
US stocks march up, Nov. 10-14
U.S. equities are up for the fourth straight week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 60.81 points to 17,634.74, while the S&P 500 Index rose 7.9 points to a record high of 2,039.82. The Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 56.01 points to…
Thompson Creek piles up cash in Q3
Thompson Creek Metals (TSX: TCM; NYSE: TC) is improving its operations and balance sheet, despite ending the third quarter in the red.
Two suitors court Carlisle
Just two days after the ink dried on a binding joint-venture agreement between Canadian gold miner AuRico Gold (TSX: AUQ; NYSE: AUQ; CGJ) and Carlisle Goldfields (TSX: CGJ; US-OTC: CGJCF) on the junior’s Lynn Lake project in Manitoba,…
True Gold targets first gold pour in late 2015
Vancouver-based gold junior True Gold Mining (TSXV: TGM) likes to get things done quickly.
AuRico Gold invests in Carlisle and Manitoba
For the last six months, AuRico Gold (TSX: AUQ; NYSE: AUQ) has been sizing up Carlisle Goldfields (TSX: CGJ) and its Lynn Lake gold project in Manitoba.
TSX continues winning streak, Nov. 3-7
The S&P/TSX Composite Index gained for the fourth straight week, up 77.51 points to close at 14,690.83. Gold and diversified miners both added 10 points, with the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index ending at 144.86 and the S&P/TSX Capped…
Primero misses Q3 expectations on impairment charge
Primero Mining’s (TSX: P; NYSE: PPP) quarterly earnings took a hit after it wrote down the goodwill value of the acquisition of Brigus Gold.
New Gold sets stage for Rainy River mine with Bayfield deal
VANCOUVER — New Gold (TSX: NGD; NYSE-MKT: NGD) executive chairman Randall Oliphant recently reiterated the fact that its Rainy River gold asset — located 65 km northwest of Fort Frances, Ont. — is a “priority development…
Editorial: After three long years, uranium has its day
An encouraging feature of today’s mineral industry is that it’s not bad news across the board, as a few subsectors — such as diamonds and nickel — have seen strong price increases and renewed investor interest this year.
Uranium stocks jump on Japanese nuclear restart news
Uranium prices and uranium stocks spiked in early November after politicians in Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture, including governor Yuichiro Ito, approved two nuclear reactor restarts in the country.