Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Dominion Diamond's majority owned Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories. Credit: Dominion Diamond/Brosha Photography

Dominion Diamond’s sparkling start in fiscal 2015

Toronto-based Dominion Diamond (TSX: DDC; NYSE: DDC) reported a strong operational start to the year, with higher-than-expected diamond production, sales and average prices for its first quarter of fiscal 2015.


The Shahuindo project in Cajabamba, Peru. Credit: Sulliden Gold.

Rio Alto to buy Sulliden Gold for $300M

Gold producer Rio Alto Mining (TSX: RIO; NYSE: RIOM) is acquiring developer Sulliden Gold (TSX: SUE, US-OTC: SDDDF) in a friendly $300-million, all-share deal to create a new mid-tier gold firm with low-cost operations in Peru. 



The camp at Arianne Phosphate's Lac  Paul phosphate project in Quebec. Credit: Arianne Phosphate

Arianne Phosphate grows Lac Paul

Arianne Phosphate (TSXV: DAN; US-OTC: DRRSF) says one of the world’s largest greenfield phosphate-rock projects has just gotten bigger, with near-surface inferred resources added from the Lac à Paul deposit’s Nicole zone in…


Novo Resources' Beatons Creek gold project in western Australia.  Credit: Novo Resources

Are the clouds parting for juniors?

Junior gold explorer Novo Resources (CNSX: NVO) checks all the boxes: it’s led by a well-known, connected and respected geologist; it has several prospective gold projects (one of which has an inferred resource) in the low-risk…


Tahoe Resources' Escobal silver mine, 70 km southeast of Guatemala City, which produced 4.1 million oz. silver in the first quarter. Credit: Tahoe Resources

Tahoe posts profitable Q1

After reaching commercial production on Jan. 14, the Escobal silver mine in Guatemala enjoyed a profitable first quarter, Tahoe Resources (TSX: THO; NYSE: TAHO) reports. 



Geologists examining maps at Continental Gold's Buritic project in Colombia. Credit: Continental Gold

Resource grows at Continental’s Buritic in Colombia

Continental Gold (TSX: CNL; US-OTC: CGOOF) has updated the resource estimate for the two major vein systems at its Buritica gold project in Colombia. Both systems are characterized by multiple, steeply dipping veins and broader, more…


TSX accelerates, May 19-23

Energy and banking stocks helped drive the S&P/TSX Composite Index higher, while Canada’s main stock index also got a lift from reassuring comments mid-week in the U.S. from the Federal Reserve that it remains committed to withdrawing…





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