Ontario Snapshot: Six juniors advancing gold, copper and lithium projects
Ontario’s long and prosperous mining history has allowed more than a few juniors to hit the filing cabinets to dust off old mining projects and try to revive them. Here’s…
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TSX Venture follows commodities lower, Sept. 5-8
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index shed 6.46 points to a 771.99-point close on declining commodity prices. Spot gold prices fell US$21.36 to US$1,345.59 per oz., and Comex copper prices lost…
Hurricane Irma cools US markets, Sept. 5-8
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.9% to 21,797.8 points and the S&P 500 Index dropped 0.6% to 2,461.43 points, as investors braced for Hurricane Irma’s potential impact on U.S….
WIM Toronto walkers approach $1M in donations
The Women in Mining Toronto walking team was first assembled in 2007 to raise money for the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation by participating in the annual Rexall OneWalk to Conquer…
Gold demand cools in Q2
The following is an edited summary of the World Gold Council’s Gold Demand Trends report for this year’s second quarter. For the full report, please visit www.gold.org. Global gold demand in the second…
Snapshot: Promising gold projects from NWT to Newfoundland
With gold prices on the upswing and Canada’s stable politics looking ever more appealing, Canada’s junior gold explorers are in the midst of a particularly active year. Here is a…
Video: Fireside chat with Lukas Lundin
Lukas Lundin, chairman of the Lundin Group of Companies, was one of the distinguished speakers at The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium in London in early May. In a fireside…
Video: Lifetime Achievement Award and fireside chat with Robert Friedland
Robert Friedland receives The Northern Miner‘s Lifetime Achievement Award and discusses the state of the mining industry and commodities markets at the Canadian Mining Symposium in London, U.K., in May…
Video: Panel discussion of TNM/PwC report — ‘Strategies for excess cash’
The mining sector is beginning a recovery, but it is still fragile and not uniform across all commodities. Now that mining companies are making money again, how can they avoid…
Video: Garofalo & Dushnisky — Gold mining’s future and Canada’s role in it
At the Canadian Mining Symposium hosted by The Northern Miner at Canada House in London in May 2017, session moderator Greg Huffman, managing director and global head of mining sales…
Obituary: Jean Descarreaux, a Quebec mining icon
The Quebec mineral exploration community marks the passing of Jean Descarreaux, who has been a monumental inspiration and mentor for generations of geologists and mineral exploration entrepreneurs in Quebec. He…
Facts ‘n’ Figures: Gold demand down 18% in Q1
The following release from the World Gold Council details global gold demand in the first quarter of 2017. The full Gold Demand Trends report is available for free at www.gold.org….