Letter to the editor: Looking to share prospecting tips
What does it take to find a mine these days? Besides a lot of hard work, it takes a good technical team, enough cash in the kitty, a good property…
Articles by John Cumming
Nolan Watson, Alicia Woods win inaugural ‘Young Mining Professionals of the Year’ award
The Young Mining Professionals (YMP) — a non-profit group with chapters in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal — has awarded its inaugural, annual YMP Awards to Nolan Watson, president and CEO…
Uranium snapshot: six juniors of interest
With uranium oxide prices making a rebound over the last two months after hitting 12-year lows, uranium juniors are seeing renewed interest from investors. Here are six such companies worth…
Editorial: Resource regulators under Trump
Amidst the flurry of executive orders signed by U.S. President Donald J. Trump — starting four hours after his inauguration on Jan. 20 — were several that benefited the resource…
Imperial’s Mount Polley disaster followed years of permit delays
In 2004, Imperial Metals (TSX: III) notified B.C.’s Ministry of Environment that it would apply for a water-discharge permit so that it could restart its Mount Polley copper mine near…
TNM Video: Interview with Rockhaven CEO Turner at Klaza in Yukon
The Northern Miner‘s western editor Matthew Keevil speaks with Matthew Turner, president and CEO of Rockhaven Resources (TSXV: RK), at the company’s Klaza gold-silver-lead-zinc project in the Yukon’s Dawson Range…
Commentary: Canada’s energy companies and miners need to work together
It’s interesting to watch two sectors that should be joined at the hip in defense of their joint futures and wonder why they’re not — at least not in any…
Editorial: Kazatomprom’s cuts and uranium’s rebound
What a difference a month makes. After an absolutely desultory past few years for uranium oxide prices — which saw the spot price of yellowcake hit 11-year lows of only…
Commentary: Mine development and exploration in BC — where we stand in 2017
Thousands of members of the global mineral exploration and development industry are meeting in Vancouver from Jan. 23 to 26 at the Association for Mineral Exploration (AME) Roundup conference. Roundup…
Commentary: Powering the Essakane gold mine
Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) operates in extremely remote regions of the world, and with mining a highly power-intensive business, energy is not something we take for granted. Our Essakane gold mine…
TNM Data Miner: Top-five gold drill intercepts worldwide in December
Making use of the IntelligenceMine database of our sister company Infomine, The Northern Miner has compiled five projects recording the top gold intersections (grade multiplied by width) globally in December…
Editorial: Leadership crisis averted in DRC as Kabila to step down
We come out of the holiday period with good news out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: the deep and increasingly violent divisions over the transfer of presidential power…