Stornoway opens Quebec’s first diamond mine
JAMES BAY REGION, QUE. — On a blustery grey day in mid-October, as Stornoway Diamond (TSX: SWY) welcomes 200 visitors to the official opening of its Renard diamond mine in…
Aboriginal Matters
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 36: Koneline filmmaker Nettie Wild – full interview
This week we have staff writer Lesley Stokes’ full 25-minute conversation with filmmaker Nettie Wild about her award-winning “cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia,” KONELĪNE: our land beautiful. The Northern…
Miner Moments #5: Filmmaker Nettie Wild discusses KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful
Staff writer Lesley Stokes sits down with filmmaker Nettie Wild for a chat about her award-winning “cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia,” KONELĪNE: our land beautiful. The Northern Miner is…
Win free tickets to the Vancouver showing of KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful
The Northern Miner is proud to be Co-Presenter of the Vancouver commercial premiere of the feature-length documentary, KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful, which won the “Best Canadian Feature Documentary” award at…
Noront lobbies for road access to Eagle’s Nest
VANCOUVER — Noront Resources (TSXV: NOT) is encouraged that the Ring of Fire camp in northern Ontario, where the junior has its remote Eagle’s Nest nickel-copper and platinum group metal…
Feds to review environmental permitting across Canada
Canada’s federal government has officially launched a major review of environmental permitting for resource projects, stating it wants to “restore confidence” in the country’s environmental and regulatory processes. The new…
Yukon Premier supports mines
DAWSON CITY, YUKON — Lining the quartz-gravel roads of Yukon’s Dawson City, the commercial hub of the legendary Klondike placer goldfields, are a number of derelict buildings that once gave…
Odds ‘n’ Sods: Strange discovery under a freakish quartzite mound in Arizona
Let’s start this story close to its end with an April 27, 1967, front-page headline from Tucson’s Arizona Daily Star: “Papagos lease site for copper mine,” followed by a sub-headline:…
AME BC: First Nations access fees for explorers ‘not acceptable’
VANCOUVER — A policy update put out by the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) suggests there’s something amiss in the B.C. junior exploration sector regarding its working…
Letter to the editor: People in our biz should see Koneline film
I saw KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful this afternoon at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto with a few geo and non-geo friends. (See film review. The Northern Miner is co-presenter of the…
Editorial: Northern Superior loses case in Ontario
A long-simmering legal case revolving around the duty to consult in Ontario’s Mining Act has been resolved, with plaintiff Northern Superior Resources having its action against the province of Ontario…
Win free tickets to the Toronto premiere of KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful.
The Northern Miner is proud to be Co-Presenter of the Toronto premiere of the feature-length documentary, KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful, which won the “Best Canadian Feature Documentary” award at the…