Agnico Eagle’s Sean Boyd is TNM’s Mining Person of the Year
As we look back at the career so far of Sean Boyd — Agnico Eagle Mines’ vice-chairman and CEO, and The Northern Miner’s Mining Person of the Year for 2017…
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Newcrest takes 27% stake in Lundin Gold
Newcrest Mining (TSX: NCM), Australia’s largest-listed gold producer, is investing US$250 million for a 27.1% stake in Lundin Gold (TSX: LUG), a Canadian junior whose Fruta del Norte gold mine…
Canstar, Adventus and Altius to consolidate Buchans camp
Last year, Osisko Metals (TSXV: OM) acquired more than 500 sq. km in the historic Bathurst mining camp of New Brunswick to develop a multi-deposit zinc asset base that would…
Fission Uranium’s Triple R deposit continues to grow
Despite uranium prices at decade lows and three years of belt-tightening, Fission Uranium (TSX: FCU; US-OTC: FCUUF) has increased the indicated resource at its Triple R deposit by 8% and the overall…
Probe Metals hikes resource at Val-d’Or East project
Probe Metals (TSXV: PRB; US-OTC: PROBF) has proved up more gold ounces and has greater confidence in its Val-d’Or East project after upgrading inferred ounces into the indicated category. An…
Premier plans ‘big year’ in Nevada
Having lopped off more than half of its debt last year and with over $100 million in the bank, Premier Gold Mines (TSX: PG) is primed and ready for a…
Liberty Gold tables maiden resource for Goldstrike
Liberty Gold (TSX: LGD) has completed the first resource estimate on its flagship, wholly owned Goldstrike oxide gold project in southwestern Utah. The project lies near the Nevada border in…
New DRC mining code upsets miners
A new mining code in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that would raise royalties on metal production and eliminate a stability clause enshrined in the previous 2002 charter that…
Chakana surges on Venture debut
Shares of Chakana Copper (TSXV: PERU) gained 78% on their first day of trading and the release of assays from five shallow drill holes at the company’s Soledad copper-gold-silver project…
Editorial: US gov’t slaps sanctions on Israeli mogul Dan Gertler
On Dec. 20, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order under the year-old Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and related acts to block the property of 13 “malign…
First Majestic bids for Primero in friendly deal
First Majestic Silver’s (TSX: FR; NYSE: AG) proposed acquisition of Primero Mining (TSX: P) and its San Dimas silver-gold mine would bring the number of its operating silver mines in…
Barkerville on track for 2018 resource estimate
With 10 rigs active for most of last year and 157,000 metres of drilling, Barkerville Gold Mines (TSXV: BGM) says the program last year at its gold project in British…