Prefontaine hopes to duplicate La India success at Cerro Quema
As president and CEO of Grayd Resource, geologist Marc Prefontaine and his team discovered the La India gold deposit, 200 km east of Hermosillo in Sonora, Mexico, selling it to…
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PDAC 2017: Randgold’s Bristow on managing gold price cyclicality
Randgold Resources’ (LSE: RRS; NASDAQ: GOLD) chief executive Mark Bristow gave a talk on how to create and protect shareholder value in gold mining during the March 6 keynote session…
Robert Friedland, Lukas Lundin, David Garofalo and Kelvin Dushnisky to be featured speakers at TNM’s Canadian Mining Symposium in London
The Northern Miner in partnership with the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) and supported by the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom and The Canadian Mining…
Matt Manson our Mining Person of the Year
There’s something to be said for being first. And Matt Manson, The Northern Miner’s choice as Mining Person of the Year for 2016, bears the distinction of guiding Stornoway Diamond…
From teen prospector to PDAC president
Glenn Mullan, president and CEO of Golden Valley Mines (TSXV: GZZ) and chairman of Abitibi Royalties (TSXV: RZZ), has spent the last 40 years working in the mining industry. He…
Can Rubicon’s Phoenix rise from the ashes?
The demise of Rubicon Minerals’ (TSX: RMX; US-OTC: RBYCD) Phoenix gold mine in Ontario’s Red Lake camp stunned the industry. Trial mining of the project’s F2 gold deposit was called…
Rye Patch on verge of becoming Nevada’s next gold producer
Since cofounding Rye Patch Gold (TSXV: RPM; US-OTC: RPMGF) a little over a decade ago, president and CEO William Howald has folded seven projects into the junior’s asset portfolio and…
Canadian Mining Hall of Fame hails five industry leaders: Zigarlick, Vaughan, McLeod, Carter and McEwen
The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame (CMHF) bestowed honours on five industry trailblazers at its twenty-ninth induction ceremony in January at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The 2017 inductees —…
Pilot expects Goldstrike resource by mid-year
In the last five months Pilot Gold (TSX: PLG) has found five gold zones at its Goldstrike project in southwestern Utah near the state’s border with Nevada. Goldstrike — a…
NewCastle punches above its weight class at Castle Mountain
Six months ago, NewCastle Gold (TSX: NCA) enticed Gerald Panneton to join the company as president and CEO to help put its past-producing Castle Mountain project in California back into…
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…
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…