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The portal at Fresnillo and MAG Silver's Juanicipio silver project in Mexico. Credit: Mag Silver.

Canada’s top-10 precious metal juniors

The Northern Miner has pulled together the top-10 precious metal juniors (with no production and excluding royalty companies) that are headquartered in Canada, arranged by market capitalization as of the…


Drilling equipment at Barrick's Pascua-Lama gold-silver project. Credit: Barrick Gold.

BMO: Gold miners may revisit 
dormant megaprojects

VANCOUVER — The last five years have seen large-cap gold miners shelve and write down many ambitious, greenfield development projects that carry significant price tags and heightened risk. Miners instead refocused…


Puma Exploration technician Yvan Ringuet at the Murray Brook VMS project in New Brunswick, 60 km west of Bathurst. Credit: Puma Exploration.

Puma beats staking rush in NB

Puma Exploration (TSXV: PUM) has been active in northern New Brunswick’s  Bathurst mining camp for more than a decade, but stepped up its involvement last year with agreements to acquire…


An undated photo of the camp at NovaGold Resources' Donlin Gold project in Alaska, now a joint venture with Barrick Gold. Credit: NovaGold Resources.

Top 10 Canadian-based gold developers

Gold exploration and development is enjoying a boom again, and Canadian juniors are leading project advancement at home and abroad. The following are the top-10, Canadian-headquartered gold companies that are…




TSX falls, Oct. 3-7

Canada’s benchmark index fell ahead of the Thanksgiving long weekend, dropping 1.08% to 14,566.26, despite positive jobs data. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index slumped 5.5% to 61.45, while the S&P/TSX…



The field camp at Trilogy Metals's Bornite copper project in northwestern Alaska. Credit: Trilogy Metals.

NovaCopper prepares for a big year

NovaCopper (TSX: NCQ; NYSE-MKT: NCQ) will be coming out with an updated resource estimate for its Bornite carbonate-hosted copper deposit in northwestern Alaska before the end of March, and expects to kick off a prefeasibility study of Arctic,…


Men walk into an  adit at the Wellgreen PGM-nickel-copper project in the Yukon. Credit: Prophecy Platinum

Prophecy Platinum reports a half-mile of mineralization

Picture seven football fields in a row of continuous mineralization, and that’s the width of platinum group metal (PGM) mineralization intercepted in a single drill hole at Prophecy Platinum’s (TSXV: NKL; US-OTC: PNIKF) Wellgreen…


NovaCopper's Arctic polymetallic project in northwest Alaska's Ambler mining district. Source: NovaCopper

NovaCopper defines open-pit mine in Alaska

NovaCopper (TSX: NCQ; NYSE-Arca: NCQ) — a junior explorer that NovaGold Resources (TSX: NG; NYSE-Arca: NG) spun out early last year to explore and develop its Upper Kobuk mineral projects in the Ambler mining district of northwestern…


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