2011







Editorial: Grasberg violence escalates

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s Grasberg copper-gold mine in Indonesia’s Papua province continues to be a deadly place, with three contractor workers being murdered and two security personnel suffering gunshot wounds on Oct. 14.





Probe Mines CEO David Palmer at the Borden Lake gold project in Chapleau, Ontario. Photo by Trish Saywell

Who knew there was gold in Chapleau?

In the 11 years David Palmer has spent working in remote, infrastructure-challenged corners of northern Ontario and Quebec, the geologist has never had the luxury of stepping out of his hotel and being on-site within 15 minutes. Until Borden…


Ned Goodman

Canadian Mining Hall of Fame to honour five new inductees

The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, of which The Northern Miner is a sponsor, will welcome five new inductees at its twenty-fourth annual induction dinner on Jan. 12, 2012, at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto. The new inductees are Ned…


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