Commerce pushing for Canada’s first rare earth mine
Vancouver-based Commerce Resources (TSXV: CCE; US-OTC: CMRZF) is trying to confirm the feasibility of what could be the first large-scale rare earth element (REE) mine in Canada and one of…
2017
Dolly Varden expands drill campaign after speedy start
VANCOUVER — Dolly Varden Silver (TSXV: DV; US-OTC: DOLLF) is wrapping up a bountiful exploration season in northwestern B.C.’s Golden Triangle region. The company had originally planned a $3.5-million, 5,000-metre diamond…
Clean TeQ boosts cobalt grade by 30% at Sunrise
Just a little over a month after it signed an offtake agreement with one of the world’s largest producers of cathode material for the lithium-ion battery industry, Clean TeQ Holdings…
Silver Viper takes first bite at Clemente
VANCOUVER — Newly branded Silver Viper Minerals (TSXV: VIPR) has launched a drill campaign at its 62.1 sq. km Clemente silver-gold project in Sonora, northern Mexico, just days after the company…
Silver & PGM Snapshot: Seven juniors with projects spanning the Americas
While falling short of the glamour of gold, the other major precious metals — namely silver, platinum and palladium — nevertheless have a strong hold on the imaginations of many…
Book excerpt: Budding mogul J.P. Bickell’s hunt for gold in Ontario
The would-be millionaire John Paris Bickell had first become interested in the metals of the earth during a trip to the Yukon goldfields as a young man. Then, in 1903,…
Editorial: Gold majors gather in Colorado Springs
The unofficial theme of this year’s annual gathering of the world’s biggest gold miners at the Denver Gold Forum in Colorado Springs, Colo., in late September could very well have…
Candelaria Mining dodges politics at Caballo Blanco in Mexico
After acquiring the Caballo Blanco project in the Mexican state of Veracruz a little more than a year ago, Candelaria Mining (TSXV: CAND) prepared a new environmental impact assessment (MIA)…
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 76: Commodities outlook & geophysics 101
We’re back with a mega-commodity outlook special that takes a look macroeconomic conditions heading into the fourth quarter of 2017. Matt reads through Scotia Capital’s massive, 65-page commodity update and…
TSX rises slightly, Oct. 2-6
Canada’s benchmark index rose $93.38 to 15,728.32, a 0.60% change, while the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index rose 3.38% to 68.45 and the S&P/TSX Global Gold index rose 2.87% to 201.87….
TSX Venture gains, Oct. 2-6
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index gained 7.09 points to a 788.32-point close, as spot gold prices fell US$3.07 to US$1,276.68 per oz., whereas Comex copper prices gained US7¢ to US$3.03…
US markets finish higher, Oct. 2-6
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the last 12 months, average hourly earnings increased by 74¢ or 2.9%. The jobs data raised expectations of a rate hike…