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…
2017
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 46: The zinc show ft. lead
This week we’re talking zinc! Lesley’s Geology Corner digs into the three major types of zinc deposits, namely: Mississippi Valley, sedimentary exhalative deposits (SedEx deposits), and carbonate replacement. We discuss…
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…
Site visit: Southern Silver aims to grow Cerro las Minitas
GUADALUPE VICTORIA, DURANGO STATE, MEXICO — Southern Silver Exploration (TSXV: SSV) hopes that its polymetallic Cerro las Minitas project — “a hill of many small mines” in English — could…
New Gold struggles with cost overruns at Rainy River
VANCOUVER — Shares of Canadian gold miner New Gold (TSX: NGD; NYSE-MKT: NGD) were hit hard after revelations of more cost overruns and delays at its wholly owned Rainy River gold…
Detour postpones production from West Detour pit until 2021
A request by one of Detour Gold’s (TSX: DGC) aboriginal partners to submit the company’s environmental study report for its West Detour gold project to the federal government, in addition…
Japanese utility Tepco ends contract, Cameco to pursue legal rights
In a hastily convened February conference call, CEO Tim Gitzel of Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) vowed he would “vigorously pursue remedies to recover value for our shareholders and other…
Uranium snapshot: six juniors of interest
With uranium oxide prices making a rebound over the last two months after hitting 12-year lows, uranium juniors are seeing renewed interest from investors. Here are six such companies worth…
Editorial: Resource regulators under Trump
Amidst the flurry of executive orders signed by U.S. President Donald J. Trump — starting four hours after his inauguration on Jan. 20 — were several that benefited the resource…
Fission expands uranium resource at PLS
VANCOUVER — Fission Uranium (TSX: FCU; US-OTC: FCUUF) is trying to strike a fiscal balance between resource expansion and grassroots discovery at its Patterson Lake South (PLS) uranium project in the…
Toachi has VMS target by the tail at La Plata in Ecuador
La Plata — a gold-rich, volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit, 85 km south of Ecuador’s capital city of Quito — was the subject of small-scale mining from open-pit and underground…
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 45: Post Roundup 2017 ft. Yukon Deputy Premier
This week we head to the floor of AME BC’s Roundup 2017 conference in Vancouver, B.C., for exclusive Northern Miner coverage. Lesley’s geology corner heads to the Core Shack for…