Volume 103 Number 17 August 21 – September 3, 2017


Atico Mining's El Roble copper-gold-silver mine southwest of Medellin, Colombia. Credit: Atico Mining.

Northern Andes Snapshot: Eight active juniors

The northern Andean countries of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are fertile ground for mineral explorers and mine developers, with their rich mineral bounty, underexplored terrain and pro-mining cultures. What follows…






TSX finishes lower, Aug. 8-11

Increased political tensions on the Korean peninsula triggered more uncertainty across global markets, pushing down Canada’s benchmark index 1.47% to 15,033.38 — its biggest weekly drop since June. The geopolitical…


SolGold’s Cascabel camp, 180 km north of Quito in Ecuador. The company expects to ramp up from five to eight drill rigs before delivering its first inferred resource estimate at the property’s Alpala porphyry cluster later this year. Credit: SolGold.

SolGold expands Alpala

VANCOUVER  — SolGold (TSX: SOLG; USOTC: SLGGF; LON:SOLG) is building momentum at its 85%-owned Cascabel copper-gold project, 180 km north of Ecuador’s capital Quito. The company expects to ramp up  from…




At the Canadian Mining Symposium hosted by The Northern Miner at Canada House in London, U.K., in May 2017 (from left): session moderator Bill Whitelaw, executive vice-president of Northern Miner parent company Glacier Media and Kelvin Dushnisky, president of Barrick Gold. Photo by Martina Lang.

Barrick’s Dushnisky on miner’s rebound, JVs

At the Canadian Mining Symposium hosted by The Northern Miner at Canada House in London, U.K., in May, session moderator Bill Whitelaw, executive vice-president of Northern Miner parent company Glacier…


Drilling of face in service decline at the Kamoa deposit, part of Ivanhoe Mines' Kamoa-Kakula copper project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Credit: Ivanhoe Mines.

Sprott Conference: Friedland pitches metals used in EVs

VANCOUVER  — The electric vehicle revolution is accelerating, and it will inevitably change the orientation of the mining industry, Robert Friedland, executive chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, argued during a presentation…


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