Kirkland Lake Gold (TSX: KGI; US-OTC: KGI) kicked off 2014 with news that it is exploring alternatives to “enhance shareholder value that include a potential sale of the company’s shares or assets” and has set up a special…
A pillar of the Toronto mining community, Ed Thompson kicked off the new year by resigning from his many directorships in junior mining companies. As he tells The Northern Miner, part of the reason for doing so all at once was that he was…
It was a record breaking year for Lake Shore Gold (TSX: LSG; NYSE: LSG) and the market finally seems to be taking notice.
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index dropped 6.29 points during the trading sessions en route to closing at 888.18. Markets reacted positively late in the trading period after the U.S. Federal Reserve opted to modestly cut its bond-buying…
Last week, we awarded our “Mining Persons of the Year” for 2013 to Fission Uranium (TSXV-FCU) president and COO Ross McElroy and chairman and CEO Dev Randhawa. This week we interview McElroy, and next week, Randhawa, on their careers, Fission…
Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR; US-OTC: ARNGF) has completed a prefeasibility study (PFS) based on 40% of a 2013 resource estimate for its Magino property, 40 km northeast of Wawa, Ont. The PFS excludes underground and surface drilling data prior to…
VANCOUVER — The B.C. government’s rejection of junior Pacific Booker Minerals’ (TSXV: BKM; NYSE-MKT: PBM) environmental assessment (EA) certificate at its Morrison Lake copper–gold project, located 65 km north of…
It’s been a record year of growth for www.northernminer.com, with the site now attracting more than 85,000 visits per month, and almost half a million unique visitors for all of 2013. Here is a selection of the most-clicked stories over…
Like in any industry, supply-demand imbalances in mining products are at the root of dramatic price fluctuations and market upheavals. This is what has been happening in the mining industry in 2013: market imbalances have led to rock bottom…
Golden Band Resources (TSXV: GBN) is indefinitely suspending its Roy Lloyd and Golden Heart gold mines and the Jolu mill in northern Saskatchewan, starting Jan. 1, 2014.
A merger between Canada Lithium (TSX: CLQ; US-OTC: CLQMF) and Sirocco Mining (TSXV: SIM; US-OTC: ATAAF) would make the combined entity one of just two public companies that produce iodine and lithium, the companies say.
Since the days of the Manhattan project, there have been three conventional rules for finding uranium mineralization in Saskatchewan: it occurs in the Athabasca basin, usually in the lowest sandstone unit that’s in contact with the…
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