Pure Gold’s fresh look at Madsen in Red Lake
VANCOUVER — The drills are turning in the shadow of a head frame at Pure Gold Mining’s (TSXV: PGM; US-OTC: LRTNF) Madsen gold property in Ontario’s prolific Red Lake gold…
Articles by Adrian Pocobelli
US markets move higher, March 7-11
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index hit new highs for 2016 on the back of steady oil price gains (U.S. crude settled at US$38.50 per barrel…
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 3: When M&A attacks!
Staff writers Lesley Stokes and Matthew Keevil are busy following a flurry of merger and acquisition deals, including: Lundin Mining and Freeport-McMoRan; Endeavour Mining and True Gold; and Silver Standard…
PDAC 2016: Premier Bob McLeod on mining in the NWT
Bob McLeod, the premier of the Northwest Territories, caught up with The Northern Miner at the recent Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto to talk about the…
First Quantum sells Kevitsa to Boliden
VANCOUVER — Burdened with debt, First Quantum Minerals’ (TSX: FM) has struck a deal to sell its Kevitsa nickel mine in northern Finland to Swedish integrated miner Boliden AB (US-OTC: BDNNF). Kevitsa…
PDAC 2016: Engineering reports fail to impress
A review for adequacy and quality of 34 development-stage National Instrument (NI) 43-101 studies on Sedar showed nearly half lacked engineering rigour, Tim Oliver, an environmental engineer and independent consultant,…
PDAC 2016: China remains ‘engine of growth’
Philip Macoun, managing consultant at London-based CRU Consulting, shared an overview on China’s impact on commodity markets, along with his outlook for copper, coal, iron ore and gold, at the…
What an HR manager can do in a downturn
Asking miners to work on their Human Resources strategy when the industry horizon appears to hold little that is positive may appear futile. But changes already underway in the employment…
TSX Venture rallies to six month high, Feb. 29-March 4
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index broke a six-month high, jumping 4%, or 24.33 points, to a 562.39-point close, on the back of surging commodity prices. Spot gold rallied 2.9% to…
TSX rises on strong mining stocks, Feb. 29-March 4
A smaller-than-expected Canadian trade deficit in January (exports reached $46 billion and export volumes were up 3.6% month-on-month), stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs data and higher commodity prices (U.S. crude rose nearly…
PDAC 2016: Andrew Cheatle shares his upbeat view on the industry
This year’s annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention, now in its 84th year, attracted more than 22,000 attendees, including inventors, analysts, mining executives, government officials and students….
PDAC 2016: Transparency, education needed to restore confidence in miners, Brent Cook says
Brent Cook, an independent exploration analyst and editor of Exploration Insights, delivered a talk in early March at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention on whether there is…