PDAC: Seafloor mining balances pros and cons
Commercial production of undersea mining could become a reality in less than five years, but at a potentially high cost to seafloor ecosystems, panellists told the Prospectors & Developers Association…
Articles by Blair McBride
PDAC: Insurance motive to keep pushing up gold prices
Insurance from currency devaluation is the main reason countries such as China are buying gold, driving up its price, panellists told the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference. The…
Editorial: Still drilling after all these years
The Northern Miner turns 110 this March and is looking pretty good for its age. Much better, for example, than cobalt, which is also the name of the Ontario town…
Laramide boosts Westmoreland tonnage by a third
An update to Laramide Resources’ (TSX, ASX: LAM; US-OTC: LMRXF) Westmoreland uranium project in northern Australia increases indicated tonnage by 34% and inferred tonnage by 11% over the previous resource from…
Q&A: The Metals Co. plunges into the deep
You may have heard of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean. It’s a stretch of area from Hawaii to Mexico, which has been targeted by the deep-sea mining sector….
What happens when the tax gets axed?
Canada’s major political parties have all tabled plans to chop the carbon tax but there’s been little discussion on reforming the emissions levies applied to industry, which has fomented uncertainty…
Avalon bumps Separation Rapids lithium resource by 28% in Ontario
Avalon Advanced Materials (TSX: AVL; US-OTC: AVLNF) has boosted measured and indicated tonnage at its Separation Rapids hard rock lithium project in northwestern Ontario by 28% over a resource from…
Silver X Mining raises tonnage 18% at Peru property
Silver X Mining (TSXV: AGX; US-OTC: AGXPF) has raised the measured and indicated tonnage at its Nueva Recuperada Property in southwest Peru by 18% over a preliminary economic assessment from…
Aya Gold ups Boumadine’s tonnage 160%
Aya Gold & Silver (TSX: AYA; US-OTC: AYASF) boosted the indicated resource at its Boumadine project in Morocco by 160% and the inferred resource by 24% over the previous report…
Collective drills best hole yet at Guayabales
Collective Mining (TSX, NYSE: CNL) has drilled the best intercept yet at its Guayabales project in western Colombia, with one hole returning a result as high as 23.36 grams gold…
Which projects may gain if Trump overhauls permitting?
In early February, two weeks after President Donald Trump’s inauguration and flurry of executive orders, Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX: NDM; NYSE: NAK) CEO Ron Thiessen sent an optimistic letter to…
Site visit: NMR seeks Forrest-inspired phoenix at Blackjack in Australia
Native Mineral Resources (ASX: NMR) only recently acquired its primary asset in Queensland, but it has set an aggressive schedule to restart production. The Sydney-based explorer bought the Far Fanning…