Articles by Northern Miner Staff



Tesla Motors   has signed a conditional agreement with joint-venture partners Bacanora Minerals   and Rare Earth Minerals    to secure long-term resources from the juniors' Sonora Lithium project, 180 km northeast of Hermosillo in northern Mexico's Sonora state. Credit: Bacanora Minerals

Patricia Mohr names lithium as one of top picks for 2016

Most mined commodities declined in price this year, but spot prices in China for lithium carbonate actually increased, rising 15% year-on-year to as high as US$7,500 per tonne, making it one of Patricia Mohr’s top picks for 2016.


NGEx Resources' Filo del Sol silver-copper-gold exploration project in western Argentina's San Juan province, 140 km southeast of the city of Copiapo, Chile.Credit:  NGEx Resources

Blue sky for NGEx at Filo del Sol

NGEx Resources (TSX: NGQ; US-OTC: NGQRF) has bulked up the resource at its Filo del Sol silver-copper-gold deposit, located in Argentina’s San Juan province, and is taking a step back to evaluate how to expand the epithermal system’s…



TSX dips below 13,000 mark, Dec. 4-10

Tumbling oil prices sent the energy-heavy S&P/TSX Composite Index below 13,000 for the first time since 2013, before finishing at 13,016.59, down 2.3%. Brent crude closed at US$39.73 per barrel on Dec. 10 — less than half of the…






Drillers at work during Pilot Gold's 2015 drilling campaign in the historic Hamburg Pit area at the Goldstrike gold project, 56 km northwest of St. George, Utah. Credit: Pilot Gold

Pilot rediscovers a Carlin-style gold trend in Utah

It’s not every day that a junior exploration company takes a step outside the well-trodden Carlin and Cortez districts of Nevada to look for Carlin-style gold deposits, but Pilot Gold (TSX: PLG; US-OTC: PLGTF) is proving to be the…


The concentrator building at the now-shuttered Bloom Lake iron ore mine, photographed in 2010 when it was in operation. Credit: Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines

Champion Iron buys Bloom Lake for $10.5M

Champion Iron (TSX: CIA; ASX: CIA) is taking advantage of the commodities crash to snatch the shuttered Bloom Lake iron ore mine in the Labrador Trough for a fraction of its previous purchase price.


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