Commentary: Like Frodo, we should embrace our enemy’s enemy
Professor J.R.R. Tolkien died 50 years ago, and we can learn from his hero in Lord of the Rings, Frodo Baggins, who made an expedient choice for his guide into…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Canadian Miners in Mexico Snapshot: Eight companies to watch
Its strong infrastructure, long mining heritage and prospective mineral belts draw explorers and miners from near and far. Here are eight companies with exploration, development and producing projects in the…
Top ten US juniors to mid-tiers, outside of precious metals, coal
Nuclear fuel providers again led the largest United States-based junior and mid-tier mining companies valued from US$250 million to US$2 billion, excluding precious metals and coal producers. The data as…
JV Article: Precious metals producer Steppe Gold is set for growth as Mongolia is back on investors’ radars
Mongolia-based Steppe Gold (TSX: STGO) has just announced a US$150-million funding deal to fully finance the Phase 2 expansion of its flagship project ATO gold mine in Mongolia. With expected…
JV Article: Zero Terrain pumped hydro project preps to launch
North American mining contractors, equipment manufacturers and green energy investors have an opportunity to participate in a pumped hydro storage project in Estonia that will require the development of an…
JV Article: The world’s leading countries for mineral exploration
The world is working to build an environmentally sustainable future. At the heart of the challenge is a shift away from fossil fuels towards technologies with zero emissions or powered…
JV Article: Clean tech, strong resource nudges Osisko Development’s Cariboo Gold along permit path
Sean Roosen, CEO and chair of Osisko Development (TSXV: ODV; NYSE: ODV) isn’t one to rest on his laurels. A mining celebrity known for the discovery and development of the…
Is it time to buy deflated gold stocks?
It’s been a tough few weeks for the gold bulls. It was only two months ago they were screaming from the roof calling for a gold ‘break-out’ into all new…
Canada’s Top Ten precious metals juniors
The following companies are the Top Ten Canadian-headquartered precious metal juniors that are developing projects, ranked according to market capitalization as of June 1 and compiled by Mining Intelligence. Royalty…
JV Article: Denarius Metals develops high-grade projects in Spain and Colombia
Mine builder Serafino Iacono has made his mark in Colombia. At his former company, Gran Colombia Gold, he took the troubled Segovia gold project, which was in liquidation in 2010,…
JV Article: Brixton Metals gains traction with BHP strategic investment
It took more than a decade quietly assembling a contiguous claim block about the size of half a million football fields in northwestern British Columbia, but the effort seems to…
JV Article: Drill hits at Red Pine’s Wawa gold project spur new resource model
The latest drill results from Red Pine Exploration’s (TSXV: RPX, US-OTC: RDEXF) ongoing exploration program at its 100%-owned Wawa Gold project in Ontario confirm more significant mineralization west of the…