Dia Bras to cut travel costs with new Bolivar mill
Dia Bras Exploration (DIB-V) will temporarily stop a pilot mining program in the Cusi silver mining district near C…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
BRC scales back to preserve cash
Sustained lower prices for diamonds and the deepening economic downturn have led BRC DiamondCore (BCD-T, BCD-J) to …
Banro increases resource at Twangiza
Banro (BAA-T, BAA-x) has grown its resource at Twangiza in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by 49.7% to 5.6 mil…
Oromin keeps hitting gold in Senegal (January 13, 2009)
Vancouver – A 140,000-metre drilling effort in 2008 is paying off for Oromin Explorations (OLE-T): the company has …
Carpathian eyes Riacho dos Machodos redux
Vancouver – Drilling beneath and beyond the past-producing open pit at the Riacho dos Machodos (RDM) gold pro…
High Potash prices can’t save jobs
Gold, uranium and potash have been the three bright spots for the mining sector through what has been a historicall…
Bard boasts 200 million lbs. of moly at Lone Pine
Bard Ventures (CBS-V) will continue drilling on its Lone Pine project 15 km northwest of Houston, BC, after a posit…
El Nino falls on results from new DRC project
Vancouver – The first full set of drill results from El Nino Ventures’ (ELN-V) Kasala copper discovery in the…
Pan American ramping up 2009 silver production
Vancouver – Despite cutting its workforce by about 500 employees, reigning in expenditures on exploration and…
Glencore moving in on Katanga
Facing financial distress Katanga Mining’s (KAT-T) shareholders have agreed to allow the world’s largest commodity …
Positive economics for Western Prospector in Mongolia
Despite cost increases the economics are still profitable for Western Prospector’s (WNP-V) Gurvanbulag deposit in…
B2Gold moves ahead with Gramalote project
Now that B2Gold (BTO-T) has had a look at more than 30,000 metres worth of drill core assays from its Gramalote gol…