Articles by Northern Miner Staff


The headframe and shaft at Ivanhoe Mines' Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project, in Mongolia. In an address at the Denver Gold Forum, Ivanhoe CEO Robert Friedland plugged the virtues of copper, demand for which he sees as rising.

Copper ‘the real gold’

Describing many of the world’s current copper projects as “old ladies waiting in bed to die,” Robert Friedland, chief executive of Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-n), told analysts and investors at the Denv…


Inspecting core samples at Fortuna Silver Mines' San Jose silver-gold project, in Oaxaca, Mexico. A 33,000-metre infill drill program at the project began in June.

San Jose smiles on Fortuna

Infill drill results from Fortuna Silver Mines’ (FVI-V, FVITF-o) 33,000-metre program at the San Jose silver-gold project in Oaxaca, Mexico, are starting to come in.


Digby Wells & Associates joins Behre Dolbear Group

Minerals industry adviser Behre Dolbear Group has announced plans to acquire and join environmental solutions provider Digby Wells & Associates with its pre-existing firm Behre Dolbear Environment…


(Top) Preparing ore for shipping at Excellon Resources' Platosa silver-lead-zinc mine, in Durango state, Mexico. The company has been shipping crushed ore 45 km to Industrias Penoles' Naica mill since it began mining at the project in 2005. (Bottom) Working underground at the project. Excellon has started building a 350-tonne-per-day lead-zinc flotation mill at Platosa.

Excellon starts construction of Platosa mill

The permits are in for Excellon Resources (EXN-T, EXLLF-o) to build a new lead/zinc flotation mill at its high-grade silver-lead-zinc Platosa mine in Durango state, Mexico.



Snowden to prepare Golden Peaks resource

Snowden Group is set to prepare an independent resource calculation for Argentinian-focused mining company Golden Peaks Resources’ (GL-T, GDPEF-o) La Fortuna gold project.



Local workers at Linear Metal's Cobre Grande copper project, in Mexico's Oaxaca state, relocate plants in advance of building drill access. The project hosts an inferred resource of 50 million tonnes grading 0.5% copper, 0.04% molybdenum, 0.22% zinc and 13 grams silver.

Linear Metals expands Cobre Grande

Using assays from the last two reverse- circulation holes on its Cobre Grande copper project in Mexico, Linear Metals (LRM-t) has extended the El Oso mineralized zone to a strike length of 300 metres….




TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE – SEPT. 30-OCT. 6

Relentless volatility and steep declines dragged the TSX Composite Index to levels not seen since 2005 over the Sept. 30-Oct. 6 trading period. Although the U. S. government finally passed a sweetened…


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