Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Suppliers news: SGS lab in Turkey gets accredited

Inspection, verification, testing and certification services firm SGS has announced that its laboratory in Ankara, Turkey has been recognized by the International Accreditation Service for meeting the requirements for specific registered tests…




A portal at Klondex Mines' Midas gold-silver mine in Nevada. Source: Klondex Mines

Klondex adds life to Midas with aggressive drilling

When Klondex Mines (TSX: KDX; US-OTC: KLNDF) bought the Midas gold-silver mine in Nevada from Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) in early 2014, Newmont had penciled in March 2015 as the date the underground operation would reach the end of its mine…




The secondary crusher at Copper Mountain Mining's namesake copper mine in British Columbia. Credit: Copper Mountain Mining.

Technical troubles dog Copper Mountain in Q1

Mechanical difficulties at Copper Mountain Mining’s (TSX: CUM) 75%-owned Copper Mountain mine in southern B.C. involving a transformer failure on one of the ball mills in February and a 10-day disruption with the regrind mill in March…





TSX posts slim gain, March 30-April 2

Canada’s gross domestic product shrank 0.1% in January compared with a 0.3% rise in December, but the drop was less than some economists had anticipated, and the country’s benchmark index gained 1.5% to finish at 15,026.62. (Markets…


At the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto in March, from left: Al Shefsky, president of Pele Mountain Resources; Michael Gravelle, Ontario Minister of Northern Development and Mines; Janis Peleshok, director; Martin Cooper, vice-president of Aboriginal Affairs; and Margie Bugarin, resource administrator. Source: Pele Mountain Resources

Pele Mountain moves monazite processing plan ahead

When Pele Mountain Resources (TSXV: GEM; US-OTC: GOLDF) announced a strategy in October 2014 to extract and separate rare earth elements from monazite concentrate imported from overseas at its Eco Ridge project in Elliott Lake, the plan caught…


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