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Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Met coal producers prepare for long price weakness
The benchmark price for metallurgical coal has dropped to a multi-year low of US$119 per tonne, and Moody’s Investors Service doesn’t see much relief for met coal producers until the second half of 2016. In the meantime, it warns,…
Tahoe set to expand Escobal
VANCOUVER — Tahoe Resources (TSX: THO; NYSE: TAHO) has expanded resources and tabled an updated feasibility study at its high-grade Escobal silver mine in southeast Guatemala, setting the stage for expanded silver production…
TSX posts gains, Nov. 10-14
The S&P/TSX Composite Index posted its fifth straight week of gains, buoyed in part by strong economic data showing manufacturing sales in Canada climbed 2.1% to $53 billion in September, compared with a 3.5% drop in August. The S&P/TSX…
Editorial: Survey says … Aboriginal Canadians have low opinion of mining industry
In another sign of the growing political power of First Nations in Canada, Vancouver-based public relations firm PR Associates has unveiled the results of the first-ever survey of aboriginal Canadians living in rural and remote areas to gauge…
Foran’s positive PEA at McIlvenna Bay
Foran Mining (TSXV: FOM) has touched a milestone at its flagship McIlvenna Bay project in east-central Saskatchewan, with the completion of a promising preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the zinc-copper-gold-silver volcanogenic massive…
Glencore to shut Australian coal mines temporarily
Glencore (LSE: GLEN) says it plans to shut down its coal operations in Australia for three weeks starting from mid-December due to slack demand and weak prices.
Sean Roosen on Osisko’s new plan, Virginia deal
VANCOUVER — It’s been a wild year for Sean Roosen and his team at Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX: OR; US-OTC: OKSKF), but now that the dust has settled the company looks poised to become a major player in the royalty and…
CPM Group’s Jeffrey Christian on gold’s future
Jeffrey Christian, managing director of the CPM Group, a New York-based research consulting firm, took time out to talk to The Northern Miner about the gold price and the state of the gold mining sector.
TSX Venture rebounds, Nov. 10-14
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index squeaked out a gain due to a late-week surge during the trading period, closing up 6.37 points at 776.63 points. Gains were underpinned by stronger metal futures despite China’s slower industrial…
Odds ‘n’ sods: Mining the Memories – Tough muckers
Many of the miners — or muckers, as those men who loaded the ore cars were called — came to Canada from Europe after the First and Second World Wars in search of a more peaceful life where one could earn an honest dollar, without…
US stocks march up, Nov. 10-14
U.S. equities are up for the fourth straight week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 60.81 points to 17,634.74, while the S&P 500 Index rose 7.9 points to a record high of 2,039.82. The Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 56.01 points to…