Articles by Northern Miner Staff


Arianne Phosphate's Lac--Paul phosphate project in Quebec, 200 km north of Saguenay. Credit: Arianne Phosphate

Arianne chops opex at Lac–Paul

Arianne Phosphate’s (TSXV: DAN; US-OTC: DRRSF) chief operating officer, Jean-Sébastien David, is on a mission to cut anticipated operating expenses at the company’s Lac-à-Paul phosphate project in Quebec by US$10 per…


A SAG mill at Eldorado Gold's Skouries gold-copper project under construction in northern Greece. Credit: Eldorado Gold

Eldorado falls on Greek opposition, weak outlook

Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO) shares have plunged after two events: Greece’s new left-wing government’s opposition to the company building a gold mine in the country, and a weaker-than-expected 2015 guidance. Eldorado recently…


The processing plant at Endeavour Mining's Tabakoto gold mine in Mali. Credit: Endeavour Mining

Endeavour beats down costs, targets debt

VANCOUVER — Gold producer Endeavour Mining (TSX: EDV; US-OTC: EDVMF) should be happy with its results over the past year. The company has dropped its all-in sustaining costs, brought a new project online and hit a gold production record.


Mining personnel exit Klondex Mines' Fire Creek gold mine in Nevada. Credit: Klondex Mines

Klondex Gold’s Paul Huet ‘is all in’

With two producing underground mines in Nevada, plans to spend $33 million on exploration and development in 2015, and a goal of growing production to between 150,000 and 200,000 equivalent oz. gold by 2016, one could argue that Klondex Mines…





A drill targeting the Jay diamond deposit, near Dominion Diamond's majority-owned Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories. Credit: Dominion Diamond

Jay pipe could add 11 years to Ekati mine life

Dominion Diamond’s (TSX: DDC; NYSE: DDC) prefeasibility study for the Jay kimberlite pipe deposit shows it could add 11 years to the life of its Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories’ Lac de Gras region.


Baja Mining's Boleo copper-cobalt-zinc project in Mexico's Baja California Sur state. Credit:  Baja Mining

Baja Mining’s Boleo produces first copper

When Tom Ogryzlo replaced John Greenslade as head of Baja Mining (TSXV: BAJ) in May 2012, the company and its then 70%-owned copper-cobalt-zinc Boleo project in Mexico were in freefall — reeling from hundreds of millions of dollars in…



The headframe for shaft #3 at the Dome gold mine in Timmins, Ontario in 1980.  Illustration by Denis Newman

Letter to the editor: Thanks for the support

I have produced to date over 2,500 sketches of mines that have been located across Canada from the 1880s to the present. These mines extracted a broad range of product: diamonds, gold, silver, nickel, uranium, etc.


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