Canadian gov’t bankrolls Women in Mining initiative
Status of Women Canada has pledged $250,000 to fund a new project designed to get more women employed in the mining industry.
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Commentary: Australia, its economy and mining
You can expect a salary of A$150,000 or more as a truck driver at a remote iron ore project in Australia. The country has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the economic boom in China, having grown continuously for more than two decades….
Short Position Report
TSX Short Positions Short positions outstanding at Nov.15/14 (with changes from Oct.31/14). …
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…
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.
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…
University of Waterloo students win National Mining Competition
A quartet of engineering students from the University of Waterloo took the top prize at the third annual National Mining Competition in Saskatoon in early November.
Pure Gold joins Red Lake’s ‘exploration renaissance’
RED LAKE, ONTARIO — For the management team at newly minted Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM; US-OTC: LRTNF), picking up the past-producing Madsen gold project marked a return to a gold camp that has played a formative role in their…