Articles by Northern Miner Staff



Pan American Silver's Dolores silver-gold mine in northern Mexico. Credit: Pan American Silver

Pan American Silver defers Dolores expansion

VANCOUVER — Adding an underground operation and a pulp agglomeration circuit to the open-pit Dolores silver–gold mine in Mexico would improve recoveries, boost throughout, increase free cash flow and cost only US$105 million to…



Venture slides, June 23-27

The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index ended the week down 3.4 points at 1,022.97. But the close kept the index within the higher range it has enjoyed since February, when it reattained the 1,000-point mark after trading below this level for…



TSX hits record high, June 16-20

Canada’s benchmark index gained for the third straight week. The S&P/TSX Composite Index climbed 107.36 points to finish the week at 15,108.97, before reaching an all-time closing high of 15,112.22 points a day earlier.


Capstone Mining's Santo Domingo iron oxide-copper-gold project in Chile's Atacama region, 130 km northeast of Copiapo in 2014. Credit: Capstone Mining

Capstone’s Santo Domingo feasibility shows potential

Capstone Mining (TSX: CS; US-OTC: CSFFF) has published a promising feasibility study for its Santo Domingo iron oxide–copper–gold project in Chile’s Region III, showing it could churn out an average 248 million lb. copper in…


Rubicon Minerals' Phoenix gold project in northwestern Ontario. Credit: Rubicon Minerals

Rubicon keeps Phoenix on course

Thanks to two financing deals that came through early this year, developer Rubicon Minerals (TSX: RMX; NYSE-MKT: RBY) now says  mine construction is half complete at its Phoenix gold project in Ontario’s Red Lake camp, and the…



Gold dor produced at Lake Shore Gold's Timmins West gold-mining complex in Ontario.  Credit: Lake Shore Gold

Lake Shore prepays $10M in debt

Toronto-based Lake Shore Gold (TSX: LSG; NYSE-MKT: LSG) says its strong operating results and growing cash position has helped it make a $10-million prepayment on a standby line of credit with Sprott Resource Lending Partnership, reducing the…



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