Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Project geologist Jared Tarswell (left) and Rockhaven Resources CEO Matt Turner at the Klaza gold-silver project in central Yukon. Photo by Gwen Preston.

Rockhaven has high hopes for Klaza in Yukon

CARMACKS, YUKON — Rockhaven Resources (TSXV: RK) is not the first, second, or even third company to explore the Klaza project in central Yukon, but it is the first company to find what the others had sought: epithermal gold and silver.



Banro's Twangiza gold mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Credit: Banro

Banro finds ‘relief’ in new financing plan

Banro (TSX: BAA; NYSE-MKT: BAA) has crafted a large financing plan to improve its liquidity and ability to bring Namoya, its second gold mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to full production. The plan includes a US$35.5…


A worker handles drill rods at Duluth Metals and Antofagasta's Twin Metals copper-nickel-PGM project in Minnesota. Credit: Duluth Metals

Price tag for Duluth’s Twin Metals nears US$3B

The release of a prefeasibility study estimating that its Twin Metals copper-nickel-platinum group metals joint-venture project would cost US$2.8 billion to build sent Duluth Metals (TSX: DM; USOTC: DULMF) shares tumbling by more than 25%.



A drill rig in 2006 at the Hatu gold project in China's Xinjiang province. Credit: Dynasty Gold

Dynasty Gold fights to retain assets in China

Vancouver-based Dynasty Gold (TSXV: DYG) was one of the first Canadian juniors to explore for gold in China. It entered into a cooperative joint-venture in December 2003 with a Chinese state-owned enterprise to explore for gold…


TSX posts small increase, Aug. 18-22

The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 1.51% to 15,535.55 while the S&P/TSX Capped Metals & Mining Index advanced 0.63% to 890.66. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index fell 2.76% to 198.41 and the gold spot price fell 1.8% or US$23.70 per…



Cliffs to buy back shares

A month after activist hedge fund Casablanca Capital succeeded in gaining control of the board at Cliffs Natural Resources (NYSE: CLF), the troubled iron ore and metallurgical coal miner says it plans to buy back US$200 million worth of its own…





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