Articles by Northern Miner Staff


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…



A drill site at Avala Resources' Timok gold project in Serbia, 270 km southeast of Belgrade. Credit:  Avala Resources

Avala’s open-pit mine plan for Timok in Serbia

VANCOUVER — Serbia has received attention lately as an under-explored jurisdiction for copper porphyry targets, but for junior Avala Resources (TSXV: AVZ) the story is all about gold. To this end, the company has just tabled an…





Drillers targeting the Sulphurets deposit at Seabridge Gold's KSM gold-copper project in northwestern B.C. Credit: Seabridge Gold

Seabridge goes deeper at KSM in BC

Seabridge Gold’s (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SA) chairman and CEO Rudi Fronk says the company anticipates good news from the exploration program it has launched at its KSM gold–copper project in northwestern B.C.


An aerial view of a camp under construction at Guyana Goldfields' Aurora gold project in Guyana. Credit: Guyana Goldfields

Guyana Goldfields fully funds Aurora

Guyana Goldfields (TSX: GUY) has secured financing to bring its Aurora gold project in Guyana into production by mid-2015. The good news came in the form of approvals by a group of lenders to provide US$185 million in debt financing to cover…



Detour Gold general manager of operations Chuck Hennessey (left) with president and CEO Paul Martin in the processing plant at the Detour Lake gold mine in Ontario. Photo by Trish Saywell.

Steady hands whip Detour Lake into shape

COCHRANE, ONTARIO — When you look at the careers of Detour Gold’s (TSX: DGC) chief operating officer Pierre Beaudoin and president and CEO Paul Martin, it’s almost as if both men had been groomed for their task of bringing the…



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