Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Vancouver — Diamond Fields International (DFI-T) has begun mining diamonds off the southern coast of Namibia, near Luderitz.

Randgold Resources (GOLD-Q) has sold its 80% stake in the dormant Syama gold mine in southern Mali to Resolute Mining of Australia. In return, Resolute paid Randgold US$6 million in cash and has assumed mine-r…

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Vancouver — The dormant heap-leach pads at Vista Gold‘s (VGZ-T) Hycroft mine in Nevada still contain about 600,000 oz. gold, and Pintail Environmental Solutions intends to extract some of it using microbes.

Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) has announced a 20% increase in reserves at the Alumbrera gold-copper mine in Argentina.

Wolfden Resources (WLF-T) has intersected significant copper-zinc-silver-gold mineralization on the High Lake property, about 175 km east-southeast of Kugluktuk, N.W.T.

Less than two months after De Beers withdrew from the Festival diamond project near Wawa, Ont., Pele Mountain Resources (GEM-V) has found a new partner in Goldcorp (G-T). The two companies h…

The US$654-million Collahuasi Rosario mine in Chile, co-owned by Falconbridge (FL-T) and Anglo American (AAUK-Q), is producing copper ahead of schedule and under budget.

Vancouver — StrataGold (SGV-V) has optioned the 14.2-sq.-km Tassawini gold property in northwestern Guyana.

Anatolia Minerals (ANOU-T) has defined considerable gold following reverse-circulation drilling at its pler project in east-central Turkey.

The trading period ended June 28 was punctuated by the early transfer of power in Iraq from U.S. authorities to an interim Iraqi government. The move sent energy stocks lower while, more broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial average dropped 37.98 poin…

The following is an excerpt from the ninth edition of Mining Explained, published by The Northern Miner.