Articles by Northern Miner Staff



Rio Narcea CEO Alberto Lavandeira (right foreground, in checkered shirt) discusses the Salave project with analysts in front of one of two Roman-era open pits that exploited the deposit's mineralized oxide cap.

Rio Narcea sizes up Salave project

Tapia de Casariego, Spain — The Salave project, near the northern coast in Spain’s Asturias province, is western Europe’s largest undeveloped gold project, and Rio Narcea Gold Mines (RNG-T) figures it is just the company to rem…


Alamos to go ahead at Salamandra

Alamos Gold (AGI-T) will put the Mulatos gold deposit in Sonora state, Mexico, into production following a feasibility study that found a 150,000-oz.-per-year mine would be profitable at present gold prices.


Weak Metal Prices spell gloom for juniors

The TSX Venture Exchange took another hit over the June 9-15 trading period, losing almost 50 points to close at 1523. The price of gold continued to struggle and ended the period at roughly US$389 per oz., down slightly from US$391 on June 8.



The Pimenton camp in the High Andes, 135 km northeast of Santiago and close to the border with Argentina.

Pimenton catapults SAG&C to producer status

Santiago, Chile — Having recently ramped up to production, the Pimenton gold and copper mine in the High Andes of central Chile is bringing South American Gold & Copper Co. (SAG-T) a big step closer to its goal of becoming a si…





Golden ribbons at Forest Hill

Acadian Gold (ADA-V) is defining high-grade gold intercepts at its 51-sq.-km Forest Hill project, 40 km southeast of Antigonish, N.S.


Ivanhoe resumes work at Kharmagtai

Vancouver — Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T) has resumed drilling on the Kharmagtai property, 120 km north of its Oyu Tolgoi (Turquoise Hill) copper-gold deposit in Mongolia.


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