Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Altan Nevada Minerals' North Star gold project in Nevada. Credit: Altan Nevada Minerals

Altan CEO gets creative to finance greenfield exploration

VANCOUVER — It has been a lean two years for mineral explorers, and Evan Jones has seen just how tough capital markets have been on juniors, having guided sister companies Altan Rio Minerals (TSXV: AMO) and Altan Nevada Minerals (TSXV:…


Processing facilities at Kirkland Lake Gold's  Macassa project. Credit: Kirkland Lake Gold

Kirkland Lake Gold drills shallow high grade

Near-surface drilling that has returned an intercept of 1,718.06 grams gold per tonne over a true width of 0.6 metre from 280 metres below surface — 1.5 km from Kirkland Lake Gold’s (TSX: KGI; US-OTC: KGILF) operating Macassa…



Moneta finds new gold zone at Golden Highway

Toronto-based Moneta Porcupine Mines (TSX: ME; OTC: MPUCF) is up on strong assays from a hole drilled outside of the current resource at its 100% owned Golden Highway gold project in Timmins, Ont.



A raw water pond at MBAC Fertilizer's  Itafos Arraias project in Brazil. Credit: MBAC Fertilizer

MBAC thriving in Brazil’s fertilizer sector

After a three-year decline, phosphate fertilizer prices are rising again. Prices for diammonium phosphate, the most commonly used fertilizer, have increased by 20% since bottoming last November, while prices for triple super phosphate have…


Sabina Gold & Silver's exploration camp on the Goose property, part of the company's Back River gold project in southwestern Nunavut. Credit: Sabina Gold & Silver

Sabina boosts Back River resource

VANCOUVER — With an 83,000-metre drill program completed last year, Sabina Gold & Silver (TSX: SBB) has grown and upgraded the resource at its Back River gold project in Nunavut a few months before a feasibility study gets underway.


TSX Venture holds steady, Feb. 24-28

After ascending for almost three weeks, the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index treaded water over the trading period, ending the week up 3.71 points at 1,025.37. Trading activity remained strong, with an average of 77.9 million shares trading…




An aerial view of Taseko Mines' New Prosperity project in central British Columbia. Credit: Taseko Mines

Taseko denied New Prosperity

VANCOUVER — Despite a $300-million adaptation to save Fish Lake, the Canadian government will not allow Taseko Mines (TSX: TKO; NYSE-MKT: TGB) to build a $1.5-billion open-pit copper–gold mine at its New Prosperity project in…



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