Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Editorial: Potash earthquake

Like a sudden Saskatchewan thunderstorm, the potash market surprised everyone yet again with its capacity for drama and destruction, as everyone learned just how important the Russian-Belarusian potash cartel had been all this time in…



Colossus falls on delay at Serra Pelada

Colossus Minerals’ (TSX: CSI; US-OTC: COLUF) shares fell hard after the company announced that it needs more dewatering capacity at its Serra Pelada polymetallic development project in Brazil.



Jack McOuat.

Obituary: WGM’s Jack McOuat

John (Jack) McOuat, an icon of the Toronto mining scene and the last surviving co-founder of the independent geological and mining consulting firm Watts, Griffis and McOuat (WGM), died on July 30 at age 80 at the Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto.


NovaCopper's Arctic polymetallic project in northwest Alaska's Ambler mining district. Source: NovaCopper

NovaCopper defines open-pit mine in Alaska

NovaCopper (TSX: NCQ; NYSE-Arca: NCQ) — a junior explorer that NovaGold Resources (TSX: NG; NYSE-Arca: NG) spun out early last year to explore and develop its Upper Kobuk mineral projects in the Ambler mining district of northwestern…





The historic Cetate pit at Gabriel Resources' Rosia Montana gold-silver project in Romania. Source: Gabriel Resources

Gabriel remains hopeful at Rosia Montana

Gabriel Resources (TSX: GBU; US-OTC) may see a positive development at its delayed Rosia Montana gold-silver deposit in west-central Romania, as the government recently highlighted the asset in its new plan to attract foreign investment,…


Landing at Panoro Minerals' Cotabambas copper project in Peru in late 2012. Photo by Matthew Keevil.

Long hit stokes optimism at Cotabambas

VANCOUVER — A long copper-gold intercept suggests that the Ccalla deposit has more mineralization to offer Panoro Minerals (TSXV: PML; US-OTC: POROF), as the company gets set to update the resource estimate at its Cotabambas project in…


The Cauquenes tailings pond at Amerigo Resources' MVC copper-moly tailings operation in Chile. Source: Amerigo Resources

Amerigo extends tailings deal until 2037

The El Teniente mine in the Chilean Andes has been producing copper since 1904, and Codelco believes the underground copper mine — the world’s largest, with more than 2,400 km of subterranean tunnels — has many more decades to…


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