Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Osisko sheds light on mystery Mexican project

VANCOUVER — Last October, Osisko Mining (TSX: OSK) made a rather odd announcement. The Montreal-based, Eastern Canada-focused gold miner reported it had staked just shy of 10,000 sq. km in Mexico, but wouldn’t be telling anyone the…




A closeup view of the equipment at Quest Rare Minerals' Pilot plant in Mississauga, Ont. (2013). Photo: Salma Tarikh

Quest to sell 100% of Strange Lake’s zirconia to TAM

Quest Rare Minerals (TSX: QRM; AMEX: QRM) received a much-needed boost after reporting that it intends to sell 100% of the anticipated annual zirconia production from its Strange Lake rare earth deposit in northern Quebec to New York-based…


The exploration camp on the Goose Lake property, part of Sabina's Back River Project in Nunavut. Source: Sabina Gold & Silver

Sabina finds high-grade gold at George

Sabina Gold & Silver (SBB-T) has pulled some encouraging grades from the George deposit at its Back River gold-silver project in Nunavut ahead of a prefeasibility study (PFS) due later this year.




The camp at Avannaa Resources' Washington Land lead-zinc project in northern Greenland. Source: Avannaa Resources

Greenland’s timeless allure

Avannaa Resources is a privately held exploration company founded by three geologists from Britain and Denmark who pooled their interest and experience in Greenland. It may be an unfamiliar name to many, but over the last nine months, the…


U.S. markets, June 24-28

U.S. markets rebounded from fears in the previous period that the Fed would taper off quantitative easing. The markets stabilized after the Fed said that QE would not slow down any time soon. This brought the S&P 500 Index up 18 points to…


Core testing at Royal Nickel's Dumont project in Quebec. Source: Royal Nickel

Royal Nickel’s Dumont reaches feasibility

Royal Nickel (RNX-T) has something to cheer about with a positive feasibility study tabled on its large-scale Dumont nickel-sulphide project in Quebec’s Abitibi region, 25 km west of the city of Amos and 60 km northeast from the…


Inside the La Cruzada tunnel at Seafield Resources' Miraflores gold-silver deposit, 100 km south of Medellin, Colombia. Source: Seafield Resources

Seafield envisions a smaller mine at Miraflores

VANCOUVER — Seafield Resources (SFF-V) has an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) in hand for its multi-million ounce Miraflores gold-silver deposit situated 100 km south of Medellin, Colombia, and the Toronto-based junior has…



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