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Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Quest fires up mini-pilot plant for Strange Lake
Quest Rare Minerals (QRM-T, QRM-X), which owns the Strange Lake rare earth deposit in northern Quebec, recently held a tour of its mini-pilot plant at Process Research Ortech in Mississauga, Ont., where it’s testing the…
Getting it right at Comstock
Struggling with broken balance sheets and non-progressive management philosophies is part of his DNA, Corrado DeGasperis says.
Back Forty gains grade but work still suspended
VANCOUVER — A new resource estimate for the Back Forty poly-metallic project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has boosted the deposit’s metal grades. But despite the improvement, no work is underway at the site because project…
Royalty sale a windfall for Premier Gold
It’s not every day that an exploration-and-development company can turn a US$35-million profit in just 14 months with what appears to be little effort.
Northcliff goes north on strong economics at Sisson
Northcliff Resources (NCF-T) has shone a spotlight on its Sisson tungsten-molybdenum project in New Brunswick, with a feasibility study confirming it could economically mine the deposit for 27 years.
Altan on the trail for Nevada’s next gold discovery
CARSON CITY, NEVADA — Driving along a broad stretch of freeway on the outskirts of Reno, it is obvious that Altan Nevada’s (ANE-V) director of exploration Kelly Cluer calls Nevada home. He spent the first 10 years of his career here…
Atna poised to capitalize on US gold portfolio
INYO COUNTY, CALIF. — If all goes according to plan, 2013 could be a banner year for junior gold producer Atna Resources (ATN-T) and its portfolio of advanced-stage gold assets in the southwestern U.S. With one gold mine cranking out cash…
Constantine finds perfect partner for Palmer
VANCOUVER — For the last few years, the Palmer project in Alaska almost had it all: a high-grade polymetallic deposit with thick, continuous zones that could be mined using short lateral drifts to deposit ore beside a highway running to a…
Things get heavy for Namibia Rare Earths
Between 2005 and 2008, Namibia Rare Earths (NRE-T, NMREF-O) was focused on exploring for gold and copper in northwestern Namibia, about 450 km northwest of the capital Windhoek.
Shaking it up at Klondex
Last June Klondex Mines (KDX-T) replaced its board with a new slate of directors and in September hired Paul Huet as its chief executive, a mine engineer and expert in narrow vein gold mining best known for building and permitting Great Basin…
Good gold recoveries might improve economics for Corvus at North Bullfrog
VANCOUVER — Metallurgical test work is returning good results for Corvus Gold (KOR-T), as the company pushes towards production at its North Bullfrog gold project in Nevada.