Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Venture slides to start February

VANCOUVER – February did not start off well for the S&P TSX Venture Composite Index: the board lost ground every day from Feb. 4th to 8th to end the week down 22.85 points at 1,205.81. Trading volumes for the week averaged 76.6 million,…


TSX rises on global optimism

The TSX Composite Index was up 118 points to 12,801.23 points for the February 4-8 period riding improving global investor sentiment. Investor confidence was bolstered by an unexpected drop in the U.S. trade deficit and data out of China that…


Inside Quest's mini-pilot plant at Ortech.

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 solvent…



Rocks showing carbonatite intrusion with abundant fluorite from Namibia Rare Earths' Lofdal project. Source: Namibia Rare Earths

Namibia Rare Earths finds more heavies

Between 2005 and 2008 Namibia Rare Earths (NRE-T, NMREF-O) was focused on exploring for gold and copper mineralization in northwestern Namibia, about 450 kilometres northwest of the capital city of Windhoek.



Getting it right at Comstock

Struggling with broken balance sheets and non-progressive management philosophies is part of his DNA, Corrado DeGasperis says.






Inside the mill at Capstone Mining's Minto copper mine, 240 km north of Whitehorse, Yukon. Source: Capstone Mining

Yukon exploration slow but steady in 2012

VANCOUVER — Depressed equity markets, a cool spring that kept snow on the ground and floods in June that washed out major roads meant 2012 was much quieter in the Yukon than it was in 2011.


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