Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A drill site in the Lynx zone - with the Phoenix zone in the background - at Atacama Pacific Gold's Cerro Maricunga gold project in Chile. Credit: Atacama Pacific Gold.

Atacama is hopeful at Cerro Maricunga

Atacama Pacific Gold (ATM-V) has bright prospects for its Cerro Maricunga gold project in Chile following the release of a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA), which was welcomed by analysts. The project is in Region III, 140 km by…


Trouble at Pueblo Viejo?

Just two weeks after the Pueblo Viejo gold mine in the Dominican Republic entered commercial production in mid-January, joint-venture partners Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) and Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) face a potential squeezeplay from the government.


Constantine's  Palmer project in Alaska. Source: Constantine Metals

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…


A drill rig at Klondex's Fire Creek property in Nevada. Credit: Klondex Mines.

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…





Equipment at the Back Forty project in Michigan. Source: Aquila Resources

Back Forty gains grade but HudBay keeps project suspended

VANCOUVER – A new resource estimate for the Back Forty project in Michigan has boosted the deposit’s metal grades, but despite the improvement there is no work underway at the site because project operator HudBay Minerals (HBM-T)…



An employee walks through Chesapeake's Metates project in Mexico. Source: Chesapeake Gold

Costs creep up at Chesapeake’s Metates project

Chesapeake Gold (CKG-V) has completed a prefeasibility study (PFS) on its Metates gold-silver project in Mexico’s Durango state, showing it could annually produce 954,000 gold-equivalent oz. and 143 million lbs. zinc for 25 years.



An aerial view of the processing plant at Pueblo Viejo. Source: Goldcorp Inc.

Trouble at Pueblo Viejo?

Just two weeks after the Pueblo Viejo mine in the Dominican Republic entered commercial production in mid-January, joint-venture partners Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) and Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) face a potential backlash from the government.


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