Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Processing facilities at Atna Resources' Briggs gold mine in Inyo County, California. Source: Photo by Matthew Keevil.

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…


Garfield MacVeigh (left), president of Constantine Metal Resources, shakes hands with Nobuo Yamazaki, president of Dowa Metals & Mining, after reaching a joint-venture agreement for the Palmer VMS project in Alaska. Source: Constantine Metal Resources

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…


Drillers at Namibia Rare Earths' Lofdal property, 450 km northwest of Windhoek, Namibia. Source: Namibia Rare Earths

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.


Editorial: No dilly-dally in Mali

Early February saw swift development in Mali’s civil war, with French elite troops and air power, aided by West African foot soldiers and American drones, retaking most of the northern half of the country through open combat. Players in…


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…



The historic pit at Meadow Bay Gold's Atlanta gold project in Lincoln County, Nevada. Source: Meadow Bay Gold

Meadow Bay doubles Atlanta gold resource

VANCOUVER — Shareholders of Meadow Bay Gold (MAY-T) enjoyed a share price jump after the Vancouver-based explorer doubled resources at its wholly owned Atlanta gold-silver project in Lincoln County, Nev.




Retired miner Leo Cameron performs the "Five-Point Safety System Song" at the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. Source: Canadian Mining Hall of Fame

Sudbury songbirds snag top prizes

Some might say working in the mining industry is nothing to sing about, but the results of the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame’s (CMHF) mining song contest prove that shovels, shafts and mine safety measures can inspire musical…


Market news: Toronto Stock Exchange

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


Market news: TSX Venture Exchange

February did not begin well for the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index: the board lost ground every day to end the week down 22.85 points at 1,205.81. Trading volumes for the week averaged 76.6 million, boosted by a well-above-average 94…


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