Articles by Northern Miner Staff

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.


Lake Shore Gold sells Mexican assets

Lake Shore Gold (LSG-T, LSG-N) is selling all of its Mexican properties to Revolution Resources (RV-T) in order to keep its management team and finances focused on its Canadian assets.



Editorial: A sober year ahead

One of the more pleasant modern traditions of the Canadian mineral exploration sector is kicking off the year with Cambridge House International’s large Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, now held each mid-January at the new…


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