Articles by Northern Miner Staff

TSX Venture posts gains Sept. 17-21

VANCOUVER — The S&P TSX Venture Composite Index closed the week at 1,345.72, up 2.05% or 27.62 points. The index continued to grind out gains despite volatile commodity prices and macro-economic uncertainty surrounding the Euro…


Serra Pelada fully funded to production in 2013

Canaccord Genuity analyst Nicholas Campbell has raised his 12-month target price on Colossus Minerals (CSI-T, COLUF-O) by $1 to $10 per share after the junior exploration and development company signed an agreement with Sandstorm Gold (SSL-V,…


US equities dip slightly, Sept. 17-21

 While the S&P 500 remained near highs not seen since December 2007 after the European Central Bank announced its bond-buying plan on Sept. 6 and the U.S. Federal Reserve followed a week later with a third round of quantitative…


McEwen Mining's El Gallo silver-gold mine in Sinaloa state, Mexico. Photo by McEwen Mining

McEwen plots out El Gallo’s next growth stage

A feasibility study for phase two of McEwen Mining’s (MUX-T, MUX-N) expanding El Gallo mine supports production of an additional 5 million oz. silver a year for seven years from the company’s mining complex in Sinaloa, Mexico….


Mining operations at Osisko Mining's Canadian Malartic gold mine in Malartic, Quebec.Photo by Daniel Rompr

Osisko fine-tunes Canadian Malartic

Osisko Mining (OSK-T) continues to improve the performance of its Canadian Malartic gold mine in Malartic, Que., achieving record production levels once again in August.


Lake Shore closes $90M financing

Lake Shore Gold (LSG-T, LSG-X) has completed a $90-million public offering to strengthen its balance sheet, which was previously in “bad shape,” Haywood Securities analyst Kerry Smith says.


Goldcorp's Red Lake gold mine in Red Lake, Ontario. Photo by Goldcorp

Red Lake performance is a priority, Goldcorp says

Goldcorp’s (G-T, GG-N) difficulties in the first half of the year at its flagship Red Lake operations in northwestern Ontario — including adverse ground conditions in the High Grade zone, and lower-than-expected grades in other…


Editorial: MAC pitches transparency, free trade

For Mining Association of Canada (MAC) president and CEO Pierre Gratton, the future of the nation’s mining industry lies in clear-cut regulatory reform, and in cultivating global free-trade arrangements geared towards expediting the flow…




Pretium cuts Brucejack resource

Shareholders of Pretium Resources(PVG-T, PVG-N) have seen the total resources at the company’s Brucejack gold-silver project in northern B.C. whittled down after it published a revised resource estimate for one of the project’s…


Equipment at Great Basin Gold's Hollister gold mine in Nevada's Carlin trend, in more optimistic days in 2010. Photo by The Northern Miner

Great Basin’s great descent

Great Basin Gold (GBG-T, GBG-X) continues to tumble under a delisting review by the Toronto Stock Exchange, following the market response to the company suspending its Burnstone gold mine in South Africa.


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