Articles by Northern Miner Staff









Teck Resources' Red Dog high-grade zinc mine in Alaska. Credit: Teck Resources

Top 10 zinc mines in the world

Global zinc production is poised to rise over the coming years as elevated prices encourage miners to restart idled capacity and begin production at new mines. Using data provided by…


A worker at Fortuna Silver Mines’ San Jose silver-gold mine. Credit: Fortuna Silver Mines.

Top 20 mining companies by capital raised

The extraction of metals and minerals is a capital intensive endeavour. Mining companies require hundreds of millions of dollars, and in many cases, billions, to take a project from exploration…



Atico Mining’s newly upgraded El Roble mine, 145 km southwest of Medellin, is the only producing copper-gold volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit in the country. Credit: Atico Mining.

MINING.com top 10 lowest-cost copper mines

The all-in sustaining costs (AISCs) metric has been widely used in the mining industry since 2013 for its comprehensive and transparent look at an operation’s costs. According to data from Miningintelligence, Lundin…


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