Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Drillers at Crazy Horse Resources' Taysan copper project in the Philippines, 100 km south of Manila. Photo by Crazy Horse Resources

Crazy Horse moves Taysan ahead with prefeasibility study

Philippines-focused Crazy Horse Resources (CZH-V) has outlined a 15-milliontonne- per-year open-pit copper operation at its Taysan project in a prefeasibility study. The mine plan, like the November scoping study before it, splits the project…


Editorial: Stainless steel turns 100

Looking for an excuse to celebrate something in mining? Look no further than the one-hundredth anniversary of the invention of stainless steel — that wonderfully shiny, hard, corrosion-resistant alloy that’s one building block of a…


Commentary: Canada’s rise as an energy superpower

Canada is rapidly becoming recognized as one of the world’s energy superpowers. Canada is the leading foreign supplier of oil to the U.S. — delivering nearly twice as much each year as Saudi Arabia — and is the origin of 90%…


Rio Verde to secure $15M for key projects

Rio Verde Minerals (RVD-T) aims to add $15 million to its coffers to help fund exploration and development at its key potash and phosphate projects in northern Brazil, by selling its shares at a premium.


Aurcana on target with aggressive growth profile

VANCOUVER — Emerging Vancouver-based silver producer Aurcana Corp. (AUN-V) continued to demonstrate steady production growth through the first quarter, as the company posted record profits and announced development is ahead of schedule at…



[Update] Forest fires threaten Kirkland Lake, Timmins

VANCOUVER — Raging forest fires that ignited near the towns of Kirkland Lake and Timmins in north-eastern Ontario have forced residents from their homes, and impacted four regional gold operations, as fire crews and the Ministry of…


McEwen comments on uncertainty in Argentina

When mining entrepreneur Rob McEwen put US Gold and Minera Andes together to create McEwen Mining (MUX-T, MUX-N) he was working on the model that you could take one company that had cash flow and another company that had development…




GoldQuest soars 313% on new discovery

GoldQuest Mining (GQC-V) shares spiked after revealing a monstrous gold intercept from its 15-hole program at the Las Tres Palmas project in the Dominican Republic.


Quaterra completes MacArthur PEA

Quattera Resources (QTA-V) took a step closer this week to near-term production at its MacArthur project, a fully-stripped porphyry copper oxide property in the historic Yerington copper district of Nevada.


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