Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The processing plant at Monument Mining's Selinsing gold mine in Malaysia. Photo by The Northern Miner

Juniors scramble for mainland Southeast Asia’s riches

The mainland of Southeast Asia may not hold much buzz for most Canadian explorers — with island nations in the region getting far more attention — but there are a few intrepid companies finding success in this oft-overlooked part of…


Darryl Sittler scored 1,121 points in 1,096 career NHL games over 16 seasons in the NHL.

From jocks to rocks

Paul Reinhart was drafted twelfth overall by the Atlanta Flames in the 1979 NHL entry draft and went on to play 648 games in his professional hockey career, notching 133 goals and adding 426 assists for 559 points, making him one of the…


Drillers probe Kilo Goldmines' Adumbi gold deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Orientale Province. Photo by Kilo Goldmines

Kilo juggles projects in the DRC, Afghanistan

In late January Kilo Goldmines (KGL-V) announced that its iron ore joint-venture project with Rio Tinto (RIO-N) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the potential to host direct shipping ore. In the same announcement the junior…


Drillers at Talon Metals' Trairao iron ore project in Para State, Brazil. Photo by Talon Metals

Talon sizes up iron ore at Trairao in Brazil

Talon Metals (TLO-T) has released a slew of drill results from its extensive 2011 exploration program, showing iron content in weathered and fresh rock at its Trairao project in Brazil.


Senior geologist Al Workman and trainee geologist Waluyo Hadi on an epithermal gold project in Central Java, Indonesia in 1997. Photo by Watts, Griffis and McOuat

WGM: Around the world in 50 years

To survive half a century as an independent firm, Watts, Griffis and McOuat (WGM) has had to be the James Bond of the consulting world, willing to embrace extremes and extricate itself from some dicey situations: bush planes sinking under the…


A drill set up at Coro Mining's Berta copper project, 20 km west of the village of Inca de Oro in Chile's Region III. Photo by Coro Mining

Coro options more copper ground in Chile

Coro Mining (COP-T) has signed an option agreement with a local Chilean company to acquire El Desesperado — a 7-sq.-km property hosting porphyry copper-style mineralization 16 km southwest of Codelco’s Chuquicamata copper mine in…



First Uranium to sell South African assets

First Uranium (FIU-T) said it would be selling its chief assets – the Mine Waste Solutions tailings recovery project and the Ezulwini gold-uranium mine, both in South Africa – for US$405 million as the underperforming junior…



Cameco to take majority of Millennium project

After being trumped last year in a bidding war with Rio Tinto (RIO-N, RIO-L) for Hathor Exploration and its juicy Roughrider deposit, Cameco Corp. (CCO-T, CCJ-N) is back on the acquisition trail, announcing before markets opened on…




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