Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Lumina hits long intersects at Taca Taca

The Taca Taca deposit in northwestern Argentina, 90 km east of Escondida, the world’s largest copper mine, has yielded the longest mineralized intercept to date—813 metres grading 0.60% copper equivalent including 134 metres of…


Corvus shares surge 50% on Nevada gold

Vancouver — Corvus Gold (KOR-T) has started the year with a bang. Positive assay results from its North Bullfrog gold-silver project outside of Beatty, Nev., combined with a generally sunny outlook for gold juniors helped push the…


MAX hopes to find ‘silver lining’ in Majuba Hill

Vancouver — MAX Resource (MXR-V) continues to search for a copper-silver porphyry system at its Majuba Hill property in Pershing County, Nevada. Assays were released in early February from a second quarter 2011 drill campaign.



TSX falls as fears over Greece resurface

Fears over whether Greece would be able to meet austerity requirements set by the European Union meant the risk-free trade was back on. That led investors to pile into U.S.treasuries sending both the Canadian dollar and the TSX Composite Index…


U.S. equities slip, Feb. 6-10

Despite some signs of economic recovery in theUnited States, broader fears thatGreece’s parliament would not approve the stricter financial reforms necessary for the country to receive more bailout funds dampenedU.S.equities in the Dec….






Drill rigs at Strathmore Minerals' Gas Hills uranium project in Wyoming. Photo by Strathmore Minerals

The shine is back on uranium stocks

Korea Electric Power Corporation is taking a 13.9% stake in Strathmore Minerals (STM-T) in a deal that will also give the Korean energy giant off-take rights to a portion of the uranium junior’s future production.


A drill rig at Tournigan Energy's Kuriskova uranium project in central Slovakia, 10 km northwest of the city of Kosice. Photo by Tournigan Energy

Kuriskova uranium project low-cost, Tournigan says

Slovakia has four nuclear reactors that generate half the nation’s electricity needs, and two more reactors are planned or under construction. That makes Tournigan Energy’s (TVC-V) flagship Kuriskova uranium deposit in the country an attractive…


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