Articles by Northern Miner Staff



Minefinders' Dolores open-pit gold-silver mine in northern Mexico. Photo by Minefinders

Pan American looks to Minefinders

Driving down cash costs, generating immediate cash flows and building itself into the world’s largest primary silver producer sound like good enough reasons for Pan American Silver (PAA-T, PAAS-Q) to table a friendly takeover bid for fellow…




Kinross tumbles on project delays

Kinross Gold (K-T, KGC-N) fell more than 20% after it said it is reviewing its three major advanced gold projects to improve economics, likely causing months of delay and a goodwill write down of the Tasiast gold project in Mauritania.


US Gold's El Gallo gold project in Sinaloa state, Mexico. Photo by US Gold

Merger of US Gold, Minera Andes goes ahead

When Rob McEwen first proposed the combination of US Gold (UXG-T, UXG-N) and Minera Andes (MAI-T, MNEAF-O) in June 2011, the chairman, chief executive and largest shareholder of both companies thought the deal easily could be completed by early…





A bucket-wheel extractor at BHP Billiton's Spence copper mine in Chile. Photo by BHP Billiton

BHP boosts copper resources at Spence

Resources at BHP Billiton’s (BHP-N) Spence copper mine in northern Chile has grown by nearly 700%, following a four-year, US$30-million brownfield exploration program.



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