Articles by Northern Miner Staff

At Prophecy Platinum's Wellgreen nickel-copper-PGM project in the Yukon, from left: field geologist Rex Camit; senior geologist Danniel Oosterman; and project geologist Rory Calhoun. Photo by Matthew Allan

Prophecy Platinum starts winter drill program at Wellgreen

Fifteen kilometres off the paved Alaska Highway in southwestern Yukon, the Wellgreen nickel-copper-platinum group metal (PGM) project sits largely as it has since 1973, when Hudson-Yukon Mining abandoned underground mining there after one year…


A loader filling a dump truck at Goldcorp's Penasquito polymetallic mine in Mexico. Photo by Goldcorp

Goldcorp falls short of production targets, again

Before Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) began commercial production at its expanded Red Lake gold mine on Jan. 1, 2001, the company was a 100,000- oz.-a-year mid-tier gold producer struggling to become a senior gold miner. But by the end of the year, Red…


Tigray on the hunt for another Bisha

Recent drilling at Tigray Resources’ (TIG-V) flagship Harvest copper-gold-silver project in northern Ethiopia has returned several high-grade intercepts, including 21 metres grading 5.7% copper, 1.5 grams gold per tonne, 18 grams silver per…


The camp at Golden Predator's Brewery Creek gold project in the Yukon. Photo by Ian Bickis

Golden Predator makes gains in the Yukon

Golden Predator (GPD-T) started strong in 2012 with more drill results from the Sleeman zone at its flagship Brewery Creek deposit and a new gold discovery at Cache Creek. Golden Predator is the largest active-exploration property holder in the…


The Bull Hill zone at Rare Element Resources' Bear Lodge rare earth elements project in Wyoming. Photo by Rare Element Resources

More REEs at Bear Lodge for Rare Element

In an updated resource estimate that includes less than half of the new assay results from holes drilled in 2011, Rare Element Resources (RES-T) has boosted the measured and indicated resources of its Bear Lodge rare earths project in Wyoming…


Soltoro CEO Andrew Thomson (far left) gives a presentation at the El Rayo silver-gold project in Jalisco State, Mexico. Photo by Salma Tarikh

Soltoro charges ahead in sunny Jalisco

Soltoro (SOL-V) may soon be garnering more well-deserved attention for its growing primary silver resource at the El Rayo silver-gold project here in Mexico’s Jalisco State.


The camp at Smash Minerals' Whiskey gold project in the Yukon. Photo by Smash Minerals

Smash Minerals, Prosperity Goldfields to merge

When Adrian Fleming, co-founder of the wildly successful Underworld Resources, listened to a presentation at his Vancouver office in November last year from Prosperity Goldfields’ (PPG-V) chief geologist Quinton Hennigh about a prospect in…





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Bear Creek Mining – Lisa May appointed director of investor relations.


Correction

In “PDAC 2012 Awards” (TNM, Jan. 16-22, 2012, Page B14) the date of the awards evening should have read March 5, 2012.


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