Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Playfair’s tungsten resource grows at Grey River

Playfair Mining (PLY-V) has increased its inferred resource at Grey River in Newfoundland by 16% to 1.2 million tonnes grading 0.73% tungsten trioxide for 18.8 million pounds of tungsten trioxide or 853,000 metric tonne units (MTUs), the…




China sets first tranche of 2012 REE export quotas

China has determined that its first tranche of export quotas for rare earth elements in 2012 will be 10,546 tonnes, down 27% from its first tranche of export quotas in 2011, but the China Daily reported that officials at the Ministry of…




An elevated view of pits at La Mancha Resources' Hassai gold mine in Sudan. Photo by La Mancha Resources

La Mancha planning second life for Hassai

For the past six years, Martin Amyot has been making an annual trek to Vancouver to try to convince investors that not only has Sudan had a gold mine in continuous operation since 1991, but also that the mine will be in operation for years to…


Former Amarillo Gold CEO Buddy Doyle (right) prospecting with general manager Luis Carlos da Silva at the Mara Rosa gold project which hosts the Posse deposit in Goias State, Brazil. Photo by Amarillo Gold

Amarillo posts prefeasibility study on Posse

In the Brazilian state of Goias, Amarillo Gold’s (AGC-V) Posse deposit – previously mined by Western Mining during the nineties – is surrounded by a number of large, copper-gold-nickel laterite projects.


Extorre delivers gold and silver in Santa Cruz province

Infill drilling at Extorre Gold Mines’ (XG-T, XG-X) Cerro Moro project in Argentina’s Santa Cruz province has captured the attention of investors, with high-grade intercepts carrying 11 metres of 36.3 grams gold per tonne and 4,412 grams…




Afghanistan gov’t pushes for mineral development

As Western powers prepare to fully withdraw their troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, Wahidullah Shahrani, Afganistan’s minister of mines, is preparing for a very different kind of deployment. 


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