Celebrating 20 years of diamonds at BHP Billiton
The story of EKATI Diamond Mine began in 1981, when geologist Charles Fipke found diamond indicator minerals near Blackwater Lake on the east side of the Mackenzie River in the…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
The Point Lake ‘epiphany’: How a single discovery spawned an entire industry
On Nov. 6, 1991, the latest edition of The Northern Miner was on its way to bed when our fax machine spit out one page of seemingly unremarkable news: an…
Lucara set for 2012 startup at AK6
Construction activities at Lucara Diamond’s (LUC-T) AK6 diamond mine in Botswana continue largely on track and on budget despite a two-month delay this summer. South African steelworkers striking in July…
Centerra flaunts a strong quarter
Centerra Gold (cg-t) posted solid third-quarter results, with profits soaring nearly 400%.
Anglo American to buy Oppenheimer’s stake in De Beers
Anglo American’s (AAUK-Q, AAL-L) agreement to pay $5.1 billion in cash for the Oppenheimer family’s 40% stake in De Beers will have a profound impact on the diamond industry, executives and analysts say.
New Gold on track to 1 million oz. production
New Gold’s (NDG-T) third quarter results are in and show the company to be executing on its plan to shape itself into the next significant mid-tier gold producer.
Victoria looking to become Yukon’s next gold producer
Mayo, Yukon – With all the excitement about new discoveries in the Yukon, it’s easy to forget about the established deposits that could become mines in the near term.
Letter to the editor: New Prosperity plan is environmentally sound: Taseko CEO
I read the editorial submission of Chief Marilyn Baptiste, of the Xeni Gwet’in band of the Tsilhqot’in National Government (TNG), on The Northern Miner’s website on Nov. 2. It purported to list eight reasons why Taseko Mines’s resubmitted…
Pretium’s Robert Quartermain a goldbug all along
Vancouver – “Many people often think of me as a silver-focused individual,” keynote speaker Robert Quartermain told a crowd of around 150 mining executives in his opening remarks at a recent Association for Mineral Exploration B.C. (AME BC)…
Northern Tiger hunting for high-grade gold in SE Yukon
Whitehorse, Yukon – It’s the stuff of prospectors’ dreams. Climb up a hillside in a little-explored area and stumble upon enough visible gold to justify all those years of trudging around alone in the bush.
High grades for Eagle Hill in first resource estimate
Eagle Hill Exploration’s (EAG-V) has its first resource estimate in for its Windfall Lake project in Quebec’s Abitibi region and the grades found were better than what it was expecting.
Torex Gold continues to rise
Torex Gold (TXG-T) has seen heavy trading and a boost in share price after finding more high-grade gold mineralization while defining and expanding its El Limon deposit in Mexico.