Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Drillers work at the Escondida vein at Extorre's Cerro Moro gold project.

Extorre Gold advances Cerro Moro

VANCOUVER — For years the Cerro Moro gold-silver project in Argentina’s Santa Cruz province played second-fiddle to Exeter Resource’s (XRC-T, XRA-X) sizable Caspiche gold project in Chile, but the project is now advancing quickly as the prime…


Wealth Minerals explores REE project

Wealth Minerals (WML-V) is kicking off an exploration program for rare earth elements (REE) in Argentina at Rodeo de los Molles, an undeveloped REE project that the company says is one of the largest in South America.Wealth Minerals is…


Barrick Gold's Pascua-Lama and Veladero projects straddle the Argentina-Chile border in Chile's Atacama region.

Barrick updates Chilean, Argentine projects

Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) has completed nearly 90% of the detailed engineering and procurement work at its Pascua-Lama gold mine project and says it is on track to start production in the first quarter of 2013.The project, straddling the…


Drillers working at Radius Gold's Holly-Banderas gold-silver project in southeast Guatemala.

Radius targets bonanza silver at Holly-Banderas

Spurred on by recent discoveries in the region, Radius Gold (RDU-V) has dusted off its Holly-Banderas gold-silver project in southeast Guatemala and is embarking on a drilling campaign to further test…


Bear Creek to raise $113M for Santa Ana

On the back of a positive feasibility study for its proposed 63-millionoz. Santa Ana silver mine project in Peru, Bear Creek Mining (BCM-V) is raising $113 million in a bought deal financing.


Peter Holmes, Peregrine's vice-president of exploration, at the Chidliak project.

Peregrine’s exceptional diamond find at Chidliak

One of the new kimberlites Peregrine Diamonds (PGD-T) discovered this summer at the Chidliak project in Canada’s Nunavut territory has coughed up a gem-quality 1.15-carat diamond from initial sampling…



Avala pulls shallow gold in Serbia

Vancouver – Recently restructured Avala Resources (AVZ-T) has released a significant shallow gold hit from its Korkan-Bigar target in eastern Serbia as it works to advance several prospects in the area.




Endeavour arranges $50 million financing and ups bid for Cream

Endeavour Silver (edr-t, exk-a) is topping up its treasury with a bought deal financing worth $50 million. Led by CIBC, a group of underwriters agreed to purchase 8.2 million shares priced at $6.15 apiece, with an overallotment option for up to…



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