Editorial: Political power play over PotashCorp
BHP Billiton’s $40-billion hostile bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan entered a critical period in late Octo…
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
SouthGobi expands footprint in Mongolia with strategic investment
SouthGobi Resources (SGQ-T, 1878-SEHK) hopes to replicate its own success story through a strategic investment…
Creston Moly boosts El Creston resource
Vancouver – Creston Moly (CMS-V) has significantly increased the total molybdenum and copper resource at …
Environmental approval lifts Mega Uranium
A key environmental approval from the once fickle Australian government has given Mega Uranium (MGA-T) a boost…
Hunter Dickinson’s Northcliff options N.B. tungsten-moly play
With an eye on a rising tungsten price, the Hunter Dickinson group has picked up an option on Geodex Minerals’…
Avion Gold is off to a good start in Burkina Faso
Avion Gold (AVR-V, AVGCF-O) has completed an initial resource estimate for the Vindaloo zone of its recently a…
Extorre brings focus to Cerro Moro
Vancouver – For years the gold-silver Cerro Moro project in Argentina’s Santa Cruz province played second-fidd…
Venture continues upward with heavy volumes
A dipping gold price helped lead to a mixed week for the S&P-TSX Venture composite index, but three days o…
TSX holds ground for Oct. 18-22 period
With the Bank of Canada holding rates at 1% the TSX Composite managed to hold on to much of its recent gains f…
U.S. Markets edge upward
Leading up to the G-20 weekend meeting of finance ministers, U.S. stocks ended higher for the third straight w…
Fire River breathes new life into Nixon Fork
SITE VISIT NIXON FORK, ALASKA — There is nothing easy about developing a narrow-veined gold mine in tricky geology, let alone one at a fly-in-only camp in remote Alaska.But bonanza grades, a remarkable amount of existing infrastructure,…
Diamonds North tests Beluga-3’s diamond potential
Diamonds North Resources (DDN-V) has wrapped up a recent drilling campaign on its flagship Amaruk project, in the Kugaaruk area of eastern Nunavut.The program was designed to collect a 25-tonne mini-bulk sample from Beluga-3, a kimberlite…