Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Drilling the Taricori gold zone at Dorato Resources' Cordillera Del Condor gold project in northwest Peru.

Golden intercepts keep Dorato climbing (April 12, 2010)

VANCOUVER — The drills will restart at Dorato Resources’ (DRI-V) Cordillera Del Condor project in northwest Peru and the first-ever drill program in the region continues to return promising results.Dorato is earning a 100% interest in an…



The crusher at Alamos Gold's Mulatos gold mine in Sonora State, Mexico.

Alamos Gold awash in record profits

Alamos Gold’s (AGI-T) fourth-quarter and year-end results primarily show higher gold sales and lower operating costs with positive cash flows, which contributed to the company’s decision to introduce a semi-annual dividend.With its producing…


Focus hits and misses at Nueva California

VANCOUVER — The first set of results from Focus Ventures’ (FCV-V) second round of drilling at the Nueva California gold-silver project in northern Peru returned a few goods hits as well as some misses. And even though the news depressed the…


Sulliden’s drills expand Shahuindo’s gold (April 12, 2010)

VANCOUVER–Long gold intercepts from Sulliden Gold’s (SUE-T) Shahuindo project in Peru could fill an undrilled gap between the project’s two main deposits with mineralization.On the heels of a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA),…


Malaga boosts tungsten reserves in Peru (April 12, 2010)

Malaga (MLG-T) has boosted its tungsten reserves and resources at the Pasto Bueno mine in northern Peru by 72% and 280%, respectively.Pasto Bueno has 169,427 tonnes of proven and probable reserves with an average tungsten oxide grade of…




Editorial: Grim time for US coal miners

As we go to press, the worst mining disaster in the U.S. or Canada in more than two decades has just occurred at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch underground metallurgical coal mine in Montcoal, W. Va…


Chinese demand drives boron industry: Roskill

In the thirteenth century Marco Polo brought borax glazes, a compound of boron from his travels in Asia back with him to Italy. Eight hundred years later, demand continues to seesaw between the East a…



Gammon lawsuit to proceed

An Ontario court has certified an $80-million class-action lawsuit launched against Gammon Gold (GAM-T, GRS-N) and three financial institutions, but has ruled out certain parties’ from the class actio…


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