ATAC board rebuffs Victoria Gold takeover bid
The Toronto-quoted equity of explorer ATAC Resources (TSXV: ATC) jumped about 38.5% on Monday following the weekend announcement by Victoria Gold (TSX: VGCX) of a takeover bid at an 85%…
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Great Bear resource ‘proves our thesis,’ Kinross Gold says
Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) says the first mineral resource for its billion-dollar Great Bear project in northwest Ontario shows potential to be a world class asset. The open-pit…
Karora grows gold resources at Beta Hunt mine in Australia
Karora Resources (TSX: KRR; US-OTC: KRRGF) has announced a significant increase in gold resources at its flagship Beta Hunt mine in Australia. The updated measured and indicated resource totals 1.4…
TNM Drill Down: Red 5’s King of the Hills drilling tops Feb. 3-10 gold assays
Our TNM Drill Down features highlights of the top gold assays of the past week. Drill holes are ranked by gold grade x width, as identified by our sister company Mining…
US stocks close lower during Feb. 6-10 trading week
During the Feb. 6-10 trading week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 56.7 points or 0.17% to 33,869.3 and the S&P 500 fell 46 points or 1% to 4,090.5. Among…
Vulcan Energy to mine 60% more German lithium than planned
Vulcan is now targeting 24,000 tonnes of lithium a year from its brine resource in Germany — 60% higher than its previous goal of 15,000 tonnes.
B2Gold to buy Sabina Gold & Silver for $1.1B
Canada’s B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE: BTG) is buying fellow precious metals miner Sabina Gold & Silver (TSX: SBB; US-OTC: SGSVF) in an all-stock deal worth $1.1 billion (US$824 million). The…
Cyber threats on the rise for resource industries
Mining companies continue to embrace digital technology to improve productivity and safety, and to make the most of insights made possible by big data and increasingly connected equipment and operations….
Video: BHP Xplor VP Sonia Scarselli on the accelerator’s first cohort
The Northern Miner recently sat down with BHP Xplor’s VP Sonia Scarselli to discuss the recent announcement of the accelerator program’s first cohort of companies. The seven companies selected will…
OBITUARY: Geophysics pioneer and PGW founder Norman Reed Paterson
The geophysical community lost a giant on Dec. 22, 2022, when Norm Paterson passed away, a month short of his 97th birthday. Paterson’s remarkable career spanned a range of techniques…
Exclusive video: Investor darling Snowline Gold plans for more discoveries in the Yukon
Snowline Gold’s CEO Scott Berdahl discusses the company’s near-surface Valley gold discovery in the Yukon, which has returned unusually high grades compared to similar bulk-tonnage deposits. Berdahl spoke with Northern Miner staff…
Nighthawk Gold expands Colomac resource estimate in NWT by a third
Nighthawk Gold (TSX: NHK; US-OTC: MIMZF) increased its open-pit indicated and inferred mineral resources at its Colomac project in the Northwest Territories by more than a third while also improving…