Editorial: Reflections on working 23 years at the Miner
This is my final editorial for The Northern Miner, as I will soon depart to join gold miner Agnico Eagle Mines as a senior geologist in their Toronto head office,…
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Top-10, Canada-based precious metals developers
Canadian gold and silver juniors are leading project advancement at home and abroad, as precious metals exploration and development enjoy boom times again. The following are the top-10, Canadian-headquartered precious…
Top-10 base metals, uranium explorers and developers in Canada
The Northern Miner has compiled a list of the top-10 base metal and uranium juniors — with no production, and which are not a royalty company — headquartered in Canada,…
US markets rise, July 8-12: Rio Tinto, Eldorado, Vale
Spot gold prices ended at US$1,407.60 per oz., up US$18.95 or 1.4% from the previous week. The yellow metal has spent the past three weeks trading around US$1,400 after making…
TSX Venture drops, July 8-12: Victoria, Firefox, Luckystrike
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 1.99% to 576.03 during the trading week. Victoria Gold led the pack in trading volume. The company saw more than 13 million shares change…
TSX edges higher, July 8-12: Glencore-Katanga, Avesoro, New Gold, Uranium
The S&P/TSX Composite Index ended the trading week up 14.83 points, or 0.09%. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index was up 0.68 point, or 0.87%, to 78.68, while the S&P/TSX Global…
Rockcliff gears up to drill in Snow Lake
At the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention in Toronto in March 2018, Rockcliff Metals (CSE: RCLF) was a struggling junior with a large land package in the…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 142: Gold investment ft David Harquail as World Gold Council chair
In this episode, Franco-Nevada CEO David Harquail takes to the stage at The Northern Miner‘s Canadian Mining Symposium at Canada House in London in May 2019 to speak in his…
Canada’s top-10 royalty and streaming companies
The Northern Miner presents the top-10, Canadian-headquartered royalty and streaming companies by market capitalization, as of early July 2018. 1. FRANCO NEVADA $20.5B market cap Franco-Nevada (TSX: FNV; NYSE: FNV)…
Teck advances QB2 copper project in Chile
If all goes according to plan in northern Chile, Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) and its partners Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo will start commissioning and ramping up their…
RNC expands Beta Hunt with resource update
Infill and exploration drilling in the Western Flanks Zone of the Beta Hunt gold mine in Western Australia has boosted measured and indicated resources fivefold and inferred resources threefold, RNC Minerals (TSX:…
Condor Gold attracts new investment in Nicaragua
Nicaragua Milling is taking a 10.4% stake in Condor Gold (TSX: COG; LON: CNR), which is advancing its La India gold project in Nicaragua. The privately held milling company has…