Bell Copper chases payoff from Perseverance
Tim Marsh likes to say that it took 150 drill holes to hit the high-grade core of the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold porphyry deposit that made the Mongolian discovery economic….
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Odds ‘n’ Sods: Surviving Soviet-style exploration
After the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Eastern Europe was a rich hunting ground for mineral exploration companies. In the mid-1990s, I was part of a small, enthusiastic team assembled…
TNM launches The Northern Miner Future of Mining Scholarship
The Northern Miner is proud to offer its first academic scholarship as part of the Young Mining Professionals Toronto branch (YMP) scholarship program. The Northern Miner joins fellow partners Barrick…
Odds ‘n’ Sods: Rocks can talk
Rock is remarkable stuff. It lets you know when it’s not happy, and like the best of us, it gets stressed from time to time. When it gets very wound…
Diamond exploration pioneer Chris Jennings sees past market gloom
When the Diavik diamond mine began production in 2004, there were likely more than a few miners that experienced deep pangs of regret, remembering that they could have had a…
Q&A with De Beers’ Mpumi Zikalala
In February, De Beers announced it was consolidating its assets in South Africa and Canada into one entity called De Beers Group Managed Operations. At the same time, Nompumelelo (Mpumi)…
Lucara advances its Clara digital sales platform
Lucara Diamond’s (TSX-LUC) Karowe mine in Botswana continues to turn out enormous diamonds. The latest, in April, weighed in at 1,758 carats. While the diamond was recovered unbroken, the stone…
Scrapbook: Photos from the Canadian Mining Symposium 2019
In May 2019, The Northern Miner hosted the third annual Canadian Mining Symposium at Canada House in London, United Kingdom. The event brings together British and European mining and investment…
Transcript: SolGold’s Nick Mather on receiving TNM’s Mining Person of the Year Award
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – The following is a transcript of SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LON: SOLG) CEO Nicholas Mather’s remarks at The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium at Canada House in…
YMP launches 10 more scholarships totalling $44K, including inaugural Northern Miner scholarship
The Young Mining Professionals (YMP) is bumping up its YMP Scholarship Fund for the 2019-20 academic year for students in mining-related university programs in Canada. The YMP Scholarship Fund is…
The Northern Miner nominated for two national journalism awards
Two stories published by The Northern Miner in 2018 have been nominated for the 2019 National Magazine Awards: B2B. Northern Miner editor-in-chief John Cumming got the nod in the “Best…
Canadian Mining Hall of Fame welcomes five trailblazers
The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame (CMHF) bestowed honours on five industry giants at its thirty-first annual induction ceremony in January at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The 2019 inductees…