Fireside chat with Kirkland Lake Gold’s Tony Makuch
The Northern Miner hosted its third annual Progressive Mine Forum in October. During the event, Tony Makuch, president and CEO of Kirkland Lake Gold (TSX: KL; NYSE: KL), sat down…
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Video: The Stratalis Group’s George Hemingway feature presentation at PMF 2019
George Hemingway, The Stratalis Group partner and head of innovation practice, gives the Feature Presentation at the 2019 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto. Introduction by The Northern Miner publisher Anthony…
Geologist Violet Smith pioneers family-run consultancy in Guyana
Violet Smith grew up in the Cuyuni–Mazaruni region of Guyana, eventually settling in Bartica, a small commercial centre about 80 km inland from the Atlantic Ocean. The town — at…
Four industry pioneers named to Canadian Mining Hall of Fame
In 2020, the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame will welcome four new inductees: P. Jerry Asp, Alex G. Balogh, Hans T.F. Lundberg and Eberhard (Ebe) Scherkus. The thirty-second annual induction…
Osisko launches incubator, bids for Barkerville
Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX: OR; NYSE: OR) has created a project development platform called North Spirit Discovery Group, and it hopes the resource development and finance company’s first asset will…
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….
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…