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…
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…
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 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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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