Editorial: The Clintons, Morocco and OCP
The usually low-profile mining industry first popped up in the high-stakes U.S. 2016 presidential election campaign a couple of years ago, with the New York Times’ revelations of former U.S….
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Win free tickets to the Vancouver showing of KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful
The Northern Miner is proud to be Co-Presenter of the Vancouver commercial premiere of the feature-length documentary, KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful, which won the “Best Canadian Feature Documentary” award at…
Brazil-focused Crusader Resources features high-profile board
Investors in North America may not be familiar with Aussie gold junior Crusader Resources, but investors in Australia would have heard of the company’s largest shareholder and non-executive chairman, Stephen…
Odds ‘n’ Sods: Young Johnnie gets bushed
Toward the end of my first summer in the bush in 1958, we had a crew change. I was party chief of a three-man McPhar Geophysics crew locating and detailing…
New execs hope to turn around Luna Gold
The team that put the Karma gold mine into production in Burkina Faso for True Gold before the junior was acquired by Endeavour Mining (TSX: EDV; US-OTC: EDVVF) for $240…
TNM Panel: Argentina a ‘playground for geologists’
Industry experts weighed in on Argentina’s Deseado Massif region, Barrick Gold’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) recent spill at the Veladero gold mine, and the country’s nuclear capabilities during a panel…
Productivity, cost concerns weigh on Chile’s miners
Productivity concerns, high costs and unmet landowner expectations are some of the problems foreign mining companies face in Chile — a country responsible for a third of the world’s copper…
MAG Silver’s low-risk Juanicipio gets wider at depth
George Paspalas has spent the last 30 years building and operating complex open-pit and underground mines in South Africa, Tanzania, Australia, South America and Canada for the likes of Placer…
TNM Panel: Industry leaders are ‘cautiously optimistic’ on Argentina
Diverse industry leaders shared their insights on Argentina’s renewed ties with the mining industry during a panel discussion, moderated by Trish Saywell, The Northern Miner’s senior staff writer, at the…
Nighthawk says Colomac a Kalgoorlie lookalike
Michael Byron, the president and CEO of Nighthawk Gold (TSXV: NHK; US-OTC: MIMZF) didn’t know a heck of a lot about the Indin Lake area of Canada’s Northwest Territories when…
Editorial: Colombians reject peace deal, Uribe re-emerges as a force
On Oct. 2, Colombian voters in a national referendum narrowly defeated a peace agreement negotiated between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, throwing the…
JDS Silver’s Silvertip project nears production in BC
In its first investment in a Canadian mining company, private equity firm Denham Capital is giving JDS Silver US$65 million to complete construction of Silvertip, a silver-lead-zinc mine in northern…