Video: Sean Boyd accepts Mining Person of the Year Award at PMF 2018
Sean Boyd, Agnico Eagle Mines CEO, accepts The Northern Miner’s Mining Person of the Year Award at the 2018 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto. The event was presented by The…
Gold
Nighthawk hits high-grade at Treasure Island in NWT
Drilling at Nighthawk Gold’s (TSX: NHK; US-OTC: MIMZF) Treasure Island project, about 11 km to the north of its Colomac project in the Northwest Territories, has served up significant, shallow…
TSX Venture falls, Oct. 15-19
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 4.1% to 682.16. Shares of Great Bear Resources rose 57¢ to $3.24. The company recently discovered an outcropping ultramafic rock unit with at least…
B2Gold completes expansion study for El Limon mine
In February, B2Gold Corp. (TSX: BTO; NYSE: BTG) announced an initial open-pit inferred resource for the newly discovered El Limon Central zone at its El Limon mine in Nicaragua. This…
Canada’s benchmark index posts small gain, Oct. 15-19
Despite a strong U.S. dollar, the price of gold increased for the third consecutive week, finishing at US$1,226.50 per ounce, up 0.74%, while the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index rose 1.85%…
Newmont’s Merian mine hits 1 million ounce milestone
Two years after commercial production began in October 2016, Newmont Mining’s (NYSE: NEM) Merian mine in Suriname has poured one million ounces of gold. Newmont Suriname — a subsidiary of…
Orbit Garant buys Burkina Faso drilling company
Orbit Garant Drilling (TSX: OGD), one of Canada’s largest drilling companies, took advantage of the last downturn to make a strategic move into Chile, and now hopes to repeat that…
Alio improves resource by 52% at Florida Canyon
Alio Gold (TSX: ALO; NYSE: ALO) has boosted measured and indicated resources at its operating Florida Canyon gold mine in Nevada by 52% over the previous estimate, contained in a 2016…
Amarillo improves economics of Mara Rosa in Brazil
Amarillo Gold (TSXV: AGC; US-OTC: AGCBF) recently tabled an updated prefeasibility study (PFS) for the Posse gold deposit on its 100%-owned Mara Rosa gold project in Goias state, Brazil. The…
Nordic Gold secures funding for Laiva mine in Finland
Pandion Mine Finance is giving Nordic Gold (TSX: NOR) an additional US$7 million in funding so that the junior can put its Laiva gold mine into production and pour first…
Treasury tables first new resource for Goliath since 2015
Treasury Metals (TSX: TML; US-OTC: TSRMF) has updated the resource at its 100% owned Goliath gold project near Dryden, Ontario, for the first time since 2015, boosting underground gold equivalent…
Medgold hunts for gold in Serbia with Fortuna Silver
Medgold Resources (TSXV: MED; US-OTC: MGLDF) is wrapping up a nearly 5,000-metre exploration program at its Tlamino gold-silver-lead-zinc project in southern Serbia that partner Fortuna Silver Mines (TSX: FVI; NYSE:…