Editorial: The coming US mining renaissance
While for much of past twenty years there has been a slow withering of the mining industry in the U.S., with the notable exceptions of a few bright spots such…
Volume 104 Number 1 January 8 – 21, 2018
Letter to the editor: A better suggestion for parkland in northern Manitoba
The Manitoba Saskatchewan Prospectors and Developers Association (MSPDA) takes the strong view that while it agrees with Stephen Fletcher’s view that a creating a new national park on Manitoba’s Nickel…
TSX Venture in the black, Dec. 27-29
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index gained 40.42 points to a 850.72-point close, as spot gold prices gained US$28.64 to US$1,302.8 per oz. gold on a weakening U.S. dollar. Comex copper…
TSX posts marginal gains, Dec. 27-29
Canada’s benchmark index rose 0.27% on a shortened trading week to 16,209.10.The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index gained 0.82% to 72.31 while the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index budged slightly, moving from…
US markets slip between Christmas and New Year’s
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 25% and the S&P 500 nearly 20% in 2017. But the shortened trading week between Christmas and New Year’s saw both moving in the…
Site visit: Maple Gold takes fresh look at Douay
AMOS, QUEBEC — Over the last four decades, a series of owners have carved out a resource of nearly three million ounces of gold below the 30 metres of overburden…
Filo sets stage for near-term copper production
VANCOUVER — Filo Mining (TSXV: FIL) is targeting production within five years at its flagship Filo del Sol copper-gold-silver project in the northern Chile-Argentina border region. The company was spun-out of…
Rubicon wraps up 2017 exploration program at Phoenix
Rubicon Minerals (TSX: RMX; US-OTC: RBYCF) drilled 28,500 metres at its Phoenix gold project in Red Lake in 2017. Highlights from the most recent batch of assay results include a…
ICMM’s Butler: Mining an ‘agent of change when it comes to alleviating poverty’
VANCOUVER — On Dec. 6, The Northern Miner sat down for an interview with Tom Butler, CEO of the U.K.-based International Council of Mining and Metals (ICMM), to discuss climate change…
Lithium demand to triple by 2025, CRU expects
Regulations in China that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and fully electric vehicles must make up 8% of all new vehicle production in the Asian juggernaut in 2018, rising to 10%…
Orefinders assembles western Abitibi land package
Orefinders Resources (TSXV: ORX) is scooping up gold properties in Ontario’s Shining Tree district, near Lake Abitibi. The company will acquire three contiguous properties from three different landholders, bringing its…
Group Ten acquires claims in Stillwater complex
VANCOUVER — It would be rare to find a geologist who went through university without studying the Stillwater complex in southern Montana. The complex is a world-class example of layered…