US Snapshot: Six juniors with active programs
With prices for gold, silver, and other metals and minerals on the upswing, the mining and exploration scene is heating up again in the U.S., particularly in traditional mining destinations…
Volume 104 Number 4 February 19 – March 4, 2018
Editorial: New environmental assessment rules proposed for Canada
On Feb. 8 Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna introduced the 341-page Bill C-69, which seeks to comprehensively alter the current federal legislation guiding the environmental review and…
TSX Venture Exchange inches higher, Feb. 5-9
After falling nearly 90 points in the first week of February, the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index has levelled off, rising 0.2% to finish at 813.39. Shares of Gold Reserve rose…
US markets fall, Feb. 5-9
Gold closed at US$1,315.7 per oz., down 1.2% over the previous week. U.S. markets suffered as the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index fell 6.6% to 78.35, and the Dow Jones…
Premier plans ‘big year’ in Nevada
Having lopped off more than half of its debt last year and with over $100 million in the bank, Premier Gold Mines (TSX: PG) is primed and ready for a…
Liberty Gold tables maiden resource for Goldstrike
Liberty Gold (TSX: LGD) has completed the first resource estimate on its flagship, wholly owned Goldstrike oxide gold project in southwestern Utah. The project lies near the Nevada border in…
Klondex sees grades drop at Fire Creek gold mine
VANCOUVER — Klondex Mines (TSX: KDX; NYSE-AM: KLDX) is drilling its Fire Creek underground gold-silver mine in northern Nevada, but grades and ounces in the wider deposit have fallen year-on-year. Klondex…
Facts ‘n’ Figures: Gold mine production hit all-time high in 2017, WGC finds
The following is an excerpt from the World Gold Council’s new 18-page report, Gold Demand Trends Full Year 2017. View the entire report and more for free at www.gold.org. Gold…
PMF panel discusses innovation in mine development
In this eighth and final installment of reports from the Progressive Mine Forum hosted by The Northern Miner in Toronto in October, we present an edited transcript of a roundtable…
Roundup 2018: AME’s Edie Thome on BC’s mineral politics
VANCOUVER — The Association for Mineral Exploration’s (AME) Roundup conference in Vancouver serves as a bellwether for the mining industry as the first major technical event of the new year. The…
New DRC mining code upsets miners
A new mining code in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that would raise royalties on metal production and eliminate a stability clause enshrined in the previous 2002 charter that…
Catherine Raw, Stephen de Jong named ‘Young Mining Professionals of the Year’
The Young Mining Professionals (YMP) — a non-profit group with chapters in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and London, U.K. — has given its Mining Professional of the Year awards for 2017…