After waiting more than 30 years, Southern Silver Exploration’s (SSV-V) man in Durango is finally getting a crack at the Cerro Las Minitas silver property.Adrian Robles, Southern Silver’s senior exploration manager in Mexico, first…
Extorre Gold Mines (XG-T, XG-X) is looking to build its Cerro Moro gold-silver project in Argentina’s Santa Cruz province in two stages and halve its start-up costs, but it could see less metal production during the…
Denver-based molybdenum miner Thompson Creek Metals (TCM-T, TC-N) is bulling through a major expansion despite falling moly prices, temperamental equity markets and rising costs in a bid to diversify its commodity basket and provide long-term…
The Northern Miner’s senior sales representative Brian Warriner was honoured with a Life Member appointment from the Canadian Diamond Drilling Association at its annual general meeting in Quebec City in May. It was presented to Warriner…
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Commerce Resources (CCE-V) has outlined the financial case for its remote Ashram rare earth element (REE) project in a preliminary economic assessment (PEA).The company plans to extract 4,000 tonnes per day from an open pit at its northern…
The number of mine development projects where capital costs are spiralling upwards from their study numbers has increased more than any time I can recall in my 30-plus years of worldwide experience in the development-side of the industry. This…
The latest drill hole from the Yellow Jacket target at Corvus Gold’s (KOR-T) North Bullfrog gold-silver project in southern Nevada has returned more evidence of a high-grade feeder zone.The standout interval in hole 12-138 was 5 metres…
EXCHANGE RATES CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date June 4 June 1 May 31 May 30 May 29 US$ in C 1.0418 1.0380 1.0349 1.0286 1.0253 …
To every enviro protest, there is a Four Seasons. Anti-mining street activism took a noxious turn in downtown Vancouver on May 24, as a luncheon — held at the Four Seasons hotel by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and…
An article in The Northern Miner (“Tin and silver: The new electric metals,” April 30–May 6/12) discussed the European Union’s ban on the use of lead in products sold in Europe and the resulting use of tin, silver and…
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