Ascendant explores El Mochito’s upside
VANCOUVER — Ascendant Resources (TSX: ASND) has delivered fresh exploration drill results at its El Mochito zinc-lead-silver mine, 88 km southwest of San Pedro Sula in northwest Honduras. The 32,000-metre…
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Puma beats staking rush in NB
Puma Exploration (TSXV: PUM) has been active in northern New Brunswick’s Bathurst mining camp for more than a decade, but stepped up its involvement last year with agreements to acquire…
Sabina back on track at Back River after NIRB approval
VANCOUVER — Sabina Gold & Silver (TSX: SBB; US-OTC: SGSVF) hopes to start construction at its multimillion-ounce Back River gold project in mid-2018 after having received a positive recommendation from…
Roxgold grows Bagassi South resource in Burkina Faso
Roxgold (TSX: ROXG; US-OTC: ROGFF) has improved grades by 37% and the resource size by 14% at its Bagassi South satellite gold deposit in Burkina Faso. Bagassi South is 1.8…
Top 10 Canadian-based gold developers
Gold exploration and development is enjoying a boom again, and Canadian juniors are leading project advancement at home and abroad. The following are the top-10, Canadian-headquartered gold companies that are…
Sandstorm CEO sets the record straight on Mariana deal
VANCOUVER — Sandstorm Gold (TSX: SSL; NYSE-MKT: SAND) made headlines in April when it bid US$175 million in cash and shares for explorer Mariana Resources and its 30% stake in the…
Top 10 Canadian base metal explorers and developers
The Northern Miner used the IntelligenceMine database of our sister company Infomine to determine the top-10 largest base metal companies headquartered in Canada that have non-producing assets. The list is…
Facts ‘n’ Figures: Canadian mines take backseat to world’s iron ore, copper giants
While our issue this week is filled with top-10 lists of Canadian mining and its burgeoning junior exploration and development sector, it’s always good to take a step back and…
LME and World Gold Council launch LMEprecious
The following is an edited amalgam of statements by the London Metal Exchange on the LME and World Gold Council’s launch of the LMEprecious trading platform on July 10 in…
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 67: On location in Dawson City ft. Shawn Ryan & Ranj Pillai
The Northern Miner presents our annual podcast from Dawson City, Yukon. Matt and Lesley report on-site from the Yukon Mining Investment Conference to dig into all the emerging stories in…
Washington Companies bids US$1.2B for Dominion Diamond
A privately held group with no experience in diamond mining owned by American industrialist and entrepreneur Dennis R. Washington — who got his start building roads in Alaska — is…
TSX rises, July 10-14
Canada’s central bank raised its overnight lending rate by a quarter-percentage-point to 0.75% from 0.5%–the first interest rate hike in seven years. “Growth is broadening across industries and regions and…