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Magma Adds The Ounces At Thunder Bay North

The Thunder Bay North nickel-copper- platinum group metals (PGM) project in northwestern Ontario is a greenfields success story, and one of a series of higher-grade, base metal-PGM discoveries in the mid-continental rift region that wraps…


John Embry, chief metals strategist at Sprott Asset Management in Toronto.

How High Will Gold Prices Go This Year?

With the global economic recovery still facing strong headwinds, The Northern Miner surveyed six metals experts on where they think gold prices are headed this year and next, and why.John Embry, chief metals strategist at Sprott Asset…



KGHM's Lubin polymetallic project in Poland.

Gold, Silver And ‘Mineral Deposits That Matter’

VANCOUVER–Gold and silver explorers will need to focus on “best-of- breed” mineral deposits, commodity experts told delegates at Roundup 2010, a recent conference sponsored by the Association for Min…


The camp at Andina Minerals' Volcan gold project in Chile. The Volcan project is in Chile's Maricunga gold belt, 100 km east of Copiapo. Andina is working through a 21,000-metre drill program at Volcan designed to upgrade the resource and better define high-grade zones within the Dorado deposit.

Volcan Drilling Delivers For Andina

VANCOUVER — An infill drilling program at the Volcan gold project in Chile is returning long mineralized intercepts for Andina Minerals (ADM-V).



Gold Zone Grows At East Asia’s Miwah

VANCOUVER — Two drill rigs continue to return strong results at East Asia Minerals’ (EAS-V) Miwah gold project in Indonesia. A drill program is exploring the edges of a growing gold zone as the compa…




Riverstone Samples Gold At Nami In Burkina Faso

VANCOUVER — The latest sampling results at Riverstone Resources’ (RVS-V) Karma project in Burkina Faso have returned encouraging grades as the company heads into a formal drilling program in the area…


Base Metals And ‘Mineral Deposits That Matter’

VANCOUVER — Tough economic times and reduced access to capital will force companies to narrow their exploration efforts on “best-of-breed” mineral deposits, commodity experts told delegates at Roundup 2010, a recent conference sponsored by the…


The Marathon PGM team (from front left): president and CEO Phillip Walford, geologist Jessica Borysenko, geologist Sherry Dunsworth, vice president of operations Ray Mason, and vice president of exploration David Goode (behind).

Marathon Gears Up For Mining

SITE VISIT MARATHON, ONT. — Named after a paper mill company that created jobs and sparked a population boom about 65 years ago, Marathon is now a town dwindling in size with a hurting economy.Marathon Pulp shut suddenly last year putting…


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