While most of the attention directed toward Goldcorp (G-T) is related to its Red Lake development in Ontario, the Toronto-based company has been quietly cranking out gold at its expanded Wharf mine in…
Conquistador Mines (CMG-V) is carrying out a due diligence review of a past-producing platinum-palladium property in Nevada.A recently signed letter-of-intent agreement gives the junior an exclusive 9…
A survey of hard-rock mining companies throughout North America has concluded that Nevada is far and away the highest-rated region for overall investment attractiveness.The survey was carried out by t…
Manhattan Minerals (MAN-T) will use proceeds of $11.25 million from a special warrant financing to explore the Tambo Grande volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) project in northern Peru.A syndicate led…
With copper prices still languishing well below US$1 per lb., many of the mines acquired by Broken Hill Proprietary (BHP-N) in its 1995 takeover of Magma Copper are losing money and facing possible cl…
Not every successful Nevada gold mine is a big, high-tonnage open pit. The Rosebud mine near Winnemucca, a joint venture of Hecla Mining (HL-N) and Newmont Mining (NEM-N), is seeing increased producti…
The Northern Miner’s support of a strong and viable U.S. mining industry is very much appreciated. Recent editorials on Summitville, Bruce Babbitt, and zinc and the EPA have been right on point. Your …
Constructed at a cost of US$64.7 million, Homestake Mining’s (HM-N) Ruby Hill gold mine near Eureka, Nev., has become the century-old mining company’s lowest-cost operation.The new mine achieved comme…
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Technical setbacks at the newly acquired Mineral Ridge gold mine and lower production at the Hycroft gold mine, both of which are in Nevada, translated into a disappointing first quarter for Vista Gol…
James Moffett, the no-nonsense chairman of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N), once predicted that if copper prices “went in the dumper,” his company’s Grasberg mine in Indonesia and BHP’s Escondi…
Timing is everything, and mine wasn’t good. I decided to join the brokerage fraternity in Toronto at the worst possible time — in the mid-1960s, not long after the trading scandal involving Windfall …
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