Fireside chat with Kirkland Lake Gold’s Tony Makuch
The Northern Miner hosted its third annual Progressive Mine Forum in October. During the event, Tony Makuch, president and CEO of Kirkland Lake Gold (TSX: KL; NYSE: KL), sat down…
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Newmont Goldcorp begins commercial production at Quecher Main
The Quecher Main project at Newmont Goldcorp’s (TSX: NGT; NYSE: NEM) Yanacocha gold mine in Peru has achieved commercial production ahead of schedule and under budget. The project will extend the life…
UEX finds mineralization at Christie Lake
UEX (TSX: UEX) has intersected new uranium mineralization at its 60%-owned Christie Lake project, 9 km northeast of Cameco’s (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) McArthur River uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan….
Chile in turmoil as tensions boil over
The worst unrest in Chile in a generation threatens to overturn assumptions about one of South America’s most stable countries and the world’s leading copper producer. All it took was…
Foran advances McIlvenna Bay in Saskatchewan
Foran Mining (TSXV: FOM) is on track to complete a feasibility study before year-end on its flagship McIlvenna Bay volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit in Saskatchewan. The deposit — situated…
Commentary: Mining’s unlikely heroines — Greta Thunberg and AOC
Left-wing darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed Green New Deal, despite its flimsy 14 pages, is nothing if not all-encompassing and vaulting in its ambition. The bill was also crucial to Ocasio-Cortez’s…
Taiga Gold, SSR Mining report visible gold at Fisher
In May 2016, Silver Standard Resources, now called SSR Mining (TSX: SSRM; NASDAQ: SSRM), acquired Claude Resources and its Seabee gold operation in Saskatchewan for $337 million in cash and…
Eric Sprott invests $15M in Gran Colombia
Gran Colombia Gold (TSX: GCM; US-OTC: TPRFF) has raised $15 million from the sale of 3.2 million units at $4.60 per unit to Eric Sprott in a non-brokered private placement….
Canadian Prairies Snapshot: Eight companies to watch
Manitoba and Saskatchewan are among the world’s premier jurisdictions for mining and mineral exploration. Here’s a look at eight companies working in the provinces. ALX Uranium ALX Uranium (TSXV: AL)…
Pan American hits high-grade at La Colorada in Mexico
A 14,300-metre drill program completed during the third quarter at the La Colorada skarn discovery in Mexico has returned high-grade intercepts for Pan American Silver (TSX: PAAS; NASDAQ: PAAS). Drill highlights…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 158: ‘Paradigm shift’ for mining industry as ESG takes centre stage, ft Singh Gill, Mueller, Pazuki, Werstiuk, Zisman
This episode features the ESG panel from The Northern Miner’s third annual Progressive Mine Forum, which took place on Oct. 16 at the MaRS Discovery District in downtown Toronto. Panellists…
Wealth Minerals and Rosatom sign MOU
Russia’s state nuclear group Rosatom and Canada’s Wealth Minerals (TSXV: WML) are working towards a partnership at the junior’s Atacama lithium project in northern Chile. The two companies signed a memorandum…