Book excerpt: Budding mogul J.P. Bickell’s hunt for gold in Ontario
The would-be millionaire John Paris Bickell had first become interested in the metals of the earth during a trip to the Yukon goldfields as a young man. Then, in 1903,…
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The Northern Miner podcast – episode 76: Commodities outlook & geophysics 101
We’re back with a mega-commodity outlook special that takes a look macroeconomic conditions heading into the fourth quarter of 2017. Matt reads through Scotia Capital’s massive, 65-page commodity update and…
TSX Venture gains, Oct. 2-6
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index gained 7.09 points to a 788.32-point close, as spot gold prices fell US$3.07 to US$1,276.68 per oz., whereas Comex copper prices gained US7¢ to US$3.03…
Site visit: New Age Metals finds high grade
SUDBURY, ONTARIO – The optics are rarely very good when a major pulls out of a joint-venture project with a junior company. In the case of River Valley in northwestern…
Canadian Zinc aims for 2020 production at Prairie Creek
VANCOUVER — Canadian Zinc (TSX: CZN; US-OTC: CZICF) has set the stage for a 2020 production target at its past-producing Prairie Creek zinc-lead mine, which sits amid the Mackenzie Mountains, 500…
MAC takes action against child and forced labour
The following is an edited statement from the Mining Association of Canada. For more information, please visit www.mining.ca. The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) has added two components to its…
Centerra CEO on ‘comprehensive settlement’ at Kumtor
VANCOUVER — After 18 months of negotiations, Centerra Gold (TSX: CS; US-OTC: CAGDF) has apparently resolved outstanding political disputes with the Kyrgyzstan government over the company’s cornerstone Kumtor gold mine in…
Site visit: AuRico nears construction decision at Kemess
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — There’s a sense of momentum building at the historic Kemess open-pit, gold-copper mine site in north-central British Columbia. AuRico Metals (TSX: AMI; US-OTC: ARCTF) has hit numerous…
First Mining tables positive PEA at Springpole
A preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of First Mining Finance’s (TSX: FF) wholly owned Springpole gold-silver project, 110 km northeast of Red Lake, Ont., has yielded positive results, the company said…
Site visit: Big gets bigger for Agnico, Yamana at Canadian Malartic
MALARTIC, QUEBEC — Despite its already enormous size, the Canadian Malartic open-pit gold mine in Malartic, Que., halfway between Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d’Or, is on track to grow even more for…
Quebec Snapshot: Nine juniors with active exploration and development projects
Quebec has proven to be a hotbed for junior mining company activity and perennially one of the industry’s favourite jurisdictions in which to operate. Gold remains the target of interest,…
Feds, Yukon gov’t team to fund improved roads to mines
The Yukon mining community got some good news on Sept. 2 with the announcement by the federal and Yukon governments that they would jointly fund a $360-million program dubbed the…