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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Nighthawk Gold extends high-grade zone at Colomac
Nighthawk Gold (TSX: NHK), which graduated to the TSX in May, is halfway through a 25,000-metre drill program at its Colomac project in the Northwest Territories, and all of the…
TNM Data Miner: A review of Canada’s top mining companies
In honour of Canada’s 150th anniversary, The Northern Miner has put together an in-depth snapshot of the country’s most prolific modern mining companies. Data was collected from the Intelligence Mine…
Top 10 Canadian-based diamond companies
Canada is the fifth-largest diamond producer in the world, according to the Mining Association of Canada. Last year two new diamond mines came into production: Gahcho Kué in the Northwest…
Pretium achieves commercial production at Brucejack
Northwestern B.C.’s Golden Triangle just got a little more golden. On July 3, Vancouver-based Pretium Resources (TSX: PVG; NYSE: PVG) achieved first production at its 9.1 million oz. Brucejack gold…
Alexco CEO on restructured Wheaton Precious Metals deal
VANCOUVER — Alexco Resource (TSX: AXR; NYSE-MKT: AXU) is considering restarting production at its Keno Hill silver mine, 330 km north of Whitehorse, Yukon. The company suspended operations in late 2013, as…
Snapshot: Seven juniors hunting for battery minerals
The boom in electric vehicle manufacturing has translated into a lively subsector of junior explorers scouring the world for new deposits of lithium, cobalt, graphite and other minerals suited for…