Last week, we awarded our “Mining Persons of the Year” for 2013 to Fission Uranium (TSXV-FCU) president and COO Ross McElroy and chairman and CEO Dev Randhawa. This week we interview McElroy, and next week, Randhawa, on their careers, Fission…
Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR; US-OTC: ARNGF) has completed a prefeasibility study (PFS) based on 40% of a 2013 resource estimate for its Magino property, 40 km northeast of Wawa, Ont. The PFS excludes underground and surface drilling data prior to…
VANCOUVER — The B.C. government’s rejection of junior Pacific Booker Minerals’ (TSXV: BKM; NYSE-MKT: PBM) environmental assessment (EA) certificate at its Morrison Lake copper–gold project, located 65 km north of…
It’s been a record year of growth for www.northernminer.com, with the site now attracting more than 85,000 visits per month, and almost half a million unique visitors for all of 2013. Here is a selection of the most-clicked stories over…
Like in any industry, supply-demand imbalances in mining products are at the root of dramatic price fluctuations and market upheavals. This is what has been happening in the mining industry in 2013: market imbalances have led to rock bottom…
Golden Band Resources (TSXV: GBN) is indefinitely suspending its Roy Lloyd and Golden Heart gold mines and the Jolu mill in northern Saskatchewan, starting Jan. 1, 2014.
A merger between Canada Lithium (TSX: CLQ; US-OTC: CLQMF) and Sirocco Mining (TSXV: SIM; US-OTC: ATAAF) would make the combined entity one of just two public companies that produce iodine and lithium, the companies say.
Since the days of the Manhattan project, there have been three conventional rules for finding uranium mineralization in Saskatchewan: it occurs in the Athabasca basin, usually in the lowest sandstone unit that’s in contact with the…
Vancouver-based International Millennium Mining (TSXV: IMI), which has exploration properties in B.C. and Nevada, is adding ground to its portfolio in Africa through a planned merger with a slightly larger private company called Elephant Copper.
Champion Iron Mines (TSX: CHM; US-OTC: CPMNF) brought its Consolidated Fire Lake North project in the Labrador Trough to the prefeasibility stage, and Mamba Minerals (ASX: MAB) believes it has what it takes to advance the iron-ore project all…
U.S. markets took a hit during the week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 264.84 points, or 1.6% to 15,755.36. The broader S&P 500 Index tumbled nearly 30 points to 1,775.32. The Nasdaq Composite Index slipped 61.54 points to…
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index declined for a second straight week during the trading sessions, with a sell-off heading into the holiday season resulting in a 2.4%, or 22.18-point loss, en route to a 894.47-point close. Word on the…
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