Victoria looking to become Yukon’s next gold producer
Mayo, Yukon – With all the excitement about new discoveries in the Yukon, it’s easy to forget about the established deposits that could become mines in the near term.
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Letter to the editor: New Prosperity plan is environmentally sound: Taseko CEO
I read the editorial submission of Chief Marilyn Baptiste, of the Xeni Gwet’in band of the Tsilhqot’in National Government (TNG), on The Northern Miner’s website on Nov. 2. It purported to list eight reasons why Taseko Mines’s resubmitted…
Pretium’s Robert Quartermain a goldbug all along
Vancouver – “Many people often think of me as a silver-focused individual,” keynote speaker Robert Quartermain told a crowd of around 150 mining executives in his opening remarks at a recent Association for Mineral Exploration B.C. (AME BC)…
Northern Tiger hunting for high-grade gold in SE Yukon
Whitehorse, Yukon – It’s the stuff of prospectors’ dreams. Climb up a hillside in a little-explored area and stumble upon enough visible gold to justify all those years of trudging around alone in the bush.
High grades for Eagle Hill in first resource estimate
Eagle Hill Exploration’s (EAG-V) has its first resource estimate in for its Windfall Lake project in Quebec’s Abitibi region and the grades found were better than what it was expecting.
Lassonde donates $25M to York U’s engineering program
Pierre Lassonde, the current chairman of Franco-Nevada (FNV-T, FNV-N) and one of Canada’s most successful mining entrepreneurs, has once again stepped up in a big way as a major benefactor for a Canadian university.
Golden Predator continues aggressive growth in Yukon
Dawson City, Yukon – Few companies embody the modern Yukon gold rush more than Golden Predator (GPD-T).
Auriga looks to put Maverick back in the saddle
Auriga Gold (AIA-V) is looking to bring new life back to the Maverick Gold project 65-km northeast of Flin Flon, Manitoba.
Seabridge Gold advances Courageous Lake
Infill drilling this year at Seabridge Gold’s (SEA-T) Courageous Lake property in Canada’s Northwest Territories is helping upgrade inferred resources to higher categories and increasing the size and grade of the deposit, the company says,…
Commentary: Eight reasons why Taseko’s New Prosperity will fail
Investors hoping to cash in on Taseko Mines’ second bid to develop the Prosperity copper-gold mine (“New Prosperity”) should think back a year. At that time, despite assurances from the company and its president that the original Prosperity…
Royal Nickel unveils Dumont prefeasibility
Royal Nickel (RNX-T) is targeting first production at its Dumont nickel project in western Quebec by the end of 2015 and once in full production expects it to be among the top five sulfide nickel assets in the world based on yearly nickel…
Boom times around the corner for diamond producers?
Nearly 20 years ago, when Dia Met and BHP Billiton announced the discovery that would become the Ekati diamond mine, there were more than a few skeptics who doubted that…