Advantage Lithium cashes up before closing Orocobre deal
Advantage Lithium (TSXV: AAL) is turning its focus to Argentina in a race to produce lithium, as lithium demand and prices steadily rise. The junior — which has five lithium…
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Exclusive interview: Lukas Lundin on the state of the mining industry
VANCOUVER — Lukas Lundin, chairman of the Lundin Group of Companies, sat down with The Northern Miner via Skype from Switzerland for an in-depth discussion on the current state of…
Goldcorp entering ‘harvest mode,’ CEO Garofalo says
Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) has outlined an ambitious five-year growth plan, targeting a 20% increase in both gold reserves and annual production, plus a 20% reduction in all-in sustaining…
Columbus Gold CEO talks Montagne d’Or, Eastside
VANCOUVER — Columbus Gold (TSX: CGT; US-OTC: CBGDF) has had a busy to start to the year as it worked on a feasibility study at its joint-ventured Montagne d’Or gold project…
Editorial: Copper prices near two-year highs
If you ever wondered what would happen to copper prices if 10% of world supply suddenly went offline, mid-February provided the answer: Spot copper prices soared to 20-month highs of…
JDL, Luna to merge, become Trek Mining
VANCOUVER — Newly formed JDL Mining (TSXV: JDL; US-OTC: LWLCF) and debt-heavy Luna Gold (TSX: LGC; US-OTC: LGCVF) hope that a proposed merger of the two companies will pave the…
Uranium snapshot: six juniors of interest
With uranium oxide prices making a rebound over the last two months after hitting 12-year lows, uranium juniors are seeing renewed interest from investors. Here are six such companies worth…
Toachi has VMS target by the tail at La Plata in Ecuador
La Plata — a gold-rich, volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit, 85 km south of Ecuador’s capital city of Quito — was the subject of small-scale mining from open-pit and underground…
TNM Data Miner: Largest global gold reserves in 2016
The Northern Miner put together the largest global gold reserves at operating mines in 2016, using the Intelligence Mine database from sister company Infomine. The list excludes combined reserves at…
Lumina Gold tallies 4M oz. gold resource in Ecuador
Lumina Gold (TSXV: LUM) has carved out 4 million oz. gold at its Cangrejos project in the Andean foothills of southwestern Ecuador’s El Oro province, and mineralization remains open to…
Eloro secures foothold in popular Peruvian gold belt
The North Central Mineral Belt of Peru is well-known for the gold mines that dot its landscape, from South America’s largest gold mine, Yanacocha, owned by Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM)…
TNM Data Miner: Top 5 global copper resources in 2016
VANCOUVER — Tapping into the IntelligenceMine database of our sister company Infomine, The Northern Miner has compiled the world’s five largest copper deposits at operating mines worldwide based on resources. 1….