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Brent Cook sees opportunity in junior market rout

Last year was pretty ugly for junior mining investors. Even Brent Cook, editor of the newsletter Exploration Insights and a geologist with over 30 years of experience in the field, couldn't buck the general market downtrend. He ended the...
Jan 26, 2012 12:15PM


Orezone upsizes Bomboré drill program

Orezone Gold (ORE-T) plans to drill another 45,000 metres at its Bomboré gold project, in Burkina Faso, making its 170,000-metre drilling program even bigger.
Jan 10, 2012 5:00PM


SilverCrest posts initial La Joya resource

After drilling more than 27 holes on its La Joya property in Durango state, Mexico, last year, SilverCrest Mines (SVL-V) has released an initial inferred resource estimate totalling 100 milion silver-equivalent oz.
Jan 5, 2012 4:45PM


Will Quebec's Plan Nord boost its cachet as a jurisdiction of choice?

It's probably safe to say that no one is happier about Plan Nord -- Quebec's 25-year plan to stimulate investment in the province's vast northern reaches -- than André Gaumond.
Dec 28, 2011 11:01AM


Stock picks for the new year

With a tumultuous 2011 coming to a close, Northern Miner staff writer Anthony Vaccaro assembled a panel of industry experts for their take on what 2012 will bring for the markets, commodities prices, and their favourite stocks. On our panel is:...
Dec 21, 2011 12:19PM


Peregrine to buy BHP's stake in Chidliak for $9M

Less than a month after mining giant BHP Billiton (BLT-L, BHP-A) announced it was reviewing its 80% ownership of the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories and its 51% interest in the Chidliak diamond project in Nunavut, it has reached...
Dec 20, 2011 4:30PM


Gold junior Richmont Mines on the cusp of transformation

Having been only eight years old when his father, Jean-Guy Rivard, started Richmont Mines (RIC-T, RIC-X) in 1981, Martin Rivard spent most of his childhood hearing about the trials and tribulations of junior mining at the dinner table.
Dec 15, 2011 11:35AM


Labrador Inuit lift ban on uranium development

The Nunatsiavut Labrador Inuit government has unanimously voted to lift a moratorium on uranium mining that it narrowly approved in an 8-7 vote three years ago.
Dec 14, 2011 5:53PM


The Point Lake 'epiphany'

On Nov. 6, 1991, the latest edition of The Northern Miner was on its way to bed when our fax machine spit out one page of seemingly unremarkable news: an obscure junior called Dia Met Minerals had discovered small diamonds somewhere in the...
Dec 8, 2011 3:29PM


An alternative narrative for gold and silver

Gold and silver companies, be they producers or ounce-in-the-ground developers, have lagged the recent rise in gold and silver bullion prices to record levels, confounding expectations of a long-awaited precious metals equity market boom....
Dec 7, 2011 11:02AM


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