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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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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