London Symposium video: Canada needs ‘1939 moment’
Canada should re-take its crown as a global metals producer and rise to the challenge of the green energy transition by investing in smelting and…
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London Symposium video: Investors need mental discipline and viewpoint agility
Disciplined investors must carefully test geology, location and people while remaining alert to industry “shenanigans” and psychological traps across cycles, according to the head of…
London Symposium video: Cutifani on connections
Mining companies must do a better job of connecting with youth, First Nations, recycling and new technology, former Anglo American (LSE: AAL) CEO Mark Cutifani…
YMP Scholarship: Mining’s greatest upcoming challenge? Another lost generation
The following essay was chosen as the winner of The Northern Miner’s 2025 Young Mining Professionals Scholarship. Ten years ago, in the face of considerable economic…
TNM Blast from the Past: Another atomic age
The Northern Miner’s 1951 coverage of Eldorado’s expansion at Beaverlodge — reprinted below — captured a country at the centre of a new atomic age….
London Symposium JV Video: First Mining Gold outlines Springpole project path
First Mining Gold (TSX: FF; US-OTC: FFMGF) is targeting environmental approvals in the new year after an updated prefeasibility study showed its Springpole project in…
London Symposium JV Video: Electra Battery Metals preps cobalt plant construction
Electra Battery Materials (TSX-V, Nasdaq: ELBM) is on track to start construction of its cobalt sulphate refinery in Ontario, North America’s first, within months and commission the…
Diamond slump deepens in 2025 as lab-grown bites
The diamond industry is now shifting from growth to triage, with survival tied less to geology and more to branding.
London Symposium JV Video: Canada Nickel eyes end-2026 build start at Crawford
Ottawa’s decision to move Canada Nickel’s (TSXV: CNC) Crawford nickel sulphide project into the federal Major Projects Office has strengthened the developer’s push to start…
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option
Bruno Lemelin recalls his first boss at Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) more than a decade ago encouraging him to join the Essakane mine team…
The Northern Miner’s most read stories of 2025
The Northern Miner’s 110th year showed continued leading coverage of the industry, with the new Canadian Treasure Hunt boosting readership and periodic delves into the…
Serial wealth creator Lassonde still having fun
Franco-Nevada (TSX, NYSE: FNV) co-founder Pierre Lassonde hasn’t let retirement from the C-suite dim his love for the yellow metal. Think $4,000 gold is high? Lassonde, the former Newmont (NYSE: NEM, TSX: NGT) president, has news for you….