Roxgold has ‘spectacular’ gold hits in Burkina Faso
Vancouver-based Roxgold (ROG-V) keeps reporting intriguing results at its Yaramoko gold concession in western Burkina Faso, near Ouagadougou.
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Orbite Aluminae hits another milestone
Montreal-based Orbite Aluminae (ORT-T) (previously named “Exploration Orbite”) has been given the go-ahead to extract a bulk sample of up to 3,000 tonnes of aluminous clay over the next year from its Grande-Vallée claystone deposit in…
Cte d’Ivoire troubles trip up Avion in Mali
Avion Gold (AVR-T) has fallen short of its third-quarter gold production target by 17%, owing to heavy rains and delays in receiving spare parts.
Who knew there was gold in Chapleau?
In the 11 years David Palmer has spent working in remote, infrastructure-challenged corners of northern Ontario and Quebec, the geologist has never had the luxury of stepping out of his hotel and being on-site within 15 minutes. Until Borden…
Sabina finding deeper mineralization at Goose claims
Sabina Gold & Silver (SBB-T) continues to churn out drill results as it works towards resource updates and a scoping study for its Back River project in Nunavut.
Canadian Mining Hall of Fame to honour five new inductees
The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, of which The Northern Miner is a sponsor, will welcome five new inductees at its twenty-fourth annual induction dinner on Jan. 12, 2012, at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto. The new inductees are Ned…
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A different kind of Nevada for Meadow Bay
The low gold prices of the mid-1980s forced the Atlanta mine in northeastern Nevada to close down. But remnants of the old mine still remain.
Hard Creek’s new Turnagain PEA cuts capex by $1.6B
Vancouver – Metallurgical advancements have led Hard Creek Nickel (HNC-T) to release a new preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its flagship Turnagain nickel project in northwestern British Columbia. Despite the PEA being the company’s…
Boss Power wins $30M settlement from BC Government
Vancouver – Boss Power (BPU-V) has made $30-million from a uranium prospect without drilling a single hole.
Panoro’s big dreams for Cotabambas
Vancouver -In the northern reaches of south-central Peru’s Andahuaylas-Yauri belt, 50 km southwest of Cusco, three drill rigs are turning at Panoro Minerals’ (PML-V) Cotabambas copper-gold-porphyry project, where the company hopes to delineate…
ATAC reveals a Tiger but the market waits for Nadaleen
ATAC Resources (ATC-V) has submitted a maiden resource estimate, and while it doesn’t come from the zone that investors are most interested in, it still shows a promising deposit. The resource estimate comes out of the Tiger deposit, which sits…