Prospero begins phase 2 drilling at Pachuca
Prospero Silver (TSXV: PSL; US-OTC: PSRVF) has begun phase two drilling at its Pachuca SE project in Hidalgo State, Mexico, shortly after Fortuna Silver Mines (TSX: FVI; NYSE: FSM) exercised…
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The Northern Miner Podcast – Miner Moment #18: Getting savvier with energy consumption ft Peak Power’s Matt Sachs
Peak Power COO Matt Sachs talks about how industrial users of electricity can use predictive technology to move off grid power during peak load times, and save money. This is…
The Northern Miner Podcast – Miner Moment #17: Rare earth’s clean mining problems and solutions ft GeoMega’s Kiril Mugerman
GeoMega Resources (TSXV: GMA) president and CEO Kiril Mugerman discusses the problems with the current mining and processing of rare earth elements (REEs) that are critical to making rare earth…
Turquoise Hill production guidance levels off in 2019
Oyu Tolgoi is expected to produce 125,000 to 155,000 tonnes of copper and 180,000 to 220,000 ounces of gold in concentrates this year, Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ)…
Bayhorse samples high-grade silver in Oregon
Bayhorse Silver (TSXV: BHS; US-OTC: KXPLF) has tabled 23 new silver channel samples from its Bayhorse silver mine in Oregon. The company is trying to find the mine’s higher grade…
Denison begins $6M drill campaign in Saskatchewan
Denison Mines (TSX: DML; NYSE-AM: DNN) getting to work on this year’s exploration programs on its Wheeler River, Waterbury Lake and Hook-Carter uranium properties in northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca basin. Waterbury…
Australia’s Bellevue Gold gets top marks from Macquarie
Macquarie Research has chosen Bellevue Gold (ASX: BGL) as its top explorer pick in Australia for 2019. The junior, which trades at A49.5¢ per share and has a US$143-million market…
Brucejack, Silvertip among BC’s biggest recent successes
The most recent Annual Survey of Mining Companies by the Fraser Institute ranked British Columbia seventh among Canadian mining jurisdictions. But no other province or territory has had two new…
Canadian geologist Kirk Woodman murdered in Burkina Faso
Kirk Woodman, vice-president of exploration for Vancouver-based private gold explorer Progress Minerals, was found dead on Jan. 16 in rural Burkina Faso, after having been abducted a day earlier by…
Wesdome forecasts grade increase at Eagle River
Wesdome Gold Mines (TSX: WDO) expects to produce 72,000-80,000 ounces of gold this year at all-in sustaining costs (AISC) of US$985-$1,040 per oz. at its Eagle River mine complex in…
Serabi Gold hits record gold production in Q4
Serabi Gold (TSX: SBI; LON; SRB) produced a record 10,256 oz. gold in 2018’s fourth quarter, propelling its 2018 gold production to 37,108 oz. gold, a slight improvement over 2017…
Integra delays resource after drill hit
Integra Resources (TSXV: ITR; US-OTC: IRRZF) will delay an updated resource estimate for its DeLamar gold-silver project in southwestern Idaho after drill core from a step-out hole nearly half a…