Articles by Northern Miner Staff



Workers underground at Vale's Taquari-Vassouras   potash mine in Brazil. Credit: Vale

Moody’s puts 55 miners on review for downgrade

Moody’s Investors Service has put the credit ratings of 55 mining companies under review due to poor market conditions, noting this downturn marks a “unprecedented shift” for the mining industry.



Moe Lavigne, KWG Resources' vice-president of exploration and development, inspects core in 2010 at the Big Daddy chromite deposit in Ontario. Credit: WG Resources

KWG turns to China for help in Ring of Fire

A railway design and engineering company named China Railway First Survey & Design Institute Group Co. (FSDI) and owned by China Railway Construction, one of China’s three major state-owned rail groups, is teaming with KWG…


Potash Corp.'s Rocanville potash facility in Rocanville, Sask. Source: Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan

PotashCorp suspends its newest mine in NB

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX: POT; NYSE: POT) is indefinitely suspending its new Picadilly potash mine in New Brunswick to lower its company-wide costs — dismissing roughly 430 workers. 





An aerial view of Imperial Metals' 50%-owned Huckleberry open-pit copper mine in west-central British Columbia, which was suspended this month. Credit: Huckleberry Mines

Imperial suspends open pit at Huckleberry in BC

VANCOUVER — Steve Robertson, spokesperson for Huckleberry Mines and vice-president of corporate affairs for Imperial Metals (TSX: III; US-OTC: IPMLF), says there’s value left in the ground at the open-pit Huckleberry copper mine, 88…


Victoria Gold president and CEO John McConnell at Victoria Gold's Eagle gold project in the Yukon. Photo by Matthew Keevil.

Site visit: Victoria’s Eagle truly ‘shovel ready’

MAYO, YUKON — When it comes to visiting mine sites in northern Canada there aren’t too many that boast better access than Victoria Gold’s (TSXV: VIT; US-OTC: VITFF) Dublin Gulch property, which is reached via a civilized,…


The main access portal at Eldorado Gold's Olympias gold-silver-lead-zinc mine in northern Greece. Credit: Eldorado Gold

Eldorado halts its Skouries project in Greece

Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO) is suspending construction at its Skouries gold-copper project due to a lack of government support, and says it will halt its Olympias underground mine if the Ministry of Energy and Environment doesn’t…


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