Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Processing facilities at Lundin Mining's   Eagle copper-nickel mine in Michigan. Credit:  Lundin Mining

Lundin produces concentrate at Eagle

With the start of concentrate production and the completion of mill commissioning ahead of schedule and under budget at Lundin Mining’s (TSX: LUN) high-grade Eagle mine in Michigan, the company is poised to start shipments of the first…


Precipitate Gold vice-president of exploration Michael Moore (facing camera) analyzes core from discovery hole 5 at the Ginger Ridge zone, part of the Juan de Herrera gold project in the Dominican Republic. Credit: Precipitate Gold

Precipitate Gold team talks discovery at Ginger Ridge

VANCOUVER — It took junior Precipitate Gold (TSXV: PRG; US-OTC: PREIF) two years of socio-political wrangling to get its drills turning, but only a fraction of that time to make a discovery at its 125 sq. km Juan de Herrera…


Rising GDP drives consumer gold demand

The following is an edited summary from the U.K.-based World Gold Council about its report entitled: The growth dividend: How rising GDP lifts gold consumer demand. The full report can be found at www.gold.org.



A bucket-wheel excavator at BHP Billiton's Klipspruit thermal coal mine in South Africa. Credit: BHP Billiton

China moves to restrict imports of low-quality coal

A week before the United Nations Climate Summit kicked off in New York, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) released a directive on coal stating that the country would restrict imports of low-quality coal in certain…



A ball mill at the Sigma-Lamaque gold-processing plant in Val-d'Or, Quebec.

Integra Gold gets creative with Sigma-Lamaque

VANCOUVER — It’s not often that a junior company can get its hands on a 2,200-tonne-per-day processing facility a mere 500 metres way from its resource-stage project boundary. But that’s exactly what Integra…


The geology team at Arianne Phosphate's Lac  Paul phosphate project, 200 km north of Saguenay, Quebec. Credit: Arianne Phosphate

Quebec government invests $2M in Arianne Phosphate

The Quebec government — through Investissement Québec — is investing $2 million to become a shareholder in Arianne Phosphate (TSXV: DAN; US-OTC: DRRSF) and its Lac à Paul deposit, one of the largest greenfield…


Iamgold's Niobec niobium mine in Quebec's Lac-Saint-Jean region, 200 km north of Quebec City. Credit: Iamgold

Iamgold to sell Niobec mine

President and CEO Steve Letwin of Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) told the Denver Gold Forum that he is confident the company can soon sell its Niobec mine in Quebec for $500 million after taxes.



Pierre Lassonde.

Calibre Mining wins over Pierre Lassonde

When executive chairman Doug Forster and director Blayne Johnson of Calibre Mining (TSXV: CXB; US-OTC: CXBMF) sat down at the Denver Gold Forum in mid-September and presented an update on the company’s Nicaraguan gold projects to Pierre…



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