Articles by Northern Miner Staff



Construction at the Mangara oil fields in Chad. Credit: Caracal Energy

Glencore Xstrata to buy Caracal Energy

Just a day after the ink dried on Glencore Xstrata’s (LSE: GLEN) all-cash agreement to sell its Las Bambas copper project  in Peru to a Chinese consortium for nearly US$6 billion, the Swiss-based commodities giant announced a US$1.35…





Rio Alto Mining's La Arena gold mine in Peru, 480 km northwest of Lima.  Credit:  Rio Alto Mining

Rio Alto keeps its profit and cuts costs

Rio Alto Mining (TSX: RIO; NYSE: RIOM) may have missed its earnings estimate, but it still showed the market it could turn a profit in a lean gold-price environment.



Machines move material in the pit at Primero Mining's Black Fox gold mine in Timmins, Ontario.  Credit: Primero Mining

Primero aims to turn around Black Fox

Primero Mining (TSX: P; NYSE: PPP) is adopting the turnaround strategy it used at its San Dimas underground gold–silver mine in Mexico to its recently acquired Black Fox gold mine near Timmins, Ont., where it aims for another success…


A Banro employee examines drill core at the Namoya gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Credit: Banro

Namoya boosts Banro’s gold reserves 53%

Toronto-based Banro (TSX: BAA; NYSE-MKT: BAA) has published an initial reserve estimate for its new Namoya gold mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pushing up company-wide reserves by 53% to 2.36 million oz.



The new deepwater, multi-user iron ore dock under construction in Sept-les, Quebec, where New Millennium plans to send iron ore from the Taconite project in the Labrador Trough. Credit: New Millennium Iron

New Millennium, Tata Steel show Taconite is feasible

VANCOUVER — The Taconite project feasibility study is complete, which means that in four months project-owner New Millennium Iron (TSX: NML) should know whether joint-venture partner Tata Steel will turn the Labrador Trough iron-ore…


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