Articles by Northern Miner Staff

New York-based junior Capital Gold celebrated a watershed financing that paves the way for construction of its El Chanate mine in Sonora state, Mexico.Denver-based Royal Gold is supplying the entire c…

Following a positive feasibility study, Yamana Gold (YRI-T) has decided to put its Fazenda Nova project, in Brazil’s Goias state, into production.The planned operation, which comprises a group of smal…

Toronto-based SouthernEra Resources (SUF-T) is using a staged approach to develop its Messina platinum assets, 250 km northeast of Johannesburg on the eastern limb of South Africa’s Bushveld igneous c…

Talks have broken off between enforcement staff of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Teck Cominco (TEK-T), after the EPA refused an offer from the company to fund environmental site e…

Budgets have been approved for a full feasibility study at the Gahcho Kue (Kennady Lake) diamond property in the Northwest Territories. The project is being operated by De Beers Consolidated Mining on…

Vancouver — Canada’s junior exchange continued its bull run as gold broke through the US$400-per-oz. mark over the 5-day trading period ended Dec. 2. The S&P-TSX Venture Exchange composite index rock…

Vancouver — Canarc Resource (CCM-V) is encouraged by the latest batch of drill results from the JQA prospect at its Benzdorp property in Suriname.Benzdorp, which comprises 1,380 sq. km, is 300 km sou…

Junior Jaguar Nickel (JNI-T) has started up a pilot plant designed to test the viability of its proprietary atmospheric chloride-leach process on ore samples from the Sechol nickel-cobalt laterite pro…