Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The street-driven notion that success should be measured only in ounces has fallen out of favour in the gold business, and Placer Dome (PDG-T), like most of its peers, intends to measure success with …

I searched the Internet for information about shares in a mine called Golden Arrow Mines Limited. My father lived in New York when he was a kid. He got some shares in this company from his mother befo…

During the report period Aug. 13-17, the base metals complex put in its strongest performance since late May, which suggests that the long downtrend in prices may be turning at last.Because the bulk o…

Alan Coope, founder of the Ottawa-based Association of Exploration Geochemists and former director of geochemistry for Newmont Mining, has died. He was 66.Coope received his doctorate degree in applie…

Vancouver — Junior Silver Standard Resources has cut a thick sequence of silver mineralization at its wholly owned Bowdens deposit in New South Wales, 200 km northwest of Sydney.The high-grade inters…

It has been talked about for decades, but until recently, plans to build a road connecting a mineral-rich portion of Canada’s North to a port on the Arctic coast haven’t left the drawing board. That m…