Articles by Northern Miner Staff

A closeup view of the equipment at Quest Rare Minerals' Pilot plant in Mississauga, Ont. (2013). Photo: Salma Tarikh

Quest to sell 100% of Strange Lake’s zirconia to TAM

Quest Rare Minerals (TSX: QRM; AMEX: QRM) received a much-needed boost after reporting that it intends to sell 100% of the anticipated annual zirconia production from its Strange Lake rare earth deposit in northern Quebec to New York-based…


The exploration camp on the Goose Lake property, part of Sabina's Back River Project in Nunavut. Source: Sabina Gold & Silver

Sabina finds high-grade gold at George

Sabina Gold & Silver (SBB-T) has pulled some encouraging grades from the George deposit at its Back River gold-silver project in Nunavut ahead of a prefeasibility study (PFS) due later this year.




The camp at Avannaa Resources' Washington Land lead-zinc project in northern Greenland. Source: Avannaa Resources

Greenland’s timeless allure

Avannaa Resources is a privately held exploration company founded by three geologists from Britain and Denmark who pooled their interest and experience in Greenland. It may be an unfamiliar name to many, but over the last nine months, the…


TSX Venture Exchange, June 24-28

The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index has been slipping for four weeks after dropping 1.6%, or 14.39 points, en route to a 881.40-point weekly close. It has lost around 9%, or 87.66 points, since the first week of June. 






Drill core from Atico's  El Roble copper-gold project in Colombia. Source: Atico Resources

Atico completes El Roble resource

When it comes to pedigree in South America’s mining industry, it doesn’t get much better than the storied Ganoza family of Peru, which has owned and operated underground gold, silver and base metal mines in both their homeland and…


Orbite inks offtake deal with Glencore

Orbite Aluminae (ORT-T) has gained another vote of confidence from a major for its innovative technique to produce alumina from its aluminous clay deposit in Quebec, sending its shares soaring.


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