Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Passport Potash CEO Joshua Bleak (centre) with colleagues at Holbrook. Photo by John Cumming.

Passport sees potash aplenty in Arizona

Is it possible to build a potash mine right beside Arizona’s treasured Petrified Forest National Park? Vancouver-based Passport Potash (PPI-V) believes so, and has in hand a new preliminary economic assessment that’s giving it the…



Agnico-Eagle stoic as gold price tumbles

This year’s first quarter brought challenges beyond a falling gold price for Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM-T, AEM-N), but it’s nothing that a company with a 55-year history can’t weather.


Aldridge de-risks Yenipazar in Turkey

A nation at the crossroads of Europe and Asia measuring about 800 by 1,600 km is punching above its weight as an emerging mining jurisdiction, with operating mines owned by Inmet Mining (IMN-T), Eldorado Gold (ELD-T, EGO-N) and Alacer Gold…


Capstone buys BHP’s Pinto Valley

VANCOUVER — Most of the world’s mining majors are selling non-core assets so that they can optimize key operations, shore up earnings and cut back capital outlays. The shift follows a few years of overspending spurred by commodity…


Old files at the past-producing Horne polymetallic mine. Source: Falco Pacific Resource Group

Falco finds gold in Horne’s old data

Falco Pacific Resource Group (FPC-V) secured the jewel of Canada’s mining history just as markets tightened. But rather than let the conditions get it down, the company wound up proving that necessity is indeed the mother of invention…


Agnico-Eagle Mines CEO Sean Boyd.

Agnico’s steady hand in choppy waters

The downturn in the gold market may be making investors anxious, but the head of one of Canada’s most prominent gold miners, Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM-T, AEM-N), is staying as cool as a spring breeze in Nunavut.







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