Articles by Northern Miner Staff

An ore-storage dome under construction at Detour Gold's Detour Lake gold mine in Ontario. Photo by Graeme Oxby

Detour Gold pours first dore bars

Detour Gold (DGC-T) and its shareholders have something to cheer about, as the junior gold explorer has graduated to producer after completing its first gold pour at the large Detour Lake mine in northeastern Ontario, a goal the company has…


At the mid-January launch ceremony at the Bissa gold mine in Burkina Faso, from front left: Matthew Wilcox, Bissa Gold general director; Nikolai Zelensky, Nordgold CEO; and Philip Baum, Nordgold chairman. Source: Nordgold

Nordgold opens Bissa mine in Burkina Faso

BISSA, BURKINA FASO — Just 15 months after starting construction, Nordgold (NORD-L) has entered production at its Bissa open-pit gold mine in Burkina Faso, located in the rural commune of Sabce, 100 km north of the capital Ouagadougou.



McEwen Mining senior vice-president Ian Ball (left) and CEO Rob McEwen at the El Gallo silver-gold project in Mexico's Sinaloa state. Photo by Trish Saywell

McEwen finds a sweet spot in Sinaloa

MOCORITO, SINALOA, MEXICO — The state of Sinaloa is a narrow strip of land hugging 650 km of coastline in northwestern Mexico that makes up 3% of the country’s land mass, 2% of its population and a hefty 30% of its food production.


Energizer outlines graphite economics in Madagascar

VANCOUVER — A busy twelve months for Toronto-based explorer Energizer Resources (EGZ-T) culminated on Feb. 26 with the release of a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on its Molo graphite deposit 145 km southeast of the city of Toliara…


Thompson Creek looks challenges in the eye

First the good news: Thompson Creek Metals (TCM-T) says it has enough cash to complete construction of its recently acquired Mt. Milligan copper-gold deposit near Prince George, British Columbia, and that the project remains on target for…





Alder revisits the former Rosita project

Alder Resources’ (ALR-V) chairman Don Dudek and CEO Joseph Arengi, who were persistent in pursuing the past-producing copper-gold-silver Rosita project in northeast Nicaragua, are hoping their perseverance will soon pay off with a big…


TSX Venture continues decline, Feb. 19-22

VANCOUVER — The S&P TSX Venture Composite Index dropped 3.5% or 40.97 points during the shortened Feb. 19-22 trading period before closing out the week at 1,144.68 points. Declining commodity prices continue to put downward pressure…



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