Articles by Northern Miner Staff

Peregrine Metals attracts attention

With the war for talent heating up in the mining industry it was something of a coup for junior Peregrine Metals (PGM-T) to snag as its new president Richard Leclerc — a seasoned mining veteran who over the course of his 29-year career has…


Commodities strong but TSX flat

The commodities sector asserted its strength over the April 4-8 period but failed to take the heavily resource weighted TSX Composite Index along for the ride. The Index was off, if only mildly, 4 points for the period, finishing at 14,208.43…



Positive PEA pumps Prodigy (April 11, 2011)

Junior explorer Prodigy Gold (PDG-V) got a warm reception on the market after releasing a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Magino gold project in northern Ontario.


Silver was U.S. market darling, Apr. 4-8

Twenty companies on the New York Stock Exchange reached new 52-week highs, while none fell to new 52-week lows, during the Apr. 4-8 trading week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average inched up 3.33 points or 0.03% to close at 12,380.05, while the…


Continental climbs on high-grade hits

Recent results from Continental Gold’s (CNL-T) Buritica gold project in Colombia add further support to the notion that the company has a significant project on it hands. 



Oyu Tolgoi to produce 3M oz. silver a year

With silver prices cruising to new heights, investor interest in the sizable Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia has “prompted” Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N, IVN-Q) to “more widely circulate the projections for silver production that have…




Pan American’s best year

Pan American Silver’s (PAA-T, PAAS-Q) seven operating mines in Mexico, Peru, Argentina and Bolivia churned out a total of 24.3 million oz. of silver in 2010, a year-on-year rise of 5%, leaving the company with more than US$360 million in the…


Augusta Resource's Rosemont copper-silver project in Arizona, one of Silver Wheaton's silver streams. Photo by Augusta Resource

Silver Wheaton boosts reserves 9% (April 11, 2011)

The timing of Silver Wheaton’s (SLW-T, SLW-N) announcement on March 23 that it had boosted attributable reserves more than 9% in 2010 couldn’t have been better, as silver hit a fresh 31-year peak in futures markets on that day, with silver…


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