Auryx Gold says Namibia has been overlooked
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Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Centerra looks beyond Boroo
ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA — Walking the halls of Centerra Gold’s (CG-T) modern office overlooking the city’s political heart, Sukhbaatar Square, the president of Centerra’s local operating subsidiary Boroo Gold, John Kazakoff, gestures towards a…
Will the Chinese bid for Potash Corp.?
As speculation mounts about the possibility of alternative bids emerging for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT-T, POT-N), many eyes are turning to China, which needs potash to meet its growing food needs.”Food security is important for China…
Mindoro transitioning to producer at Agata
SITE VISIT SURIGAO, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES — A steep climb up a slippery hillside, sweating in the tropical heat and humidity, awaits those who want to properly appreciate Mindoro Resources’ (MIO-V) Agata nickel laterite project in the…
Entre sitting pretty in OT’s shadow
SOUTH GOBI DESERT, MONGOLIA — “Closeology” can sometimes be just as valuable as geology, says Lindsay Bottomer, vice-president of business development for Entrée Gold (ETG-T, EGI-X, EKA-F), a Canadian junior explorer that has tossed its…
Monument nears production at Selinsing
VANCOUVER — Tucked away in rural Malaysia, Vancouver-based Monument Mining (MMY-V, D7Q1-F) has quickly and quietly been bringing online a respectably sized gold mine.Monument acquired the Selinsing gold project in June 2007 and has since…
Prophecy advances Mongolian projects
Prophecy Resource (PCY-T, PRPCF-O) has recently upgraded the inferred resources at its Chandgana Khavtgai coal project, in east central Mongolia, to the measured and indicated category.The project’s resource now weighs in at 1.07 billion…
Rosatom pursues uranium success
Sergey Kirienko, the director general of Russia’s Rosatom, said the state-run nuclear holding company had no plans to buy out Uranium One (UUU-T), adding that its investment in the Canadian company wo…
Solid second quarter for Harry Winston
Vancouver – Harry Winston Diamond (HW-T) earned US$16.5 million in the second quarter of the year, a vast impr…
Quebec Innu drop three-month blockade of New Millennium’s DSO project
The Innu Matimekush-Lake-John First Nation has agreed to take down a barricade of New Millennium Capital’s (NM…
Goldcorp and Eldorado both want Andean
Andean Resources (AND-T, AND-A) was thrust into the spotlight in the early hours of Sept. 3 as two offers for …
UPDATE:Donner Metals completes feasibility, expands resource at Bracemac-McLeod
Nearly two months after Xstrata (XTA-L, XSRAF-O) announced it would start building the Bracemac-McLeod deposit…