McEwen bolsters Black Fox with new resource
McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX) has tabled a maiden resource for its Stock East gold deposit and an updated resource for its Froome gold deposit to go with numerous…
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BHP buys SolGold stake for US$35M
BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP; LON: BLT) is acquiring a 6.1% stake in SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LON: SOLG), which is developing its Cascabel porphyry copper-gold project in Ecuador. BHP is buying…
Commerce hopes new US policy will benefit rare earth projects
Commerce Resources (TSXV: CCE; US-OTC: CMRZF) has spent the past 10 years developing its Ashram rare earth element (REE) project in northern Quebec. Like many REE miners, Commerce’s fate has…
Avalon discovers lithium pegmatite
A new lithium pegmatite Avalon Advanced Materials (TSX: AVL; US-OTC: AVLNF) is naming Snowbank has been found 4 km northwest of the company’s main Separation Rapids lithium deposit, near Kenora,…
Alamos boosts Island Gold’s reserves, grades
After incorporating 65,600 metres of exploration drilling in the first half of the year, Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) has increased the reserves and resources at its Island Gold…
Aztec chases silver-zinc deposits at Tombstone
Aztec Minerals (TSXV: AZT; US-OTC: AZZTF) has started surface exploration at its newly optioned Tombstone silver-zinc district, 104 km southeast of Tucson, Arizona. The company is chasing multiple mineralization types,…
Marathon discovers gold trend
Prospecting and trenching southwest of Marathon Gold’s (TSX: MOZ) Victory deposit in central Newfoundland have uncovered a 1,500-metre-long gold trend. A channel sample returned 2.71 grams gold per tonne over…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 119: Love me or hate me – The Margaret Kent (Peggy Witte) story, part 3
Part 3: Some people love me and some people hate me. “I’d been burned. You wake up and you don’t have a friend in the world. You don’t have…
Mexico Snapshot: Eight juniors tapping into Mexico’s mineral potential
Despite patches of trouble in different regions of the country from time to time, Mexico remains one of the most favoured mining and exploration jurisdictions for Canadian and U.S. juniors….
Panoro to drill new zone after expanding permit at Cotabambas
Now that Peru has approved Panoro Minerals’ (TSXV: PML; US-OTC: POROF) request for an expanded environmental impact assessment at its Cotabambas copper project in southern Peru’s Apurimac region, the company…
Site visit: Ascot looks to write Premier mine’s third chapter
STEWART, B.C. — The existing infrastructure of Ascot Resources’ (TSXV: AOT; US-OTC: AOTVF) past-producing Premier-Dilworth gold project in northwestern B.C.’s Golden Triangle region is one of its greatest assets. “Underground mine,…
Editorial: Kent, Munk shared debt regrets
At The Northern Miner, we like to think of ourselves as more than reporters of the latest news and commentaries about Canadian mining and mineral exploration. As an institution dating…