US markets rise, Jan. 21-25: Yamana, Iamgold and Freeport McMoRan
The gold price rose 1.66% to US$1,302.60. The Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index rose 4% to 71.17, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.12%…
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TSX Venture Exchange moves higher, Jan. 21-25: Goldsource, Roscan, Palangio, New Pacific
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index rose 1.52% to finish the trading week at 604.56. A new discovery at Goldsource Mines‘ Eagle Mountain gold project in…
TSX posts marginal gain, Jan. 21-25: Royal Nickel, Endeavour Mining, SSR and Barrick
The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 0.41% to 15,366.05. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index gained 1.71% to 68.54, while the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index fell…
Millennial Lithium de-risks Pastos Grandes
Farhad Abasov has high hopes for Millennial Lithium’s (TSXV: ML; US-OTC: MLNLF) Pastos Grandes lithium brine project in Argentina’s Salta province. The CEO expects a…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 130: Big Data in mining ft Dabby, Malik, Mullan, Stothart & Yee
This episode features a round-table discussion on “Big Data” recorded live at The Northern Miner‘s Progressive Mine Forum held at the MaRS Discovery District in…
Galway discovers gold zone at Clarence Stream in New Brunswick
Galway Metals (TSXV: GWM) has discovered 7 metres of visible gold starting 51 metres downhole in a new area of its Clarence Stream project in…
Balmoral finds nickel zones at Grasset
Balmoral Resources (TSX: BAR; US-OTC: BALMF) has found several nickel sulphide zones in the central part of its Grasset ultramafic complex in Quebec after drilling…
Is Global Atomic Stephen Roman’s next big thing?
Serial mine builder and financier Stephen Roman cut his teeth working for Denison Mines (TSX: DML; NYSE-AM: DNN), the uranium company built by his father….
Commentary: Don’t give up on the diamond industry just yet
If diamond miner equities are a proxy, the sentiment surrounding the diamond industry is now at historically low levels. Just in the last two years,…
Sandstorm picks up royalty on Lundin’s Fruta del Norte
Sandstorm Gold (TSX: SAND; NYSE: SAND) has purchased a 0.9% net smelter returns royalty for US$32.8 million in cash on precious metals produced from Lundin…
The Northern Miner Podcast – Miner Moment #18: Getting savvier with energy consumption ft Peak Power’s Matt Sachs
Peak Power COO Matt Sachs talks about how industrial users of electricity can use predictive technology to move off grid power during peak load times,…
The Northern Miner Podcast – Miner Moment #17: Rare earth’s clean mining problems and solutions ft GeoMega’s Kiril Mugerman
GeoMega Resources (TSXV: GMA) president and CEO Kiril Mugerman discusses the problems with the current mining and processing of rare earth elements (REEs) that are…