Suppliers news: Cementation earns gold for safety
North Bay, Ont.-based contractor Cementation received a gold award at the Canada Occupation Safety Awards Gala in Toronto in October. The award recognizes the mine…
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Laurentian lands $49M from Feds for research
Sudbury’s Laurentian University says it is launching an “unprecedented research effort” to boost the discovery rates of new mineral deposits, with the largest funding announcement…
Darnley Bay buys NWT zinc deposits, updates BC resource
Darnley Bay Resources (TSXV: DBL) is acquiring 42 zinc-lead deposits over a 68 km strike length in the Northwest Territories, and the junior explorer’s management…
Miner Moments #5: Filmmaker Nettie Wild discusses KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful
Staff writer Lesley Stokes sits down with filmmaker Nettie Wild for a chat about her award-winning “cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia,” KONELĪNE: our land…
Editorial: Young Mining Professional Award to honour mining’s best under 40
At The Northern Miner, we’ve taken good care to honour the old lions and lionesses of the Canadian mining industry with our co-founding and ongoing…
Editorial: The Clintons, Morocco and OCP
The usually low-profile mining industry first popped up in the high-stakes U.S. 2016 presidential election campaign a couple of years ago, with the New York…
Win free tickets to the Vancouver showing of KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful
The Northern Miner is proud to be Co-Presenter of the Vancouver commercial premiere of the feature-length documentary, KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful, which won the “Best…
Brazil-focused Crusader Resources features high-profile board
Investors in North America may not be familiar with Aussie gold junior Crusader Resources, but investors in Australia would have heard of the company’s largest…
Odds ‘n’ Sods: Young Johnnie gets bushed
Toward the end of my first summer in the bush in 1958, we had a crew change. I was party chief of a three-man McPhar…
New execs hope to turn around Luna Gold
The team that put the Karma gold mine into production in Burkina Faso for True Gold before the junior was acquired by Endeavour Mining (TSX:…
TNM Panel: Argentina a ‘playground for geologists’
Industry experts weighed in on Argentina’s Deseado Massif region, Barrick Gold’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) recent spill at the Veladero gold mine, and the country’s…
Productivity, cost concerns weigh on Chile’s miners
Productivity concerns, high costs and unmet landowner expectations are some of the problems foreign mining companies face in Chile — a country responsible for a…