TNM Roundtable: Industry leaders debate strategy
Industry experts weighed in on how companies could best deploy cash at The Northern Miner’s roundtable discussion in Toronto in early April. The roundtable — sponsored by PwC and moderated…
Uranium
A 4 billion-year-old story etched in stone: Geology and metal in Canada
VANCOUVER — Canada’s geological heritage goes back over 4 billion years to when the earth was a young, hot planet covered by ocean. During this time, intense volcanism formed the…
TNM Data Miner: Canada’s Top 100 Exploration Projects in 2016
The Northern Miner has collaborated with Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and IntelligenceMine to present an interactive data board of the top-100 Canadian exploration assets in 2016 based on project expenditures. NRCan contributed, geographically by province and territory,…
There’s more than meets the eye in NWT and Nunavut
VANCOUVER — Beneath the glacier-scoured lakes and barren tundra of the Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) and Nunavut is a collection of disparate Archean- to Proterozoic-aged crust that were stitched together along…
PDAC 2017: Copper, zinc looking good for 2017
To ease in to the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada annual convention in Toronto in early March, it’s always a good idea to take in the commodity talks on…
TSX slips as oil price sinks, March 6-10
The S&P/TSX Composite Index dipped 0.7% to close at 15,506.68, as oil and gold prices declined. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index dropped 4.7% to 64.46, while the S&P/TSX Global Gold…
NexGen tops 300M lb uranium at Arrow in Athabasca
VANCOUVER — NexGen Energy (TSX: NXE; US-OTC: NXGEF) has pushed the resource at its wholly owned Rook I property in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca basin, past the 300 million lb. contained U3O8 mark…
Saskatchewan the best place to invest, Fraser Institute says
Saskatchewan takes the crown as the most attractive jurisdiction for investment in the Fraser Institute’s annual Survey of Mining Companies 2016, moving up from second place in 2015, and dethroning Western…
Exclusive interview: Lukas Lundin on the state of the mining industry
VANCOUVER — Lukas Lundin, chairman of the Lundin Group of Companies, sat down with The Northern Miner via Skype from Switzerland for an in-depth discussion on the current state of…
From teen prospector to PDAC president
Glenn Mullan, president and CEO of Golden Valley Mines (TSXV: GZZ) and chairman of Abitibi Royalties (TSXV: RZZ), has spent the last 40 years working in the mining industry. He…
Japanese utility Tepco ends contract, Cameco to pursue legal rights
In a hastily convened February conference call, CEO Tim Gitzel of Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) vowed he would “vigorously pursue remedies to recover value for our shareholders and other…
Uranium snapshot: six juniors of interest
With uranium oxide prices making a rebound over the last two months after hitting 12-year lows, uranium juniors are seeing renewed interest from investors. Here are six such companies worth…