Aurania sees shares jump, identifies target in Ecuador
Shares of Aurania Resources (TSXV: ARU) skyrocketed in the first week of January after a senior analyst at The Casey Report recommended to his subscribers that they buy the junior…
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Goldcorp’s Luis Canepari on automation, AI, innovation
VANCOUVER — The Northern Miner sat down with Luis Canepari, Goldcorp’s (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) vice-president of technology, to talk about his company’s approach to innovation and technology. Below is an…
Monarques to acquire gold properties from Agnico
Monarques Gold (TSXV: MQR; US-OTC: MRQRF) is set to acquire the McKenzie Break and Swanson gold properties from Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM). The agreement brings Monarques’ Quebec…
Vanadium a ‘metal to watch’ in 2018, Hallgarten’s Ecclestone says
Prices for vanadium — a minor metal traditionally used to strengthen steel, and more recently a key component in new battery technology that could store electricity from solar and wind…
Editorial: The coming US mining renaissance
While for much of past twenty years there has been a slow withering of the mining industry in the U.S., with the notable exceptions of a few bright spots such…
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 86: Holodecks, AI and geostatistics ft. Goldcorp
Subscribe, rate and follow us on SoundCloud, iTunes, YouTube, Google Play, Stitcher or RSS Feed! Happy New Year from The Northern Miner team and welcome to 2018! Let’s take a look at mining and metals to start…
Letter to the editor: A better suggestion for parkland in northern Manitoba
The Manitoba Saskatchewan Prospectors and Developers Association (MSPDA) takes the strong view that while it agrees with Stephen Fletcher’s view that a creating a new national park on Manitoba’s Nickel…
TSX Venture in the black, Dec. 27-29
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index gained 40.42 points to a 850.72-point close, as spot gold prices gained US$28.64 to US$1,302.8 per oz. gold on a weakening U.S. dollar. Comex copper…
TSX posts marginal gains, Dec. 27-29
Canada’s benchmark index rose 0.27% on a shortened trading week to 16,209.10.The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index gained 0.82% to 72.31 while the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index budged slightly, moving from…
US markets slip between Christmas and New Year’s
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 25% and the S&P 500 nearly 20% in 2017. But the shortened trading week between Christmas and New Year’s saw both moving in the…
Brio advances Santa Luz in Brazil
Brio Gold (TSX: BRIO) has finished a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its C1 underground resource at its flagship Santa Luz project in Bahia State, Brazil, adding half a…
BMO’s Hamilton on industrial and commodity outlook
VANCOUVER — Colin Hamilton is the managing director of commodities research at BMO Capital Markets based in London, England. He was previously head of commodities research at Macquarie Group in Australia,…