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Spotlight: Projects to watch in 2026 – Part 2

Continuing price volatility with rare earths and copper, high costs, disputes over consultation and executive shakeups have some major projects facing uncertainty […]

Northern Miner Staff | December 4, 2025 | 1:02 pm

Interactive: Global uranium demand

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Anthony Vaccaro, with files from Ali Ravaghi | Creative design: James Alafriz | November 14, 2025 | 9:00 am

Freeport keeps Grasberg shut amid rescue operations

The company continues its efforts to rescue seven workers trapped…

Staff Writer | September 12, 2025 | 9:09 am

Opinion: 2025 – Halfway through the blockbuster decade

This has been some decade and we’re only halfway through! …

James Cooper | July 29, 2025 | 10:26 am

TMC shares surge on high-grade alloy production

The company produced high-grade nickel-copper-cobalt alloy and manganese silicate at…

Staff Writer | February 19, 2025 | 9:10 am

The Northern Miner’s top 10 most clicked stories of 2023

As we start 2024, The Northern Miner takes a look back at the top 10 most-clicked stories on our website in 2023. No. 1: […]

Blair McBride | January 2, 2024 | 4:23 pm

Analysis: Gold set for further record prices in 2024 and 2025

Gold prices have been setting annual records for the past three years. They are expected to set further records in 2024 and […]

Jeffrey M. Christian | December 26, 2023 | 1:29 pm

Fraser Institute ranks global mining with 9% of survey

An annual report that may affect billions of dollars in investment decisions has a weak process to rank countries, provinces and states […]

Colin McClelland | November 20, 2023 | 8:00 am

JV Article: Steppe Gold passes 100,000 oz mark, fully funded for Phase II

In just three years, production at home-grown Mongolian miner Steppe Gold’s (TSX: STGO; US-OTC: STPGF) ATO mine has surpassed the 100,000 oz. gold […]

Northern Miner Staff | October 31, 2023 | 9:12 am

Odds ‘n’ Sods: Isolation

i·so·la·tion /ˌīsəˈlāSHən/ noun “the isolation of older people” Every geologist has experienced extreme isolation at some point. That crystalline moment when they […]

Ralph Rushton | October 9, 2023 | 11:14 am