North of 60 Mining News - The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North

Though plummeting metals prices and fading investor confidence have hammered the mining sector this year, the Northwest Mining Association's 114th annual meeting in Reno, Nevada, Dec. 1 - 5 drew more than 2,000 attendees, a crowd the yearly gathering has not seen in more than a decade.

Miners and others attending the NWMA meeting said the economy and its impact on the mining industry is their p...