Mining’s slow march towards workforce diversity
VANCOUVER — Glencore Xstrata (LSE: GLEN) will appoint a woman to its board by year-end, a move that will end its stance as the only British blue-chip company with an all-male board.
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True Gold making Karma a reality in Burkina Faso
True Gold Mining (TSXV:TGM) is gaining market momentum, as it gears up to build its flagship Karma gold mine project in north–central Burkina Faso.
Rio Alto to buy Sulliden Gold for $300M
Gold producer Rio Alto Mining (TSX: RIO; NYSE: RIOM) is acquiring developer Sulliden Gold (TSX: SUE, US-OTC: SDDDF) in a friendly $300-million, all-share deal to create a new mid-tier gold firm with low-cost operations in Peru.
Dominion Diamond’s sparkling start in fiscal 2015
Toronto-based Dominion Diamond (TSX: DDC; NYSE: DDC) reported a strong operational start to the year, with higher-than-expected diamond production, sales and average prices for its first quarter of fiscal 2015.
Fewer mining dollars spent and earned in BC
VANCOUVER — In its forty-sixth annual mining industry survey, PwC’s Digging Deep: The Mining Industry in British Columbia 2013 reflects a difficult year for the sector across all commodities.
RTG Mining has big plans in the Philippines
The former management team of CGA Mining, which redeveloped and opened the Masbate gold mine in the Philippines and then merged last year with B2 Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-MKT: BTG) in a deal worth US$1.1 billion, is hoping to repeat some of that…
Arianne Phosphate grows Lac Paul
Arianne Phosphate (TSXV: DAN; US-OTC: DRRSF) says one of the world’s largest greenfield phosphate-rock projects has just gotten bigger, with near-surface inferred resources added from the Lac à Paul deposit’s Nicole zone in…
Barrick’s Arturo project gets go ahead from BLM
It took nearly five years, but the Bureau of Land Management has issued a positive record of decision (ROD) on the final environmental impact statement (EIS) allowing Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) to restart and expand a past-producing…
Resource grows at Continental’s Buritic in Colombia
Continental Gold (TSX: CNL; US-OTC: CGOOF) has updated the resource estimate for the two major vein systems at its Buritica gold project in Colombia. Both systems are characterized by multiple, steeply dipping veins and broader, more…
Balmoral shares surge on Bug Lake results
Shares of Balmoral Resources (TSX: BAR; US-OTC: BALMF) surged 21% to $1.04, with 4.6 million shares trading hands after the junior reported an intercept of 1,138 grams gold per tonne over 4.9 metres, including 9,710 grams gold over 0.57 metre…
Tahoe posts profitable Q1
After reaching commercial production on Jan. 14, the Escobal silver mine in Guatemala enjoyed a profitable first quarter, Tahoe Resources (TSX: THO; NYSE: TAHO) reports.
[Update] Edgewater moves to consolidate Enchi project
VANCOUVER — Eight months ago junior Edgewater Exploration (TSXV: EDW) was hit with a permitting delay at its flagship Corcoesto gold project 35 km due southwest of the port city of La Coruna in Spain. Edgewater had been hoping to…