Semafo (SMF-T) discovered the Siou gold mineralized sector in the southern sector of its Mana property in Burkina Faso during the third quarter of 2012, and has lost little time carving out an initial inferred resource. If advanced to…
VANCOUVER — The past year has been marked by operational and jurisdictional challenges for Toronto-based producer Centerra Gold (CG-T) at its flagship Kumtor gold mine, 350 km southeast of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan.
Mining is an unpredictable business, but it’s still cyclical in nature. In good and bad times, the industry faces new, unique challenges, and nowhere is this more evident than in executive compensation.
In a speech on the state of the global mining industry, Ian Delaney, chairman of Sherritt International (S-T), stated that the world has entered an era of resource scarcity, in which most large-scale, high-grade deposits have already been…
Montreal-based explorer Colt Resources (GTP-V) tumbled to a 52-week low after announcing it received two experimental mining licences that allowed it to advance its tungsten and gold exploration projects in Portugal. It likely wasn’t the…
Mining has always been a risky but high-reward industry. But times have certainly changed: today, shareholders tend to ignore the high risks, and expect grandiose success regardless. But despite the risk that won’t go away, shareholders…
The fickle nature of the gold market was on show in late February, as Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs dramatically revised downward its 2013 gold price forecast on Feb. 25 to US$1,600 per oz. from US$1,810 per oz., citing the recent drop…
SAN LUIS POTOSI, MEXICO — Cylindrical brick stacks poking out of the barren hillsides can be seen from miles away. But curiously, they don’t attach at the base to any grand warehouse or factory.
VANCOUVER — A busy 12 months for Toronto-based explorer Energizer Resources (EGZ-T) culminated on Feb. 26 with the release of a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on its Molo graphite deposit, 145 km southeast of the city of Toliara in…
With junior miners struggling for financing, many market watchers have concluded that it’s a buyer’s market — but only if investors can distinguish the quality companies from the ones that won’t last another year or two.
Alder Resources’ (ALR-V) chairman Don Dudek and CEO Joseph Arengi, who years ago pursued the past-producing copper-gold-silver Rosita project in northeast Nicaragua, are hoping their perseverance will soon pay off with a big discovery.
CUSCO, PERU — With a large copper-gold-silver resource in its pocket at the Cotabambas project in the Peruvian Andes, Vancouver-based explorer Panoro Minerals (PML-V) is viewing 2013 as a turning point that could see the company…
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