Avanti Gold’s Misisi project celebrates 10 years on CSE
Investors and Avanti Gold (CSE: AGC; US-OTC: AVTGF) management this week marked 10 years of its Misisi project being held by a succession of Canadian listed entities. Misisi is…
Precious Metals
Silver stockpile drawdown risk is misunderstood
Silver inventories at the world’s two largest bullion trading hubs have fallen sharply from pandemic-era peaks, underscoring a sustained drawdown in visible stocks even as definitions of available supply diverge…
Blast from the Past: Hunt brothers’ fateful silver gamble
Texas oil heirs Nelson Bunker and William Herbert, known as the Hunt brothers, in the 1970s started collecting piles of physical silver stock and futures contracts. Distrustful of paper money…
Winning essay: Gold Beneath the Stool
The Northern Miner and the World Gold Council this spring opened the GoldQuest International Student Challenge, inviting students around the globe to submit essays about gold. A panel of experts assessed submissions based on creativity, insight and originality. Sylvester Avane’s essay…
Troilus drills shallow gold, boosts Quebec satellite case
Troilus Mining (TSX: TLG; US-OTC: CHXMF) has cut shallow high-grade gold at West Rim, strengthening a potential source of mine feed as it works toward a construction decision at its…
Dakota Gold books 5.24g at Richmond Hill project
Developer Dakota Gold (NYSE-A: DC) said new drilling at its Richmond Hill oxide heap leach gold project in South Dakota delivered additional high-grade intercepts ahead of a prefeasibility study (PFS)…
Metalsource extends Silver Hill below old workings
Metalsource Mining (CSE: MSM; US-OTC: MSMMF) pushed Silver Hill mineralization about 315 metres below surface in North Carolina, as it works towards a first modern resource estimate at the past-producing…
Meteorite may have ‘rained gold’ on Australia
An ancient meteorite impact in Western Australia’s Goldfields may have redistributed gold while leaving behind rare geological evidence of one of Earth’s violent collisions. Researchers led by former Curtin University…
Court reopens KSM approval fight
The B.C. Supreme Court has sent Seabridge Gold’s (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SA) KSM project back to the province after finding it failed to consult enough with the Tsetsaut Skii km…
Eldorado nears $100M bet on Amex as Perron advances
Mid-tier producer Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO) is set to inject $20.6 million in Quebec-focused Amex Exploration (TSXV: AMX; US-OTC: AMXEF) to maintain its 27% stake in the junior, after…
Debt cycle points to stronger case for gold price: Sprott
Gold’s long-term bull market is increasingly being driven by a force larger than inflation, interest rates or geopolitical tensions: the world’s growing debt burden. That is the central thesis of…
Update doubles contained metal at West Red Lake Gold’s Rowan project
Global contained ounces at West Red Lake Gold Mines’ (TSXV: WRLG) Rowan project in northwestern Ontario grew more than 120% in a resource update, while an initial resource for the…