McEwen buys claims near El Gallo
McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX) is acquiring claims in Mexico — 10 km from the company’s El Gallo mine in Sinaloa state — that it believes could extend the…
Gold
Panel Discussion: Harquail, de Jong, Mell and Wilton talk alternative financing
During the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto in March, PearTree Securities sponsored a panel discussion moderated by Anthony Vaccaro, publisher of The Northern Miner, to tackle…
TNM Data Miner: Digging into the data on equity financings in Canada
VANCOUVER — Welcome to a new feature at The Northern Miner where we have some fun with raw data sets relating to mining, mineral exploration, and commodity markets. To begin we’ll be…
TSX Venture approaches 52-week high, April 25-29
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index built on its three-month run during trading, as it gained 2.8%, or 18.69 points, en route to a 674.87-point weekly close. Gains were underpinned by improving commodity…
Wall Street declines, April 25–29
U.S. stocks fell as oil and gold prices rose higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index both fell 1.3% to 17,773.64 and 2,065.30. The Nasdaq Composite…
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 10: Aloha! CIM conference and earnings season
Join us as we bid Lesley a groovy week-long vacation in Hawaii; aloha! Matt digs into a flurry of quarterly earnings reports, including Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) and Barrick Gold…
Avnel sees Kalana as open pit mine
Howard Miller, executive chairman and CEO of Avnel Gold Mining (TSX: AVK), has had his fair share of success over the last 35 years. As a founding director of Nelson Resources, he…
Argonaut boosts San Agustin’s economics
Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR) shares gained 11% after an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the San Agustin gold-silver project in Mexico cut initial cost estimates 36% and improved returns. The…
Sirios rethinks Cheechoo, wins Goldcorp’s interest
VANCOUVER — Explorer Sirios Resources (TSXV: SOI; US-OTC: SIREF) has been toiling away for years in relative obscurity at its flagship Cheechoo gold project, 320 km north of Matagami, Que., but is gaining…
Shanghai Gold Exchange launches benchmark price
The following is an edited release from the London-headquartered World Gold Council. For more information, please visit www.gold.org. A year and half after it was established in September 2014, the…
Barrick posts Q1 loss
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) swung into the red in the first quarter on the back of declining production due to asset sales in the second half of 2015…
Roxgold reports maiden resource on Bagassi South’s QV1 target
Roxgold (TSXV: ROG; US-OTC: ROGFF) expects to become a junior producer in June when it pours the first gold from its Yaramoko project in Burkina Faso. In the meantime, the…