Gold

Workers at Torex Gold's core shack at the El Limon Guajes project in Mexico. Credit: Torex Gold

Kidnappings highlight miners’ security risks

In the first four months of this year alone, kidnapping incidents have touched Torex Gold Resources (TSX: TGX; US-OTC: TORXF) and Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) in Mexico’s Guerrero state, and Pan African Minerals’ Tambao manganese…



U.S. stocks end mixed, May 18-22

Wall Street closed mixed ahead of the Memorial Day holiday, as the Federal Reserve said it would likely raise interest rates this year, if the economy continued to improve. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.2% to 18,232.02, while the…



The processing plant at Imperial Metals' Red Chris copper-gold mine in northwestern British Columbia, 80 km south of Dease Lake. Credit: Imperial Metals.

Red Chris delay sends Imperial back to the market

In danger of breaking a loan covenant because of a slow ramp-up at its Red Chris copper-gold mine in northwestern B.C., Imperial Metals (TSX: III; US-OTC: IPMLF) is turning once again to its largest shareholders for financial help.


Midway Gold's Pan gold mine in White Pine County, 29 km southeast of Eureka, Nevada.  Credit: Midway Gold

Midway runs into trouble at Pan mine

Midway Gold (TSX: MDW; NYSE-MKT: MDW) has hit a rough patch, less than two months after it initiated production at its Pan gold heap-leach mine in Nevada.


Sabina Gold & Silver's Back River gold project is near Bathurst Inlet in Nunavut. Credit: Sabina Gold & Silver

Sabina focuses on optionality at Back River

A feasibility study for Sabina Gold & Silver’s (TSX: SBB; US-OTC: SGSVF) Back River gold project in Nunavut shows the project could be a large, low-cost producer that could be scaled down in order to lower capital requirements.


A box cut under construction for the first access declines to the planned underground copper mine at Kamoa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ivanhoe Mines has sold almost half its stake in the project to Zijin Mining Group. Credit: Ivanhoe Mines

China’s Zijin Mining buys into Barrick, Ivanhoe assets

Just a week after Vale (NYSE: VALE) unveiled a memorandum of understanding with one of China’s largest commercial banks for financing arrangements worth up to US$4 billion, Zijin Mining Group of southern Fujian province has agreed to…




Atico Mining's El Roble copper-gold mine in Colombia, 145 km east of Medellin. Credit: Atico Mining

Atico Mining’s confidence in El Roble grows

Atico Mining’s (TSXV: ATY; US-OTC: ATCMF) El Roble underground mine is the only copper-gold volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit in production today in Colombia and the Vancouver-based junior producer is becoming more confident by…


A worker watches the first load of concentrate from Hudbay Minerals' Constancia copper-moly-gold-silver mine leave for China from Peru. Credit: Hudbay Minerals

Hudbay hits commercial production at Constancia

Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) has stayed on course with its ambitious growth plans over the last five years, bringing online three new mines, with the latest being the large Constancia copper-molybdenum-gold-silver mine in Peru.


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