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Agnico Eagle Mines and Yamana Gold's Canadian Malartic gold mine in Quebec. Osisko Gold Royalties holds a 5% net smelter return royalty on the mine. Credit: Agnico Eagle Mines

Osisko Gold Royalties comes out strong

VANCOUVER — Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX: OR; US-OTC: OKSKF) is one to watch in the realm of corporate finance. The company is a spin-out from Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) and Yamana Gold’s (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY)…


Drill rigs earlier this year at NioGold Mining's Marban gold project in Quebec.  Source: NioGold Mining

The Abitibi belt keeps giving

VANCOUVER — Only a true world-class gold camp reveals new ounces when a sector-wide downturn has quieted so many drills. As such, two estimates offering resource ounces is a good reminder that the Abitibi greenstone belt is one such camp.


Aurizon makes headway in Quebec

Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T, AZK-X) began September with a bang. On the same day it released higher-grade intercepts from its Hosco West and Heva deposits — part of the company’s feasibility-stage Joanna gold project, 20 km east of…


GeoMega’s Montviel is no longer a secret

“The secret will be out with the initial resource estimate,” said GeoMega’s (GMA-V) president Simon Britt, referring to the potential at the company’s Montviel carbonatite rare earth elements (REE) property in Abitibi, Que.



Market downturn hits juniors looking for capital

A faltering U.S. economic recovery, a potential economic cool down in China caused by inflationary pressures and a Greek debt crisis that simply refuses to go away have all translated into a tough start to the year for the junior resource…






Companies (May 18, 1998)

Abacus MineralsAber ResourcesAdrian ResourcesAlberta EnergyAnglo AmericanAnglogoldAshanti GoldfieldsAshton Mining of CanadaAur ResourcesAurado ExplorationAurizon MinesBarrick GoldBattle Mountain Canad…