Australia’s largest gold producer, Newcrest Mining (ASX: NCM), is moving to increase its stake in the Havieron gold-copper project that it is developing with Greatland Gold (AIM:GGP) in the Paterson…
The resource expansion drill program completed at the Brucejack mine has returned high grade gold for Pretium Resources (TSX:PVG; NYSE:PVG). This is the first expansion drilling project since the mine…
With rising Covid-19 infections, a new and more infectious variant of the virus, and a vaccination rollout slower than most would like, along with the sickening scenes from Washington, D.C….
Pretium Resources’ (TSX: PVG; NYSE: PVG) 25,350-metre 2020 exploration program has led to the discovery of a new zone of epithermal-style gold mineralization, the Hanging Glacier zone. The gold producer…
Canada’s Seabridge Gold (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SA) is buying Pretium Resources’ (NYSE: PVG) Snowfield property in northwest British Columbia for $100 million in cash, a 1.5% net smelter royalty related to all…
This episode features a keynote speech by Pretium Resources president and CEO Joe Ovsenek at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference in Toronto. Ovsenek discusses the history…
The flurry of M&A transactions last year brought a much-awaited consolidation of the global gold sector. It also brought significant changes to the Canadian mining landscape: Newmont’s (NYSE: NEM) takeover…
The natural endowment of British Columbia, the Yukon and Northwest Territories continues to drive mineral exploration and development. Here is a sample of eight companies active in the region. American…
In 2011, Pretium Resources (TSX: PVG; NYSE: PVG) shares skyrocketed on some of the most extraordinary gold and silver grades ever reported in B.C.’s Golden Triangle. An early assay from…
Eskay Creek in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle was at one time the world’s highest-grade gold mine before Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) finally shut it down in 2008 due…
Since becoming president and CEO of Ascot Resources (TSXV: AOT; US-OTC: AOTVF) in October 2017, Derek White has consolidated gold properties in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle with the acquisitions of…
The most recent Annual Survey of Mining Companies by the Fraser Institute ranked British Columbia seventh among Canadian mining jurisdictions. But no other province or territory has had two new…