Central American and Caribbean Snapshot
Four intrepid juniors on the hunt for riches in the middle Americas: ASCENDANT RESOURCES Toronto-based junior Ascendant Resources (TSXV: ASND) picked up the venerable El…
Volume 103 Number 6 March 20 – April 2, 2017
PDAC 2017: Copper, zinc looking good for 2017
To ease in to the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada annual convention in Toronto in early March, it’s always a good idea to take…
PDAC 2017: What’s wrong with hedging?
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) pioneered gold hedging more than two decades ago, but the company endured sharp criticism when the strategy became a…
TSX Venture slips, March 6-10
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index shed 19.27 points to an 818.46-point close, as spot gold prices tumbled US$30.17, or 2.4%, to US$1,204.64 per oz., and…
US markets slide, March 6-10
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 20,902.98, down 0.5%, while the S&P 500 Index fell 0.4% to 2,372.60. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced…
TSX slips as oil price sinks, March 6-10
The S&P/TSX Composite Index dipped 0.7% to close at 15,506.68, as oil and gold prices declined. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index dropped 4.7% to 64.46,…
Everton kicks off drill program in the DR
Two of the three concessions Everton Resources (TSXV: EVR) has in the Dominican Republic are next to the huge Pueblo Viejo open-pit gold mine, jointly…
Ability to replenish reserves is miners’ top risk, KPMG says
The ability to access and replace reserves, including access to new projects, was the top perceived risk in the industry in 2016, moving up from…
Prefontaine hopes to duplicate La India success at Cerro Quema
As president and CEO of Grayd Resource, geologist Marc Prefontaine and his team discovered the La India gold deposit, 200 km east of Hermosillo in…
Agnico Eagle buys 15% of GoldQuest for $23M
GoldQuest Mining (TSXV: GQC) shares got a welcome boost after reports that Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) is buying 15% of the company…
PDAC 2017: Randgold’s Bristow on managing gold price cyclicality
Randgold Resources’ (LSE: RRS; NASDAQ: GOLD) chief executive Mark Bristow gave a talk on how to create and protect shareholder value in gold mining during…
NexGen tops 300M lb uranium at Arrow in Athabasca
VANCOUVER — NexGen Energy (TSX: NXE; US-OTC: NXGEF) has pushed the resource at its wholly owned Rook I property in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca basin, past the 300…