TSX moves higher, Sept. 16-20: Kirkland Lake, Franco-Nevada, Endeavour Mining, Barrick
The S&P/TSX Composite Index advanced 1.3% to close at 16,899.69. Spot gold finished the trading week at US$1516.70 per oz., up US$28.80 per ounce. The…
Volume 105 Number 20 September 30 – October 13, 2019
Editorial: Young people unite against climate change
Hundreds of thousands of youth around the globe protested last week against government and corporate inaction on the climate crisis. They congregated in cities on…
Falco deal with Glencore key to Horne 5 development
Falco Resources’ (TSXV: FPC) Horne 5 project contains 7 million oz. gold. It might contain just as many questions. Perhaps the biggest one is whether…
TSX Venture edges higher, Sept. 16-20: Great Bear, Amex Exploration, Aurania, Equinox
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index rose 0.2% to 590.45 during the trading week. Shares of Great Bear Resources rose 4.7% to $8.99. On Sept. 3,…
Osisko launches incubator, bids for Barkerville
Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX: OR; NYSE: OR) has created a project development platform called North Spirit Discovery Group, and it hopes the resource development and…
Metals Commentary: China’s electric vehicle slowdown could dampen cobalt prices
China’s electric vehicle (EV) sales have declined year-over-year for the second straight month, on the heels of uncharacteristically slow growth this spring, indicating that contractions…
Probe Metals hikes resource estimate
Probe Metals (TSXV: PRB; US-OTC: PROBF) has released an updated resource estimate for its Val-d’Or East project in Quebec, 25 km east of Val-d’Or and…
Monarch drills visible gold at Fayolle project in Quebec
The latest resource estimate for Monarch Gold’s (TSX: MQR; US-OTC: MRQRF) newly acquired Fayolle gold project in Quebec confirms the deposit’s high-grade, near-surface potential. Fayolle’s…
Stornoway’s creditors keep Renard on life support
Stornoway Diamond (TSX: SWY) and its creditors reached a deal that will see the Renard diamond mine operate during corporate restructuring, after the company’s failure…
Quebec Snapshot: Eight companies to watch
Mining companies spend an average of $8.5 billion a year in Quebec, and the industry generates $962 million annually for the provincial government, excluding corporate…
Bell Copper chases payoff from Perseverance
Tim Marsh likes to say that it took 150 drill holes to hit the high-grade core of the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold porphyry deposit that…
Argentina’s future uncertain ahead of elections
Three years ago, foreign investors in Argentina could hardly believe their luck. Within weeks of taking office in December 2015, President Mauricio Macri rapidly dismantled…