Concerns over a stalemate in Greece’s debt talks and improving economic data in the U.S. that could accelerate interest rates kept the lid on U.S. equities during the trading week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.3% to finish…
VANCOUVER — Despite a rough three-year run in precious metal prices, Great Panther Silver (TSX: GPR; NYSE-MKT: GPL) is flying high on the back of a stellar first quarter and a pair of acquisitions that appear to cement a promising project…
Two months ago, Ian Ball, the president of Abitibi Royalties (TSXV: RZZ; US-OTC: ATBYF), called up the CEO of a junior exploration company, who had staked ground with interesting mineralization, 1.6 km away from Barrick Gold’s Cortez gold…
It’s no secret that the mining industry is behind the curve when it comes to hiring women and appointing female board members. What will it take to get them onboard? Although the last couple of years have seen some increase in women…
There aren’t many companies in the mining sector these days that can pay off large chunks of debt from operating cash flow and embark on sizable acquisitions at the same time. But OceanaGold (TSX: OGC) is one of them.
As a lawyer with over 20 years of experience in corporate law and as general counsel for an investment firm, Lisa Davis was used to working with more men than women. But it wasn’t until five years ago when she joined PearTree Securities…
As a woman geologist for the last 25 years, I am writing in response to the commentary “Gender diversity and ‘Women Who Rock’” (T.N.M., May 18–24, 2015). I know some of the women in the Women in Mining (WIM) group…
VANCOUVER — After delaying its Mengapur iron project in the Pahang state of Malaysia in February, Monument Mining (TSXV: MMY) is bracing for the long downturn by improving its gold production and slashing corporate costs.
VANCOUVER — Nevada Copper (TSX: NCU) has spent the past three years de-risking its Pumpkin Hollow copper project, 13 km southeast of Yerington, Nev., and the result has been one of the more intriguing undeveloped copper prospects not…
Over the last three years, SolGold (LSE: SOLG) has earned an 85% stake in the Cascabel copper-gold-silver deposit in northern Ecuador, and the Brisbane-based company says it is on track to complete its first resource estimate on the early stage…
BitGold (TSXV: XAU), which offers a platform for savings and payments in gold, listed on the TSX Venture Exchange on May 13 at 90¢ per share, and since then the shares have traded as high as $8 apiece. The start-up shook up the markets…
Canada’s benchmark stock index fell below 15,000 for the first time since mid-May, driven lower by concerns about how the Greek debt crisis will affect the eurozone, and strong jobs data in the U.S. that has caused many to believe the Fed…
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