Why should you care? The outcome of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference is of great interest to anybody in the energy, industrial and environmental sectors, as the international community has finally reached an agreement showing global intention…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.6% to finish the trading period at 17,574.75, while the S&P 500 Index inched up 0.1% to 2,052.23, and the Philadelphia Gold & Silver Index rose 0.4% to 47.37.
As Canadian mining companies look inward, licking their wounds from the prolonged rout in commodity markets, a Russian gold producer with nine operating mines and heaps of cash has exercised warrants above market price to take a majority stake…
As we all know, mining is a cyclical business, and by all appearances we are into the stage of the commodities cycle where many of the biggest, highest-quality major mining companies, especially base metal miners, are trimming and even…
It’s not every day that a junior exploration company takes a step outside the well-trodden Carlin and Cortez districts of Nevada to look for Carlin-style gold deposits, but Pilot Gold (TSX: PLG; US-OTC: PLGTF) is proving to be the…
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 2.5%, or 12.85 points, to close at 504.28 points, weakened by collapsing oil prices and a sinking loonie.
Champion Iron (TSX: CIA; ASX: CIA) is taking advantage of the commodities crash to snatch the shuttered Bloom Lake iron ore mine in the Labrador Trough for a fraction of its previous purchase price.
VANCOUVER — As traditional forms of equity and debt finance become harder to obtain for mining companies, there’s been a rise in stream agreements, which offer miners access to cash for a percent of future by-product metal…
After some false starts in past years, an uptick in uranium prices may truly be around the corner, and this time analysts are more confident any rise will reflect a balance between demand and supply.
Premier Gold Mines’ (TSX: PG; US-OTC: PIRGF) story has of a lot of moving parts that are “moving us in the right direction,” CEO Ewan Downie says in his company’s blog.
Extremely challenging market conditions will persist for some time, but the resource sector can look forward to supply-side tightness in the medium-term, along with better metal prices, Pat Mohr, a vice-president and economics and commodity…
Canadian Oil Sands (TSX: COS) management remains on the offensive in the face of a hostile takeover bid from Suncor Energy (TSX: SU; NYSE: SU) that it calls “opportunistic and exploitive.” On Dec. 1, president and CEO Ryan Kubik…
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