Besra pushes to production in Malaysia
VANCOUVER — Besra Gold (TSX: BEZ) is laying the groundwork for its third gold mine with a feasibility study for a first stage of development at its Bau project in East Malaysia.
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Will private equity save the mining sector?
With the mining sector in its third year of a painful downturn, a collective realization is setting in that business as usual isn’t going to cut it anymore.
Editorial: Silvercorp’s short-seller headache
The murky and often frivolous world of financial blogs showed its serious side in mid-December.
TSX Venture Exchange, Dec. 16-20
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index dropped 6.29 points during the trading sessions en route to closing at 888.18. Markets reacted positively late in the trading period after the U.S. Federal Reserve opted to modestly cut its bond-buying…
Mark O’Dea’s True Gold proves Karma’s potential
VANCOUVER — True Gold Mining (US-OTC: RVREF) can turn its Karma gold project in Burkina Faso into an open-pit heap leach mine generating strong returns for just US$131.5 million, according to a new feasibility study.
Metals, mining and money markets
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U.S. markets, Dec. 16-20
American markets continued their historic march for the period, with year-end selling not yet taking hold. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 462 points to 16,221.14 points, The S&P 500 was up 41 points to 1,818.32 and the Nasdaq…
Pacific Booker’s eye-opening victory in BC’s Supreme Court
VANCOUVER — The B.C. government’s rejection of junior Pacific Booker Minerals’ (TSXV: BKM; NYSE-MKT: PBM) environmental assessment (EA) certificate at its Morrison Lake copper–gold project, located 65 km north of…
Cowen & Co.’s picks as M&A targets in gold’s next growth stage
In a report published early last month on acquisition targets that would make sense in the gold sector, Cowen and Company mining analysts Adam Graf and Misha Levental reason that major producers of the precious metal are still profitable and…
In case you missed it: the most-clicked stories of 2013
It’s been a record year of growth for www.northernminer.com, with the site now attracting more than 85,000 visits per month, and almost half a million unique visitors for all of 2013. Here is a selection of the most-clicked stories over…
Semafo huntsfor second Siou
Soil sampling at Semafo’s (TSX: SMF; US-OTC: SEMFF) Mana property in Burkina Faso has pinpointed a north-trending corridor measuring more than 14 km long and up to 4 km wide, 8 km north of the Siou deposit.
Wildcat touts manganeseupside at Hermosa in Arizona
VANCOUVER — The full picture is coming into focus for Wildcat Silver (TSXV: WS; US-OTC: WLDVF) at its flagship Hermosa polymetallic project, 80 km southeast of Tucson, Ariz. Though the company has released two preliminary economic…