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Letter to the editor: SEG and IQ
Your report on the SEG conference is a service to the science and practice of geology and its role in the discovery of ore bodies.
Golden Star rises on resource update, Q3 earnings
Shares of Golden Star Resources (TSX: GSC; AMEX: GSS) have gained some shine after the miner posted a third-quarter earnings beat followed by a resource update at its Wassa gold mine in Ghana.
Metals, mining and money markets
Spot pricesCourtesy of ScotiabankTuesday, November 5, 2013Precious MetalsPrice…
Kaminak’s Coffee takes shape
DAWSON CITY, YUKON — Three years ago, the first hole drilled into Kaminak Gold’s (TSXV: KAM; US-OTC: KMKGF) Coffee project returned 17.1 grams gold per tonne over 15 metres. Two months later a slew of solid drill results had defined…
Brixton poised to solve geological puzzle at Thorn
ATLIN, B.C. — It’s been a tough time for juniors trying to fund grassroots exploration, but it helps when high-profile investors take notice and decide to support a project. And that’s been the case for…
Capstone’s Minto keeps on growing
MINTO LANDING, YUKON — When the Minto mine started up in 2007 it was an open-pit copper-gold-silver operation with a projected four-year mine life and a 1,600-tonne-per-day throughput. But Sherwood Copper knew the potential at Minto was…
Suncor, Total and Teck green-light $14B Fort Hills oilsands megaproject
Suncor Energy (TSX: SU; NYSE: SU) and its partners Total E&P Canada Ltd. (a subsidiary of Paris-based Total (NYSE: TOT) and Teck Resources (TSX: TCK.B; NYSE: TCK) are proceeding with the Fort Hills oilsands mine project in Alberta’s…
Editorial: Is Pretium petering out?
The Pretium saga brings to mind the old joke about the ever-optimistic geologist seeing that the glass is half full, while the mining engineer sees only that the glass should be reduced in size by 50%.
The battle continues at Taseko’s New Prosperity
VANCOUVER — The permitting saga has lasted nearly four years for B.C.-based copper producer Taseko Mines (TSX: TKO; NYSE-MKT: TGB) and its New Prosperity copper-gold project, 125 km southwest of Williams Lake, but the proposed…
TSX Venture Exchange, Oct. 28 – Nov. 1
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index took a breather during the trading sessions after posting big gains over the past three weeks, with falling commodity prices contributing to decrease of 1.9%, or 18.25 points, en route to a 955.33-point…
Toronto Stock Exchange, Oct. 28 – Nov. 1
The S&P/TSX Composite Index was down 65 points to 13,337.46 for the period, with a weak gold sector contributing to the slump.