Haywood lifts gold price forecasts
Haywood Securities has raised its gold price forecast for the second half of 2020 from US$1,650 per oz. to US$1,800 per ounce. Next year, the broker-dealer predicts gold will average…
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US government to assess Twin Metals mine proposal
Antofagasta’s (LSE: ANTO) Twin Metals Minnesota has received formal notice that its planned copper-nickel-cobalt-platinum metals mine will be assessed through a federal environmental review. The U.S. government’s Bureau of Land…
JV Article: Transforming the global market for scandium
Imperial Mining Group is developing a potential new and reliable source of scandium that could disrupt current markets and expand the industrial uptake of this remarkable metal Scandium is classed…
Rubicon rebrands as Battle North Gold
Battle North Gold (TSX: BNAU; US-OTC: BNAUF), previously Rubicon Minerals, has released an updated resource estimate for its flagship Bateman gold project, formerly known as Phoenix, which grows the measured…
Eric Sprott increases stake in Stratabound Minerals
Billionaire mining investor Eric Sprott has acquired 3 million common shares of Stratabound Minerals (TSXV: SB) at a price of 5¢ per share. The acquisition was conducted through Jerritt Canyon…
Sabina expands drill program at Back River
Sabina Gold & Silver (TSX: SBB; US-OTC: SGSVF) has returned to work at its Back River gold project in Nunavut, with an expanded 8,500-metre drill program planned at the 8-km-long…
Barrick, Japan Gold step up exploration
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) and Japan Gold (TSX-V: JG) have kicked off geophysical-gravity surveys in the Asian country’s Hokusatsu Region, as part of a joint effort to uncover…
GoviEx to appeal cancelled uranium license in Zambia
GoviEx Uranium (TSX-V: GXU) says it will appeal Zambia’s decision to terminate its Chirundu mining license. The company acquired the permit in 2017 from African Energy Resources, and it includes…
MINING.COM’s top 50 mining companies
MINING.COM’s ranking of the world’s 50 largest mining companies based on market value shows an industry clawing back most of the Covid-19 related losses by the end of the second…
ScoZinc plans low-cost, open-pit zinc mine near Halifax
ScoZinc Mining (TSXV: SZM) has released the results of a preliminary feasibility study (PFS) on its wholly owned and permitted Scotia mine project, 62 km northeast of Halifax. The study…
79North taps into Suriname’s Guiana Shield
Exploration geologist Jon North was attending Mille Miglia – the annual re-enactment of the classic car race from Brescia in the foothills of the Italian Alps to Rome and back…
JV Article: Monarch Gold focused on producing 100-200,000 ounces of gold annually
For emerging Canadian gold mining company Monarch Gold Corporation (TSX: MQR), 2020 has been anything but a slow period. While other sectors in the mining industry have seen their operations…