American Pacific acquires Madison with Rio Tinto as partner
For a junior exploration company with a market capitalization of $3 million, the prospect of acquiring a gold project with a past producing mine in the U.S., where Rio Tinto…
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Fiore grows resource, completes study at Gold Rock
Fiore Gold (TSXV: F; US-OTC: FIOGF) has completed a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Gold Rock project in Nevada and provided an updated mineral resource estimate and a base…
S&P Global lowers GDP, metals price forecasts
S&P Global Ratings has cut its global GDP growth forecast for 2020 to 0.4%. Earlier this month, it lowered its GDP growth forecast for China to 2.9% from its previous…
Gold climbs to highest level since 2012
The gold price rallied again on Thursday, as investors sought a store of value after the Fed said it was pumping an additional US$2.3 trillion in the US economy to…
Russia slams Trump’s order to mine Moon, asteroids
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s order that encourages citizens to mine the moon and other celestial bodies for commercial purposes. The government body likened the…
Rio Tinto maintains dividend, discloses taxes
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) Chairman Simon Thompson told shareholders the company will proceed with a dividend payment announced in February of $2.31 per share, or $3.7 billion, and…
Editorial: Sinking in a sea of red
The economic fallout from COVID-19 is mounting sharply. Last week, unemployment claims in the United States hit a record 6.6 million, up from 3.3 million the previous week, and the…
Alberta lithium startups aim to ease transition to clean energy economy
Not so long ago, in situ oilsands production was little more than a dream in the eye of Alberta’s petroleum producers. Years of government and industry-funded research cracked that nut…
Argonaut Gold to merge with Alio Gold in all-share deal
Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR) and Alio Gold (TSX: ALO; NYSE-A: ALO) announced a friendly all-share at-market merger that will create a larger company with a production base of over 235,000…
Moody’s slashes growth forecasts
In November, Moody’s Investors Service forecast G-20 economies in 2020 would grow by 2.6%, but now estimates real GDP will contract by 0.5%, followed by a pick-up to 3.2% in…
Dunnedin Ventures to become Kodiak Copper
Publicly traded Kodiak Copper (TSXV: KDK), a portfolio company of the Discovery Group that was formerly Dunnedin Ventures (TSXV: DVI), will focus on copper porphyry exploration in Canada and the United States. The…
‘Time to load up’ on gold equities, Haywood says
With gold breaking through US$1,600 per oz. – “a key long-term resistance zone” – analysts at Haywood Securities recommend “increasing tactical exposure to gold and gold miners” and “particularly juniors.”…