K9 Gold Corp. is pleased to update the 2020 exploration program fRead full newsRead More
Earlier this month, Madagascar's government suspended a controversial gold-mining operation in Vohilava commune in the country's southeast. Many local people welcomed the news, which comes after years of tension over the project's environmental and economic impact and a recent demonstration against it. In early September, local people who oppose the project destroyed company equipment, throwing [....Read More
/PRNewswire/ -- Over the last decade, global demand for gold has increased constantly. Worldwide gold demand amounted to 4,356 metric tons in 2019. Demand has...Read full newsRead More
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Earnings season has taken a back seat to some major news the last few days. The U.S election and the news of a potential coronavirus vaccine have been front and centre. These events are definitely big market movers, and TSX stocks had a massive rally as a result.The presidential election is crucial, as it will shape how North American markets perform over the next four years. So too is a prom...Read More
Broader stock markets changed course on the vaccine news yesterday. While TSX stocks at large gained big, the top-gainer sectors of 2020 like tech and mining tumbled on November 9. But what should long-term investors do?ShopifyShopify (TSX:SHOP)(NYSE:SHOP) is unarguably one of the biggest winners of the coronavirus pandemic. Probably that’s why investors turned cautious and felt like booking...Read More
Could the pandemic soon be over? That was the mood in the markets Monday morning. With Pfizer (up 10%) trumpeting 90% efficacy in trials of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, the TSX Composite Index shot up 1.56% before noon. Investors may wish to temper their expectations, however. While the rollout of a workable vaccine signals the end of the pandemic, the effects of the crisis will continue to wei...Read More
The gold price is similar to this point yesterday, at US$1,877 an ounce on the spot market.US president Donald Trump is continuing to say he will win the election, which was held last week and widely considered won by rival Joe Biden.Independence Gold (TSXV: IGO) was a standout in Toronto, on reporting 67.6m averaging 3.63g/t gold and 132.83g/t silver from 51m at its 3Ts project in British Columbi...Read More
Arrow Minerals Ltd (ASX: AMD), as a result of its 2019 merger with Boromo Gold, is an emerging gold exploration company, with about a $10 million market cap, advancing its projects in Burkina Faso and Western Australia, two of the most prospective and fast-growing geological environments in the world. We learned from Howard Golden, Managing Director of Arrow Minerals, that with the discovery over...Read More
It's day 242 of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday Pfizer said it has a vaccine for the dreaded malady that has a 90% effective rate and is in Phase 3 trials.The stock market launched. Or I should say those stocks that had been big winners sold off and those that were losers jumped - but still not high enough to be year-to-date winners.Like Bob Dylan once wrote, "The slow one now will later be fast,...Read More
Canada's Denison Mines (TSX: DML) is ready to resume the formal environmental assessment (EA) process for its 90%-owned Wheeler River project in Saskatchewan, which is poised to be the country's first in-situ recovery uranium mine.Denison had paused the process in March, due to restrictions related to Covid-19 measures. President and chief executive David Cates said the company would give formal n...Read More
First Cobalt (TSXV: FCC) is planning to alter its prior arrangement with global miner Glencore (LSE: GLEN) and sign a a long-term feed purchase contract instead of the original tolling contract. First Cobalt owns North America's only permitted cobalt refinery.Securing feed material under a long-term cobalt hydroxide purchase contract would allow its refinery in Ontario to be "an active market par...Read More
Precious gemstones miner Gemfields Group (LSE: GEM; JSE: GML) says it is unable to say when it might be able to host its next auction, or generate meaningful revenue from sales, due to the "severe" impact of Covid-19 restrictions.The company, which returned to the London Stock Exchange's market for juniors this year, has only been able to host one auction so far in 2020. Held in February in Lusak...Read More
This week's episode features the launch of The Northern Miner's Global Mining Symposium virtual mining conference, with opening remarks by group publisher Anthony Vaccaro. As well, the news section tackles the latest developments on the trade tensions between Australia and China.All this and more with online editor and host Adrian Pocobelli.Music Credits:"Rattlesnake Railroad", "Big Western Sky",...Read More
Explorer and developer Bluejay Mining (LSE: JAY) has inked a joint venture and earn-in agreement with Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) to advance the Enonkoski nickel project, in Finland.The deal could see Rio progressively earn up to a 75% interest in the project by injecting US$20 million into it either by covering expenses or paying cash equivalent amounts, over three stages.In the fir...Read More
Here comes the long, cold slog through what is going to be a brutal winter.The election is behind us, for better or worse. There is talk of a truly effective vaccine from Pfizer and its partners. There are some glimmers of hope in economic data.As the Counting Crows song goes, "maybe this year will be better than the last."We're not there yet, and there is a lot more for us to go through.Now that...Read More
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Erdene Resource Development Corp. is pleased to announce operatinRead full newsRead More
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