The Global Mining Symposium's final panel brought together experts from across the industry to discuss the merits and shortcomings of feasibility studies and how they can be improved to add value.Moderated by Mark Nopp?(C), managing director and corporate consultant in geology at SRK Consulting, the panel featured Jo-Anne Dudley, chief executive of Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ), C...Read More
A key theme of the Global Mining Symposium is the need to advance new technologies to make mining safer, as well as more efficient and productive, which is why Northern Miner senior reporter Carl A. Williams spoke to Michelle Ash, chief executive of GEOVIA-Dassault Syst??mes, from her home in Melbourne, Australia. Dassault Syst??mes is a software company and GEOVIA is a division that is specific...Read More
US markets had closed lower on Friday as tech stocks continued to slide.In the UK, the British government is reportedly planning legislation to override key parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, ahead of an October 15 deadline to strike a free-trade agreement with the European Union.The gold price was up slightly on the spot market to about US$1,938 an ounce at the time of writing.Copper had g...Read More
Are you worried about the looming recession and the resulting stock market crash? There are many indicators that the economy could fall into recession once the government eases its fiscal support. Whenever there is uncertainty in the modern financial system and the value of the currency, investors flock to gold as a safe haven. When the dollar depreciates, physical gold appreciates. Now, the quest...Read More
The most remarkable Warren Buffett move this year, I believe, is his decision to initiate a stake in premier gold miner Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD), going against the man’s previous words of wisdom. Indeed, his decision to go for gold is a sign of the times.We’re in a rock-bottom interest rate environment, with a growing threat of inflation given the unprecedented amount of monet...Read More
The South Africa-focused company, saw its PGM basket price rise by 58% year-on-year to US$2,015/oz in FY2020, driven mainly by higher rhodium and palladium prices.Read More
Timothy Ray Sewell is no stranger to pandemics. In the early 2000s, he developed emergency management plans in Indonesia and Borneo for BHP Billiton during the H1N1 influenza pandemic and the H5N1 avian influenza. Years later, Sewell was working for BHP in West Africa and Sundance Resources in central Africa as the first sporadic cases of Ebola emerged on the continent.Now the senior director of h...Read More
More than 1,800 people from over 80 countries tuned in to The Northern Miner's first Global Mining Symposium last week. The three-day virtual event built on the success of our Canadian Mining Symposium conferences, now in their fourth year, and featured interviews and panel discussions with mining executives, fund managers and technical experts from around the world.In the first panel discussion,...Read More
A new set of guidelines has been released called the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management to help strengthen mining practices, with the goal of zero harm to people and the environment.Prepared by the United Nations Environment Program, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the International Council on Metals and Mining (ICMM), the standard is a direct response to a series of l...Read More
VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 3, 2020 /CNW/ - First Energy Metals Ltd.Read full newsRead More
It’s bargain hunting time, as the stock market wobbles. While it’s not exactly a market crash, the fear of the next big correction is always there beneath the surface. With the TSX Composite Index down 1.5% Thursday, it seems as good a time as any to scour the bargain bins.With losses on the stock market, there come great opportunities. Today, we will review four great stocks that are...Read More
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.82% to 28,133.21 and the S&P 500 dropped 2.31% to 3,426.96 during the Aug. 31-Sept. 4 trading week. Spot gold lost 1.50%, or US$29.50 per oz., and finished the week at US$1,934.80 per ounce.Sibanye-Stillwater climbed US78 ? to US$13.19. The company reported that higher precious metal prices during the first half of 2020 underpinned its adjusted earnings befo...Read More
The S&P/TSX Composite Index fell 2.92% to 16,218.01 during the Aug. 31-Sept. 4 trading week. The S&P/TSX Global Base Metals index dropped 0.66% to 104.84, and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index lost 2.44% to 373.07. Spot gold fell US$29.50 per oz., or 1.5%, to finish at US$1,934.80 per ounce.PolyMet Mining's shares posted the largest gain after a district court in Minnesota found that the water permit...Read More
The S&P/TSX Venture Exchange was down 1.56% to 733.69. Spot gold fell 1.5%, or US$29.50 per oz., finishing the week at US$1,934.80 per ounce.Shares of Cornerstone Capital jumped $1.24 to $5.35. The company reported that drilling at its Miocene project, which was scheduled to start in February and March but was suspended due to Covid-19, will restart between December 2020 and April 2021. The Miocen...Read More
Buscar Company (OTC: CGLD) has published today the milestones accomplished to date and the expected milestones to be met in the near future.Read full newsRead More
Looking for a mining movie to watch? Check out our list of some of the greatest gold mining films ever made.Read full newsRead More
Legendary investor Warren Buffett is known for being uninterested in gold, but what comments has he actually made about the yellow metal?Read full newsRead More
Deep-South Resources Inc. announces that it will close $1 millionRead full newsRead More
If global investors reallocated just 5% of their financial assets to gold that would be $14.7 trillion of increased demand trying to purchase less than $1.8 trillion of privately held gold bullion.Read full newsRead More
Jim Paterson, chairman and CEO of ValOre Metals Corp, said investor sentiment had moved "from apathy, or fear, to FOMO [fear of missing out]" over the past year.Read More