As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best informationWe probably have more rare earth deposits in Canada, or controlled by Canadian-listed juniors, than anywhere in the world. But Spectrum Mining Corporation, a private company, controlled one of the best - the Wicheeda Lake REE claims 80km north of Prince George, BC.Wicheeda LakeIn 2008 Spectrum contracted Falc...Read More
The Oyu Tolgoi project is central to Rio Tinto's push to diversify its portfolio away from iron ore.Read full newsRead More
Bullion futures held near a six-month high after topping $1,280 an ounce.Read full newsRead More
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Shares in explorer SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) closed 2.3% higher in London and were trading up 8.3% in Toronto early morning after it announced it had discovered a new copper and gold mineralization at its Porvenir project, located in southern Ecuador.A broad zone of northeast-trending porphyry mineralization about 1km-wide and hosting numerous porphyry centres currently defined over 6km-long and...Read More
Shares in explorer SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) closed 2.3% higher in London and were trading up 8.3% in Toronto early morning after it announced it had discovered a new copper and gold mineralization at its Porvenir project, located in southern Ecuador.A broad zone of northeast-trending porphyry mineralization about 1km-wide and hosting numerous porphyry centres currently defined over 6km-long and...Read More
Newly public Finland gold explorer Firefox Gold (TSXV: FFOX) recently identified five new gold targets on its Jeesio gold project in Northern Finland's central Lapland greenstone belt after compiling samples in its geochemical database.The 2,751-sample Jeesio database contains 838 new till samples from the company's recently completed bottom of till sampling program, 768 historical Geological Su...Read More
South Korean plaintiffs in a World War Two forced labour court case against Japan's Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp have applied to seize some of Nippon Steel's Korean assets, their lawyers said on Wednesday.The application for the asset seizure, if approved by the court, could further strain South Korea's already frosty bilateral relations with Japan over the issue.Japan denounced a South Kore...Read More
Cobalt 27 Capital has entered an agreement to acquire ASX-listed Highlands Pacific. The acquisition, valued at $96 million, will increase Cobalt 27's exposure to nickel through the Ramu nickel-cobalt mine in Papua New Guinea. Highlands Pacific owns an 8.56% interest in the mine, which is majority owned by Metallurgical Corp. of China Ltd.Cobalt 27 has agreed to pay A10.5 ? in cash per share for...Read More
Cobalt 27 Capital has entered an agreement to acquire ASX-listed Highlands Pacific. The acquisition, valued at $96 million, will increase Cobalt 27's exposure to nickel through the Ramu nickel-cobalt mine in Papua New Guinea. Highlands Pacific owns an 8.56% interest in the mine, which is majority owned by Metallurgical Corp. of China Ltd.Cobalt 27 has agreed to pay A10.5 ? in cash per share for...Read More
It's the first day of a new era for Barrick Gold, the world's largest bullion miner, as it officially began trading Wednesday as a merged entity with Randgold Resources.From now on, Barrick's symbol on the New York Stock Exchange will be GOLD, the ticker formerly held by Randgold on NASDAQ. In Toronto, the company is keeping its ABX symbol.The $18.3 billion-deal, which gained final approval in D...Read More
It's the first day of a new era for Barrick Gold, the world's largest bullion miner, as it officially began trading Wednesday as a merged entity with Randgold Resources.From now on, Barrick's symbol on the New York Stock Exchange will be GOLD, the ticker formerly held by Randgold on NASDAQ. In Toronto, the company is keeping its ABX symbol.The $18.3 billion-deal, which gained final approval in D...Read More
Metso has agreed to acquire HighService Service, the service business of the Chilean mining technology and maintenance provider HighService Corp.HighService Service is a high-quality service provider for the mining industry, with operations in Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Its sales in the fiscal year 2017 were 60 million euros and it has 1,300 employees.The acquisition is pending regulatory app...Read More
Metso has agreed to acquire HighService Service, the service business of the Chilean mining technology and maintenance provider HighService Corp.HighService Service is a high-quality service provider for the mining industry, with operations in Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Its sales in the fiscal year 2017 were 60 million euros and it has 1,300 employees.The acquisition is pending regulatory app...Read More
China's No.1 gold producer Zijin Mining plans to issue 8 billion yuan (about $1.2 billion) worth of shares in Shanghai to finance the acquisition of Canada's Nevsun Resources (TSX, NYSEMKT:NSU), the biggest overseas purchase since the Beijing-backed miner went public in Hong Kong in 2003.Zijin aims to sell up to 3.4 billion A shares to investors in China, in a plan which is subject to shareholder...Read More
Big mining companies outperformed the broader market in 2018Read full newsRead More
Solar Ship CEO Jay Godsall pitches the benefits of using airships to access remote areas to a live audience at The Northern Miner's Progressive Mine Forum held at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto in October 2018.Visit www.solarship.com for more information.Solar Ship CEO Jay Godsall speaking at The Northern Miner's Progressive Mine Forum at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto in October 2...Read More
Investors seeking exposure to gold typically focus on senior gold miners like Barrick because of the stability and maturity of their operations. While this provides a lower-risk means of bolstering exposure to gold, junior gold miners offer the opportunity to gain access to outsized returns. This is because they are typically viewed by the market as risky ventures that could fail should gold fall...Read More
A bidding war appears to have erupted over junior gold miner SolGold (TSX:SOLG), which is conducting exploration work in the Andean nation of Ecuador. The miner's stock has soared by 28% over the last year, and there are indications that it could climb higher.Emerging as a potential takeover targetSolGold has been attracting considerable interest from a range of major miners. Australian senior gol...Read More
I wish I would have followed by own advice and loaded up on Teck Resources (TSX:TECK.B)(NYSE:TECK) shares back when they were languishing under $10 each.Like many natural resource companies, Teck was feeling the pinch of declining commodity prices in 2015-16. Metallurgical coal prices had collapsed, and metal prices weren't doing much better. Teck's balance sheet was also in tatters, and it had bi...Read More