Randgold's Tongon Mine in Ivory Coast. Source Randgold Resources Ltd.Barrick Gold Corp. [ABX-TSX, NYSE] is consolidating its position as the world's leading gold producer by agreeing to merge with Randgold Resources Ltd. [GOLD-NASDAQ, LSE] in a deal worth $18.3 billion.Under the share exchange agreement, Randgold shareholders will receive 6.128 New Barrick shares. As a result, Barrick shareholders...Read More
Underground mining operations Goldcorp's Red Lake, Ontario gold mine. Source Goldcorp Inc.Calling all disruptors and innovators!One of Canada's largest gold producers wants to hear from anyone with an idea or a technology that will help to tackle some of the mining industry's biggest challenges.They include everything from reducing the sector's environmental footprint, to finding more efficient wa...Read More
Jennifer McConnachie of the BC TRCR presents the Coal Reclamation Award to Warn Franklin on behalf of Teck Coal Ltd. in Williams Lake on September 19 for work at Horseshoe Ridge at Line Creek Operations.Williams Lake, B.C., Canada - The British Columbia Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation (TRCR) presented the 2017 BC Mine Reclamation Award at its 41st Annual BC Mine Reclamation Symposi...Read More
LONDON - Toronto based Barrick Gold has agreed to buy Randgold Resources for $6.1 billion in stock to create the world's largest gold miner.Investors will get 6.128 new Barrick shares for each Randgold share they hold. Shareholders in Barrick will own about 66.6 per cent of the merged company, which will combine Randgold's African mines with Barrick's holdings in the Americas.Nicholas Hyett, an...Read More
92 Resources (TSXV: NTY; US-OTC: RGDCF) has discovered four new spodumene-bearing pegmatites on its 100% owned Corvette lithium property in the James Bay region of Quebec. It has divided them into two zones called, CV3 and CV4.92 discovered the pegmatite during its 10-day 2018 summer exploration program. CV3 is 20 metres long and 3 metes wide, and located 250 metres south of CV1. CV4 contains thre...Read More
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) and Randgold Resources (LON: RRS; NASDAQ: GOLD) have agreed to a share-for-share merger to create the New Barrick Group in a deal valued at US$18.3 billion.Randgold shareholders will receive 6.12 new Barrick shares and a US$2 dividend for the 2018 financial year for each held Randgold share. Current Barrick shareholders will own about two-thirds of the new compan...Read More
In one of the biggest and most surprising deals the gold industry has seen in more than a decade, Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) is combining with Randgold Resources (LON: RRS; NASDAQ: GOLD) in a share-for-share merger.The business combination creates the largest gold producer in the world, with five of the world's top-10, tier-one gold assets by total cash cost: Cortez and Goldstrike in N...Read More
Canada's benchmark index rose 1.31% to 16,224.13 during an improved trading week. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index rose 5.4% to 66.73 and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index rose 2.7% to 156.11. The gold price rose 0.4% to US$1,198.70.Royal Nickel shares rose 100% to 56 ?, and by press time had risen even further to 85 ?, after the company produced 24,000 oz. gold worth $38 million from the Father's Day...Read More
I just returned from the 2018 Beaver Creek Precious Metals Summit in Colorado (click here for presentation page) which, according to organizers, drew record attendance despite an overall sentiment that we are in a very unforgiving junior resource space for most companies and their shareholders.The summit is a great opportunity to speak and meet with companies already on the radar, kick the tires o...Read More
"Since the EURO is 50 % of the USD index, the key to lower USD would be for EURO to retake the uptrend line.Need 2 weekly closes over the line.With trade wars looming, & FOMC this week.............. itspivotal week.Watch that one eighteen area."Read full newsRead More
MAN Truck & Bus has a whole range of electric commercial vehicles on display at the IAA in Hanover. Their portfolio includes the eTGE electric van, the brand new electric CitE truck, the eTGM and, an electric bus prototype. Clearly, the Volkswagen label MAN is to cover all classes of city logistics, be it light, ...Read full newsRead More
"Barron's Rediscovering Gold - Why it should be part of every portfolio"Read full newsRead More
Investors stung by the sell-off in gold are going to need more than cheap equities and stabilizing bullion prices to wade back into mining-company stocks.Read full newsRead More
In the days leading up to TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, The Economist published the cover story, 'Why Startups Are Leaving Silicon Valley.' The author outlined reasons why the Valley has "peaked." Venture capital investors are deploying capital outside the Bay Area more than e...Read full newsRead More
We find out what it's like to step into a paleontologist's boots and discover some dino gold.Read full newsRead More
Canadian miner New Gold Inc. (NGD) announced on Sept. 19 it is selling its Mesquite Mine to Equinox Gold Corp. (EQX.V).New Gold said the proceeds of the sale will be used to bolster the balance sheet in order to tackle unexpected financial needs and seize investment opportunities.Warning! GuruFocusRead full newsRead More
The global fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) is expected to reach 13 million by 2020, which is triple the 3.7 million units seen in 2017, according to International Energy Agency data.Read full newsRead More
"We've canvassed #mining, investment and finance, advisory, technology, research and SME leaders around the globe to probe the answers to this and other questions leading up to the second #FutureofMining conference in Denver at the end of October, 2018. https://t.co/UwTZQtEkOM"Read full newsRead More
Grievances against Goldcorp's (TSX:G) (NYSE:GG) Pe??asquito gold mine in Mexico have decreased by almost 66 per cent in 2018, said Nelson N????ez, Sustainability & Compliance Manager for Minera Pe??asquito, the Canadian miner's subsidiary in the Latin American country.Interviewed by MINING.com, N????ez revealed the strategy behind such accomplishment in an area that has seen its share of protests...Read More
Grievances against Goldcorp's (TSX:G) (NYSE:GG) Pe??asquito gold mine in Mexico have decreased by almost 66 per cent in 2018, said Nelson N????ez, Sustainability & Compliance Manager for Minera Pe??asquito, the Canadian miner's subsidiary in the Latin American country.Interviewed by MINING.com, N????ez revealed the strategy behind such accomplishment in an area that has seen its share of protests...Read More