Agnico Eagle CEO Sean Boyd sits down for an in-depth interview with Northern Miner publisher Anthony Vaccaro at the 2018 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto, presented by The Northern Miner and Canadian Mining Journal.Read More
A rough-and-tumble October for investors was good for the spot price of gold, which finished the choppy month in the black. It broke off a period of stagnation for the yellow metal that had extended into the fall. Prices have suffered since the late spring on positive economic data and the continued strength of the U.S. dollar.In a rare month, gold equities recorded solid gains. However, there wer...Read More
I'm already fatigued and disgusted with Christmas promotions. They're everywhere now, including every other ad on television. I've come to loathe the holiday season because of the extreme materialism and consumerism into which it has degenerated.That said, Wall Street has overlooked or ignored an interesting aspect reflected in Amazon.com's Q3 earnings circus. Amazon is now desperate to gene...Read More
Planalto Copper Project in northern Brazil.Lara Exploration Ltd. [LRA-TSXV] has signed a letter of intent, granting Capstone Mining Corp. [CS-TSX] the option to earn up to a 70% interest in the company's Planalto Copper Project in northern Brazil.Lara said its exploration work over the past 12 months has yielded a series of very promising drill results from the Homestead target, including hole PDH...Read More
The Mount Newman railway line in Western Australia. Source: BHP Billiton Ltd.BHP Billiton Ltd. [BHP-NYSE; BHPLF-OTCPK] has suspended all iron ore rail operations in Western Australia after a train carrying iron ore took off without the driver on board and travelled across the Pilbara outback before it was stopped early Monday.Local media reports said the train literally ran away after the driver b...Read More
TORONTO - Barrick Gold Corp. says shareholders have voted more than 99 per cent in favour of a takeover of Randgold Resources Ltd.The proposed combination of the two companies, announced in September, would add gold mine properties in Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to Barrick's portfolio.The deal would also see Randgold chief executive officer Mark Bristow mov...Read More
All political power is primarily an illusion... Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors.- Jimmy Breslin, American journalist and authorAh, the election midterms!It's a favorite holiday for both the media and the government.The midterms toss up a big cloud of smoke. And the media and government break out the mirrors.For them, it's better than...Read More
After falling as low as 14,639.70 in late October 2018, Canada's benchmark index rebounded to end the trading week up 1.55% to 15,119.28. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index rose 5.9% to 65.73 and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index rose 3.1% to 166.28. The price of gold fell 0.04% to US$1,232.20.Shares of Mason Resources rose 146% to 40 ? on news that Hudbay Minerals would acquire the remaining 86% of its...Read More
In one of the few exploration projects it is funding next year, Cameco Corporation (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) and its joint-venture partners Orano Canada and Purepoint Uranium (TSXV: PTU) are planning a 36 km ground electro-magnetic survey and 6,000 metres of diamond drilling at their Hook Lake uranium project in Saskatchewan.Cameco owns 39.5% of the project in the province's Patterson uranium district...Read More
IAMGOLD (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) is considering two mine plan scenarios at its Sumitomo Metal Mining (TYO: 5713) joint-ventured C??t?(C) gold project in northern Ontario, according to a feasibility study the company recently announced.The base case open pit mine plan outlines a US$795 million after-tax net present value (NPV) at a 5% discount rate and a 15.2% after-tax internal rate of return (IRR)....Read More
Less than a month after Northern Vertex Mining Corp. (TSXV: NEE; US-OTC: NHVCF) signed a US$8.5 million silver stream financing with Maverix Metals (TSXV: MMX), the company has reached a deal with existing shareholder Greenstone Resources for an unsecured working capital facility of up to US$10 million.The facility from Greenstone, a private equity fund specializing n the metals and mining space,...Read More
It feels good when it buzzes.The 2018 New Orleans Investment Conference just wrapped up, and despite a challenging resource space, the attendance at the conference this year leads me to believe there are better days ahead.Outsider Club founder Nick Hodge and I presented on the good, the bad, and the ugly in the junior resource space.Needless to say, there's a lot of bad and a lot of ugly out there...Read More
Agnico Eagle CEO Sean Boyd sits down for an in-depth interview with Northern Miner publisher Anthony Vaccaro at the 2018 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto, presented by The Northern Miner and Canadian Mining Journal.Read More
Agnico Eagle CEO Sean Boyd sits down for an in-depth interview with Northern Miner publisher Anthony Vaccaro at the 2018 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto, presented by The Northern Miner and Canadian Mining Journal.Read More
So stocks dropped a little in October. Ok they actually dropped a lot and all of a sudden the S&P 500 was miles away from the all those optimistic 3,000+ year end targets. And what happens when...Read full newsRead More
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Looking for the top gold mining stocks going into 2019 and 2020? Should you buy or sell? Click to learn more about these interesting golden stocks!Read full newsRead More
With the Basic Materials sector poised to log strong growth in the third quarter, it will be interesting to see how miners Alamos Gold and First Majestic Silver fare when they report quarterly results.Read full newsRead More
"Stelmine Canada exploring right now - keep a look out for this one in the coming months ! $STH #STH #Courcy#QuebecMining #Gold #Opinaca https://t.co/xX6eHn4Ny7Read their corp. presentation here: https://t.co/AUFCl6HSJy"Read full newsRead More