The key investment bankers behind the merger and acquisitions flow used an event at the PDAC conference in Toronto to reassure that merger and acquisition activity is likely to continue despite aRead More

Share this article VANCOUVER - E2Gold Inc. [ETU-TSXV] is set to launch an initial drill program on its Band-Ore project in northwestern Ontario. The company said the 1,000-metre drill program will test historic resources and a geophysical anomaly.Periodic exploration over the last 90 years, including that by Noranda Mines, has produced highly encouraging rock sample assays, and drill hole trenc...Read More

Billed as Pieces of Eight, featuring eight panelists, the overriding message was that better days for precious metals investors will come, with the caveat, "for those who have the patience.Read More

CONEXPO-CON/AGG, Taking Construction to the Next LevelSPONSOREDconexpo-con/agg 2023Advancing Copper and Gold Projects in an Under-Explored Porphyry DistrictSPONSOREDresilience miningServicing China's Steel SectorSPONSOREDaspire miningChinese Strategic AllianceSPONSOREDxanadu minesGiglio said that the company has re-explored historically explored areas with different geological and exploratory...Read More

CONEXPO-CON/AGG, Taking Construction to the Next LevelSPONSOREDconexpo-con/agg 2023Advancing Copper and Gold Projects in an Under-Explored Porphyry DistrictSPONSOREDresilience miningServicing China's Steel SectorSPONSOREDaspire miningChinese Strategic AllianceSPONSOREDxanadu minesThe key investment bankers behind the merger and acquisitions flow used an event at the PDAC conference in Toronto...Read More

CONEXPO-CON/AGG, Taking Construction to the Next LevelSPONSOREDconexpo-con/agg 2023Advancing Copper and Gold Projects in an Under-Explored Porphyry DistrictSPONSOREDresilience miningServicing China's Steel SectorSPONSOREDaspire miningChinese Strategic AllianceSPONSOREDxanadu minesUnder the terms of the merger, each Altus shareholder will receive 0.5940 new Elemental shares for each share held....Read More

The cash offer is part of the firm's plans to reduce its US$7.6 billion of debt and follows strong flows from the company's coal, zinc and copper operations.Read More

Toronto-listed B2Gold is deepening its resource print in Mali after it moved last month to buy Australian-listed Oklo Resources for A$91.Read More

CONEXPO-CON/AGG, Taking Construction to the Next LevelSPONSOREDconexpo-con/agg 2023Advancing Copper and Gold Projects in an Under-Explored Porphyry DistrictSPONSOREDresilience miningServicing China's Steel SectorSPONSOREDaspire miningChinese Strategic AllianceSPONSOREDxanadu minesFlooding in the region began on June 13, triggered by a warm spell of weather, and rapid snow melt in mountains, ex...Read More

CONEXPO-CON/AGG, Taking Construction to the Next LevelSPONSOREDconexpo-con/agg 2023Advancing Copper and Gold Projects in an Under-Explored Porphyry DistrictSPONSOREDresilience miningServicing China's Steel SectorSPONSOREDaspire miningChinese Strategic AllianceSPONSOREDxanadu minesBeijing-based MMG suspended operations in April after huge protests by indigenous communities with some activists i...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A flawless 103.49-ct diamond sold for over $20m at Christie's New York, beating its high estimate of $18m.The Light of Africa Diamond (pictured) is a D-color, Type IIa emerald-cut stone, from the iconic Cullinan mine, in South Africa.It was cut and polished in South Africa from a 299.3 carat rough stone, which was sold to Stargems DMCC, Dubai-based arm of the Antwerp diamond s...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Celebrity jeweler De Grisogono, which filed for bankruptcy in 2020, has been bought for an undisclosed sum by the Dubai-based Damac Group.De Grisogono was known for its close links with Hollywood actress Natalie Portman and supermodel Naomi Campbell, as well as its Creation I necklace, featuring the the largest D/IF diamond in the world (pictured), which sold for $33.7m at Christie...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE) says it is poised to become the world's largest hub for both rough and polished gems, as it reported over $11bn of trade in the first quarter of 2022.In February it announced it had overtaken Antwerp as the top trading hub globally for rough diamonds - over $22.8bn in 2021.And with over $4bn of polished trade in Q1 2022 - a year-on-year rise of...Read More

Geoscience BC has successfully demonstrated how an ordinary brewery and greenhouse gas meter can aid in finding new mineralized deposits.The organization said on June 14, the made-in-British-Columbia device was tested at the Mount Milligan copper-gold mine located between Fort St. James and Mackenzie.The device measures oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in soil (soil-gas) in real-time, indi...Read More

If gold companies want to survive the future of mining, which will entail low-grade ores and the required responses to climate change, they will need to consolidate, said Newmont (NYSE: NEM, TSX: NGT) CEO Tom Palmer, during his keynote speech on the second day of PDAC 2022 in Toronto. According to Palmer, miners are identifying fewer "large scale and transformative" gold deposits that are harder...Read More

Just ahead of a runoff presidential election in Colombia that will determine current president Iv??n Duque's successor, The Northern Miner caught up with the country's Minister of Mines and Energy, Diego Mesa Puyo at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention on June 13 in Toronto. Colombia has been trying to diversify its mining sector away from thermal coal, and Mesa...Read More

This week's episode features former Ontario Securities Commission chair and CEO Maureen Jensen in conversation with Northern Miner senior reporter Henry Lazenby at the Global Mining Symposium. Maureen discusses the shortage of millennial talent in the mining industry, the challenge of reaching net-zero by 2030, prospects for war and instability, and the importance of avoiding politics in the board...Read More

Canada's Adventus Mining (TSX-V: ADZN) and Salazar Resources (TSX-V: SRL) have reached a preliminary investment protection agreement (IPA) with Ecuador's government for their Curipamba-El Domo copper and gold project.As part of the deal, the partners have committed to investing US$270 million over the next 12 years in the project. The figure doesn't include the US$50 million both miners have inv...Read More

Mexico-focused precious metals miner Orla Mining (TSX: OLA; NYSE: ORLA) is expanding its footprint into the U.S. with the acquisition of Gold Standard Ventures (TSX: GSV; NYSE: GSV), whose main asset is the South Railroad open-pit project located on the Carlin trend in Nevada.Earlier this year, Gold Standard completed a robust feasibility study for the South Railroad gold project, outlining a mill...Read More

These are bewildering times. The state of the economy seems more up in the air than usual. Some say a recession is already upon us. Others that one will come yet this year, or in 2023. Others, including CPM Group, state that a recession is inevitable and imminent, but it might be 2024, 2025, or even 2026 before it arrives. The reality is that there still is a lot of slack in major parts of the Nor...Read More