Operations at the Renard diamond mine in Quebec will restart this month, after a six-month suspension, Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX: OR) has announced.The September restart follows a full review of operations and the approval of a plan to reduce costs by $30 million over the next 16 months.The mine, operated by Stornoway Diamonds, has been on care and maintenance since the Quebec government mandated...Read More
Results from the first-phase exploration program at Atac Resources' (TSXV: ATF) 11.5-sq.-km Airstrip target, part of the 1,700-sq.-km Rackla gold property in east-central Yukon, have defined an orogenic gold system. Drilling has outlined mineralization over an area of 1,000 metres by 500 metres and across 300 vertical metres.Atac has completed 12 rotary air blast (RAB) holes to date, in addition t...Read More
Toronto-based Roxgold (TSX: ROXG; US-OTC: ROGFF) announced the results from a new exploration program conducted at the company's Boussoura project, located in the southern part of Burkina Faso, near the border with C??te d'Ivoire.Staked by the company in 2014, Boussoura is located in the West African Hound?(C) Greenstone belt, which is host to several large-scale operating mines, including Roxgol...Read More
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared at the launch of Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) and Sumitomo Metal Mining's C??t?(C) gold project in Ontario.The prime minister attended the project's official ground-breaking, a ceremony that symbolizes the start of construction and that was also attended by local First Nations, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, cabinet ministers, members of parliament and...Read More
Wolfden Resources (TSXV: WLF) has released a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Pickett Mountain massive sulphide project in northern Maine, 5 km from the nearest highway and 24 km from a rail line.The early-stage study outlines a mine life of 10.7 years producing a total of 600 million lb. payable zinc, 230 million lb. payable lead, 78 million lb. payable copper, 8 million oz. payable...Read More
Ecuador-focused miner SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG) said today that it had received $100 million from streaming company Franco-Nevada (TSX: FNV; NYSE: FNV), which it will use to progress its Alpala copper-gold project through to final feasibility and a development decision.The funding is part of a net-smelter royalty finance agreement (NSR) between the parties agreed in May, which guarantees Fran...Read More
Auroch taps into further nickel potentialSPONSOREDauroch mineralsAVZ closes on financing for tier-one lithium projectSPONSOREDavz mineralsElement 25's Butcherbird on songSPONSOREDelement 25Waihi District, a Golden Opportunity in New Zealand SPONSOREDoceanagoldLeadership changes at the big miners are typically planned for, with a successor identified and groomed for the top job well in advance...Read More
Sep 15, 2020 Guest(s): Pierre Lassonde Chairman, Franco-Nevada Should the Dow Jones to gold ratio retrace to 1:1, which it has on several occasions in the past, the gold price could climb to $15,000 to $20,000 an ounce assuming the metal catches up to the Dow, according to Pierre Lassonde, chair emeritus of Franco-Nevada. Lassonde retired from the board of Franco-Nevada this year, but is still a...Read More
Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses the correlation between stock tips and market bubbles. There is a great story surrounding the late Joe Kennedy, father of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy, and a Wall Street robber baron of the highest order. A dedicated market player in the 1920s, as rumor (or myth) would have us believe, one fine morning in late September 1929, he was havi...Read More
Sep 16, 2020 Guest(s): Eric Fier CEO & Director, SilverCrest Metals Gold and silver's extraordinary bull-run in the last few months is attracting many new investors to the marketplace. For one mining CEO, the best advice he can give to these generalists is to pay attention to management teams. In an interview with Kitco News, on the sidelines of the virtual Beaver Creek Precious Metals Summit, E...Read More
The "digital economy vs. the hands-on economy."That's what the talking heads are now calling sugar daddy Jerome's (otherwise known as Fed Chairman Jerome Powell) "by any means necessary" approach to inflating the biggest asset bubble most of us will ever see.In the real world, the debacle that is the U.S. handling of the COVID-19 virus is leading those in the real world to some all-too-real choice...Read More
The big gold-ETF buyingthat catapulted gold higher into early August has gone missing in action. That’s why gold stalled out since, driftingsideways flirting with a correction. To continuepowering higher, gold needs these major stock-market-capital inflows via exchange-tradedfunds to resume. The near-term fortunesfor the precious-metals complex are heavily dependent on how...Read More
Golds bullish trend has worked well in 2020, so what is next over the immediate 3 to 6 months? Will we continue to see a golden future.The US dollar had been strong into COVID 19, since then the FED has printing a lot of money, and they are also considering YCC (Yield Curve Control), last seen during WW2. [Note YCC lasted 9 years over WW2. WOW, that is a lot of money printing.]The FED is now forec...Read More
The big gold-ETF buyingthat catapulted gold higher into early August has gone missing in action. That’s why gold stalled out since, driftingsideways flirting with a correction. To continuepowering higher, gold needs these major stock-market-capital inflows via exchange-tradedfunds to resume. The near-term fortunesfor the precious-metals complex are heavily dependent on how...Read More
Golds bullish trend has worked well in 2020, so what is next over the immediate 3 to 6 months? Will we continue to see a golden future.The US dollar had been strong into COVID 19, since then the FED has printing a lot of money, and they are also considering YCC (Yield Curve Control), last seen during WW2. [Note YCC lasted 9 years over WW2. WOW, that is a lot of money printing.]The FED is now forec...Read More
Starcore International Mines Ltd. (TSX: SAM) ("Starcore" or the "Company") reports the results for the first quarter ended July 31, ...Read More
President and CEO Robert Eadie explains why he is excited for the future of Starcore International Mines (TSX:SAM) ...Read More
Bruce McLeod CEO of Sabina Gold & Silver speaks at Mines & Money 5@5 Virtual Round table for the latest developments at ...Read More
(Refiling Sept 13 story to fix typo in 13th paragraph)HOUSTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Sallystrengthened off the west coast of Florida on Sunday and waspoised to become a category 2 hurricane, bringing the threat ofdangerous storm surges and high winds to the U.S. Gulf Coast,the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.The storm track was disrupting oil production in the U.S.Gulf of Mexico...Read More
At least 50 people are thought to have died when an artisanal gold mine collapsed near Kamituga in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday afternoon, a local mining NGO said.Read full newsRead More