The passage of a law that allows the use of chemicals including sodium cyanide in mineral processing lifts the prospects of advancing Pan American Silver’s (PAA-T, PAS-Q) Calcatreu gold project in Argentina’s Rio Negro province.
Vancouver – British Columbia Premier Christy Clark highlighted a reduced backlog and improved conditions for the mineral industry at today’s AME BC Roundup luncheon.
Mining analyst Chris Lichtenheldt of UBS Investment Research has cut his 12-month target price on Hecla Mining (HL-N) to US$8 per share from his earlier forecast of US$9.85 per share, after the silver miner announced it has been forced to close…
Investors in Gabriel Resources (GBU-T) were hit by post-holiday blues after the Romanian government announced that it would be doubling royalties on gold production in the country.
Canada is on the edge of a historic choice: to diversify our energy markets away from our traditional trading partner in the U.S., or to continue with the status quo.
Canada is on the edge of an historic choice: to diversify our energy markets away from our traditional trading partner in the United States or to continue with the status quo.
Today more than ever before, there is a growing emphasis across many African countries on accountability and transparency concerning their natural resources. Alongside this, however, is the unpredictable and growing trend of resource…
Brian Menell, heir to the South Africa-based Anglovaal mining fortune and a speaker of the Mines and Money conference here in December, states the obvious when he says increased government intervention in the mining industry is not generally…
As Western powers prepare to fully withdraw their troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, Afghanistan’s Minister of Mines, His Excellency Wahidullah Shahrani, is preparing for a very different kind of deployment.
London, U.K. – The Serious Fraud Office (SFO), an independent department of the British government that investigates and prosecutes serious or complex financial fraud and corruption, is looking into allegations of unlawful activity at Eurasian…
The wait is over, and Dundee Precious Metals (DPM-T) has finally secured an approval on its environmental impact assessment (EIA) for its Krumovgrad gold project in Bulgaria.
Two recent news items have underscored the divergent futures of the Northwest Territories (NWT) and Canada’s other two territories. On one side, BHP Billiton (BHP-N) announced possibly selling its Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories…
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