Wheaton expands into Europe with LSE listing
Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX: WPM; NYSE; WPM; LSE: WPM), one of the world’s largest gold and silver streaming companies, began trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE)…
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Adriatic Metals secures US$28M financing package
Adriatic Metals (LSE: ADT2; ASX: ADT) has signed agreements to raise US$28 million from two new investors – Queen’s Road Capital Investment and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development…
Chairman offers to take Kazakhstan’s Kaz Minerals private
Oleg Novachuk and Vladimir Kim, the current and past chairman of Kaz Minerals (LSE: KAZ), are proposing a buyout offer of the pure-play copper company. Their company, Nova Resources, in…
Brixton teams up with Friedland’s HPX on polymetallic project in Montana
Brixton Metals (TSXV: BBB) has entered a joint venture agreement on its wholly owned Hog Heaven project with High Power Exploration (HPX), a privately owned mining company led by billionaire…
New Found Gold drills long intervals of high-grade gold in Newfoundland
Drilling around last year’s discovery hole at the Keats zone within New Found Gold’s (TSXV: NFG; US-OTC: NFGFF) wholly owned Queensway gold project in Newfoundland has returned long intervals of…
Canex Metals finds mineralization at Gold Range in Arizona
Canex Metals (TSXV: CANX) has released assay results from the first five drill holes at its Gold Range project in northern Arizona’s Mohave County. The 10-sq.-km project sits within a historic…
The View from England: US elections are unnerving for global investors
An already catastrophic year for the global economy is suddenly even more uncertain as investors everywhere grapple with the likely impact of the U.S. presidential election. With very few exceptions…
Galway Metals CEO says Clarence Stream ‘an important new gold district in North America’
Drilling at Galway Metals’ (TSXV GWM) Clarence Stream gold project in New Brunswick has more than doubled the strike of the Richard zone from 400 metres to over 900 metres….
Barrick, NovaGold drill large-scale Donlin project in Alaska
In what has been the largest drill campaign at the Donlin gold project in Alaska in 12 years, joint-venture partners Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) and NovaGold Resources (TSX:…
Nordgold-Shandong bidding war intensifies on ‘misleading’ statement from Cardinal
A long-running battle between Nordgold (LSE: NORD) and China’s Shandong Gold Mining over Cardinal Resources (ASX: CDV) has taken a legal turn after the Russian miner made a fresh application…
Barrick granted exploration licences in Tanzania
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) has been granted 10 new exploration licenses in Tanzania, where, until recently, it was locked in a three-year conflict over taxes and mine ownership….
Wheaton Precious Metals to trade in London
Canada’s Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX: WPM; NYSE: WPM), one of the world’s largest gold and silver streaming companies, said today it has been approved by the U.K. financial regulator to…