TSX slips, Dec. 27–30
The S&P/TSX Composite Index slipped 0.3% to 15,287.59 during the last week of 2016. While Canada’s benchmark index exited the year on a soft note, it gained 17.5% since the…
Barrick Gold Corporation
Barrick taps Cisco for digital reinvention
When it introduced its Mine of the Future program in 2008, Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO) introduced automated machinery, remote operations centres and data analytics into an industry that has a…
Arizona shares tumble on speculation
Arizona Mining (TSX: AZ) shares slightly recovered on promising assays from the Taylor zinc-lead sulphide deposit at its Hermosa property, following a sharp decline after a mining publication raised concerns…
Winston Gold drills high grade in Montana
Winston Gold Mining (CSE: WGC; US-OTC: WGMCF) is confident that the past-producing, steeply dipping fissure quartz-sulphide vein systems on its Winston gold property in Montana can extend to considerable depths….
Outlook 2017: Five companies getting busy in the new year
With some recovery in commodity prices in 2016, more than a few mining companies are stepping up work programs and striving to hit milestones in the coming year. The following…
Palmer’s Probe Metals consolidates ground
A recent flurry of deals has almost doubled Probe Metals’ (TSXV: PRB) land position at its Val-d’Or East project in Quebec, and the latest set of assay results suggest why….
Entrepreneurial spirit of the Tahltan booms in BC
VANCOUVER — When British fur traders first came across the Tahltan First Nation in northwest B.C. almost two centuries ago, the aboriginal group already had its own trading economy, being…
US markets mixed, Nov. 28-Dec. 2
The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.1% to 19,170.42, the S&P 500 Index fell 0.97% to 2,191.95, and the Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 2.7% to 5,255.65. Spot gold dipped 0.6%…
Miner Moments #6: U308 CEO Richard Spencer warns of ‘North American arrogance’ in South America
In this clip from our “Focus on Argentina” symposium in Toronto in late September, Richard Spencer, president and CEO of uranium explorer U3O8 Corp., speaks his mind on Barrick Gold’s…
Harte Gold finds new gold zone at Sugar
Harte Gold (TSX: HRT; US-OTC: HRTFF) has made a gold discovery halfway between the Sugar and Wolf zones at its Sugar project in northern Ontario. The latest discovery lies within…
Premier picks up land from Goldcorp, Kinross
In an interview in September, Ewan Downie, Premier Gold Mines’ (TSX: PG; US-OTC: PIRGF) president and CEO, said his management team is “always on the lookout for an opportunity,” and…
Dynacor fires up Chala mill in Peru
Peru’s new president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, has said he will implement policies that favour investment in the mining sector and also plans to enhance and streamline the formalization process for…