The opening week of 2016 marked the worst first week in history for Wall Street stocks, as oil prices fell to their lowest level in more than a decade and concerns about slowing growth in China spooked global markets. Manufacturing data in…
Since the commodities downturn started four years ago, gold companies have sought ways to reduce costs and push ahead. The spot gold price ended 2015 at US$1,061 per oz., down 10% for the year and 36% since closing 2012 at US$1,664 per oz….
Raymond James analyst Phil Russo has reviewed 67 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the gold space since 2010 to determine how many are viable producing, developing and streaming deals. He has found that 40% of transactions would not recoup…
Premier Gold Mines’ (TSX: PG; US-OTC: PIRGF) CEO Ewan Downie recently talked to The Northern Miner about the company’s decision to buy Pure Gold Mining’s (TSXV: PGM; US-OTC: LRTNF) land package so that it could expand its…
Premier Gold Mines’ (TSX: PG; US-OTC: PIRGF) story has of a lot of moving parts that are “moving us in the right direction,” CEO Ewan Downie says in his company’s blog.
Richard Schodde, managing director of MinEx Consulting, investigated the investments and returns on exploration dollars spent in Canada, and presented his findings at this year’s Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in…
Canada’s main stock index closed lower, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index slipping 0.8% to 13,324.67. The S&P/TSX Capped Diversified Metals & Mining Index fell 2.4% to 348.96. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index, however, gained…
VANCOUVER — There’s been a rising tide of proxy contest activity in Canadian markets since 2008, and advisory firm Kingsdale Shareholder Services is cautioning companies that higher shareholder activism represents a “new…
Lower prices for gold, copper and oil (benchmark Brent crude dipped below US$45 per barrel for the first time since August), weighed on U.S. resource equities, while better labour market data pointed to the economy’s improving…
Geologists at Gold Standard Ventures (TSXV: GSV; NYSE-MKT: GSV) could be on the brink of another major discovery in the Carlin trend.
Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) and private-equity firm Waterton Global Resource Management are the latest bargain hunters to find something they like at Barrick Gold’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) year-long sale emporium. On Nov. 12 Barrick…
Newspapers are replete with articles denouncing the dearth of innovation in the mining sector. While we may argue about the causes – the sector’s capital intensive nature, the people who work in mining, etc. — most people will…
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