President of Mexico addresses question on mining taxes
At a gala dinner in Toronto honouring Felipe Calderon, the president of Mexico fielded questions on everything…
Barrick Gold Corporation
Barrick boasts record Q1 profit
Higher production and sales, lower cash costs and strong gold and copper prices pushed up Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) adjusted first quarter net income by 149% to US$741 million (US75¢ per shar…
More gold for New Guinea Gold
New Guinea Gold (NGG-V) has found more gold at its Sinivit Gold mine in Papua New Guinea.The company says it…
Rye Patch looks to bounce back with new resource estimate
Rye Patch Gold (RPM-V) failed to tap into the market support it enjoyed as recently as a month ago with its …
Who will follow Australia’s lead on mining tax? (May 18, 2010)
The global mining team at UBS Investment Research is fingering Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mo…
International Tower Hill Mines proposes spin-off of assets
A proposed spin-off transaction that will separate International Tower Hill Mine’s (ITH-T, THM-X) advanced sta…
Editorial: Taxes and rumours of taxes
Governments have squeezed the golden mining goose a little tighter in two major mining countries over the pa…
Barrick allowed to mine Cortez with restrictions (April 14, 2010)
Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) says that a U.S. District Court has ruled that mining operations can continue at i…
Caspiche resources grow 23% (April 06, 2010)
Exeter Resources (XRC-T, XRA-X) has both increased and upgraded resources at its sizable Caspiche gold-coppe…
Barrick prices IPO for ABG
Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) is pricing the initial public offering of African Barrick Gold (ABG) at 5.75 (US$8.71) per share. African Barrick Gold will trade on the London Stock Exchange. Barrick exp…
Argentinian porphyry attracts Peregrine Metals (April 01, 2010)
Peregrine Metals (PGM-T) is fast-tracking a preliminary economic assessment on a solvent extraction-electrowin…
Goldcorp Squeezes Out Barrick, Joins New Gold At El Morro
Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) and New Gold (NGD-T, NGD-X) have crushed Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) plan to buy control of a major copper-gold project in northern Chile, leaving at least one analyst wondering…