Strait Gold nestles into Peru’s golden area (December 25, 2006)
If location is everything in exploration as it is in real estate, Strait Gold’s (SRD-V) Culebrilla property in the Andes Mountains, near Ancash, Peru, has the company in good shape.
Barrick Gold Corporation
Int’l Royalty to buy NSR on Barrick’s Pascua-Lama
Vancouver – International Royalty (IRC-T, ROY-X) has inked a deal to purchase a sliding-scale net smelter return ro…
TSX goes global with gold index (December 18, 2006)
To suit its beefed-up list that now includes non-Canadian gold companies, the Standard & Poor/Toronto Stock Exchang…
Midway Gold plans takeover of Pan-Nevada
Vancouver – Midway Gold (MDW-V, MDWGF-O) looks to boost its Nevada footprint and gold resource through a planned ta…
Barrick’s bid for NovaGold expires
Vancouver — With the clock ticking down on its US$16.00-per-share bid for control of NovaGold Resources (NG-T, NG-X) at presstime, Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) appears likely to become nothing more th…
Teck Cominco investing US$25 million into Nautilus
Vancouver – Nautilus Minerals (NUS-V, NUSMF-O) has secured another major mining company financing with Teck Cominco…
Editorial: Mining and CSR, Part I
Major mining companies and most juniors have adopted progressive environmental and social policies designed to help them gain their “social licence” to operate, at home or abroad.
Editorial: Mining and CSR, part I
Major mining companies and most juniors have adopted progressive environmental and social policies designed to help…
Gold Fields, Sino Gold tighten up
Already holding a significant stake in Australian gold producer Sino Gold (SGX-A), South African mining house Gold …
Western Goldfields buys fleet for California mine
Now that US$60.9 million in fleet equipment has been ordered for the Mesquite gold mine in Imperial County, Califor…
Barrick Waives Minimum Tender Condition in NovaGold Bid
Vancouver — With about 20.6 million shares of NovaGold Resources (NG-T, NG-X) deposited under Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) US$16.00-per-share hostile bid, the gold major has waived the 50.1% minimum…
Kinross to buy Bema for $3.5B
Vancouver — Kinross Gold (K-T, KGC-N) is stepping up the pace of consolidation in the North American gold mining industry, launching a friendly $3.5-billion bid to acquire Bema Gold (BGO-T, BGO-N, BA…