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…
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Wall Street rises, Nov. 21–25
U.S. equities ended holiday-shortened trading in positive territory. The S&P 500 Index rose 1.4% to 2,213.35, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 1.5% to 19,152.14. The Nasdaq Composite Index…
TSX posts marginal gain, Oct. 10-14
Canada’s benchmark index finished 0.1% higher at 14,584.99. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index fell 2.9% to 59.67 and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index slid 0.6% to 205.98. New York spot…
Azure finds silver deposit on top of a hill in Mexico
BEAVER CREEK, COLORADO — When Azure Minerals (ASX: AZS) picked up an option on the Alacran project in Mexico’s northern Sonora state, 12 km south of Grupo Mexico’s Cananea copper…
JDS Silver’s Silvertip project nears production in BC
In its first investment in a Canadian mining company, private equity firm Denham Capital is giving JDS Silver US$65 million to complete construction of Silvertip, a silver-lead-zinc mine in northern…
Teck seeks more cuts despite ‘cost reduction fatigue’
Teck Resources’ (TSX: TCK.B; NYSE: TCK) chief financial officer Ron Millos said the company intends to lower debt and improve operating costs, despite the fact that it is getting harder…
Electrum sees merit in Southern Silver’s Cerro las Minitas
Southern Silver Exploration (TSXV: SSV; US-OTC: SSVFF) likes to think that its Cerro las Minitas silver-lead-zinc project in Durango, Mexico, has a lot going for it. Not only is it…
The geology underlying the quest for minerals on Canada’s East Coast
VANCOUVER — The geology of eastern Canada largely owes itself to a series of events that began 480 million years ago, when the Iapetus Ocean (analogous to today’s Atlantic Ocean) closed…
US equities end lower, July 25-29
U.S. markets ended lower during the last week of July. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 0.8% to finish at 18,432.24 and the S&P 500 Index slipped 0.07% to 2,173.60….
Treasury Metals to acquire Goldeye
Treasury Metals (TSX: TML) and Goldeye Explorations (TSXV: GGY) are planning to combine forces in an all-share deal that would give Treasury another significant gold project in northern Ontario. Treasury…
Colombian Mines’ Nevada acquisition sends shares soaring
Robert Carrington has spent a good part of his career in Nevada and has helped find a number of deposits that became producing mines, including Twin Creek, now owned by…
Editorial: Miners sign on to Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition
The whole field of carbon taxes, cap-and-trade of carbon emissions, and other government initiatives to limit and tax industrial carbon emissions around the world is a complex and dispiriting grab…