2014


Aegean Metals Group president and CEO Eric Roth (far right) speaks to geologists at the Hot Maden gold-copper project in Turkey, 1,050 km east of Istanbul. Credit: Aegean Metals Group

Eric Roth’s Aegean Metals sees upside in Turkey

VANCOUVER — It was a quiet couple of years for Eric Roth after Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY) snapped up his Extorre Gold Mines and its Cerro Moro project in Argentina for US$400 million in mid-2012. But now as president…


Stillwater Mining's East Boulder PGM mine in Montana. Credit: Stillwater Mining

Stillwater keeps its PGM costs down

Stillwater Mining (TSX: SWC.U; NYSE: SWC) has gone back to the basics and is refocused on its platinum group metals (PGM) assets in Montana, under the direction of its relatively new board, with noticeably good results.


TSX up slightly, Aug. 11-15

The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 0.71% to 15,304.24 while the S&P/TSX Capped Metals & Mining Index fell 2.06% to 885.07. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index climbed 0.36% to 204.05 and the spot price for gold lost US$4.60 per oz., to…


Bre-X Minerals personnel at the Busang property in Indonesia in 1996, from left: Jerry Alo, John Felderhof, Michael de Guzman and Cesar Puspos. Photo by Vivian Danielson of The Northern Miner.

Bre-X film gains traction in Hollywood

The producer/director of an upcoming major motion picture based on the Bre-X Minerals fraud is in the final stages of financing and confirms he is in negotiations with an A-list Hollywood actor to play a lead role.



Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Miedzi Copper loses Poland concessions

Ross Beaty isn’t the type of businessman who normally airs his grievances in public. But when two of his copper concessions in Poland were apparently revoked by the Polish government, he felt he had no choice.







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