Mining’s slow march towards workforce diversity
VANCOUVER — Glencore Xstrata (LSE: GLEN) will appoint a woman to its board by year-end, a move that will end its stance as the only British blue-chip company with an all-male board.
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RTG Mining has big plans in the Philippines
The former management team of CGA Mining, which redeveloped and opened the Masbate gold mine in the Philippines and then merged last year with B2 Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-MKT: BTG) in a deal worth US$1.1 billion, is hoping to repeat some of that…
Dominion Diamond’s sparkling start in fiscal 2015
Toronto-based Dominion Diamond (TSX: DDC; NYSE: DDC) reported a strong operational start to the year, with higher-than-expected diamond production, sales and average prices for its first quarter of fiscal 2015.
Rio Alto to buy Sulliden Gold for $300M
Gold producer Rio Alto Mining (TSX: RIO; NYSE: RIOM) is acquiring developer Sulliden Gold (TSX: SUE, US-OTC: SDDDF) in a friendly $300-million, all-share deal to create a new mid-tier gold firm with low-cost operations in Peru.
TriMetals Mining rises from the ashes of Bolivia
In the nearly half-century he has worked in the mining industry, Ralph Fitch has pretty much seen it all.
Arianne Phosphate grows Lac Paul
Arianne Phosphate (TSXV: DAN; US-OTC: DRRSF) says one of the world’s largest greenfield phosphate-rock projects has just gotten bigger, with near-surface inferred resources added from the Lac à Paul deposit’s Nicole zone in…
Are the clouds parting for juniors?
Junior gold explorer Novo Resources (CNSX: NVO) checks all the boxes: it’s led by a well-known, connected and respected geologist; it has several prospective gold projects (one of which has an inferred resource) in the low-risk…
True Gold making Karma a reality in Burkina Faso
True Gold Mining (TSXV:TGM) is gaining market momentum, as it gears up to build its flagship Karma gold mine project in north–central Burkina Faso.
Resource grows at Continental’s Buritic in Colombia
Continental Gold (TSX: CNL; US-OTC: CGOOF) has updated the resource estimate for the two major vein systems at its Buritica gold project in Colombia. Both systems are characterized by multiple, steeply dipping veins and broader, more…
TSX accelerates, May 19-23
Energy and banking stocks helped drive the S&P/TSX Composite Index higher, while Canada’s main stock index also got a lift from reassuring comments mid-week in the U.S. from the Federal Reserve that it remains committed to withdrawing…
U.S. stock markets continue to roll, May 19-23
U.S. stock markets shunned the bears and rewarded the bulls — while dismissing the old adage to ‘sell in May and go away.’ With stronger-than-expected manufacturing numbers out of Asia pointing to resilience in global growth,…
Fewer mining dollars spent and earned in BC
VANCOUVER — In its forty-sixth annual mining industry survey, PwC’s Digging Deep: The Mining Industry in British Columbia 2013 reflects a difficult year for the sector across all commodities.