While much of the global mining industry has been limping along under sagging commodities prices and looming oversupply, one of the brightest spots has been the Canadian diamond-mining industry, which has weathered its wild, rocky youth and…
VANCOUVER — In 2011 the metallurgical coal market was hot. Chinese demand seemed insatiable and floods had disrupted Australian supplies, pushing prices as high as US$300 a tonne.
The Toronto stock market had a strong run heading into the Easter holiday, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index gaining 24 points to 14,500.39, nearing a six-year high on the back of positive Chinese and U.S. economic data.
VANCOUVER — Clifton Star Resources (TSXV: CFO; US-OTC: CFMSF) could turn its Duparquet project in Quebec into an open-pit gold mine for $394 million, according to a new prefeasibility study.
U.S. markets bounced back over the holiday shortened period after two straight periods of giving up ground. A modest surprise to the upside in China’s growth domestic product drove gains for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which…
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index was quiet during the four-day week before Easter. Two days of small gains overturned two days in the red, lifting the index 1 point to 998.77. Daily trading volumes averaged 66.8 million.
Molybdenum prices in Europe have risen rapidly after the World Trade Organization (WTO) confirmed that the export duties and quotas imposed by China on molybdenum are incompatible with its WTO obligations. This report concludes a dispute…
In April, CRU analyst Helen O’Cleary forecast that enormous deficits of zinc will emerge in 2017 and 2018.
VANCOUVER — Sandstorm Gold (TSX: SSL, NYSE-MKT: SAND) president and CEO Nolan Watson says the calls from shareholders requesting he “clean up” sister company Sandstorm Metals & Energy (TSXV: SND, US-OTC: STTYF) have…
Joy Global snaps up Sudbury firm
Toronto-based Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR; US-OTC: ARNGF) reported slightly higher first-quarter production from its two gold–silver mines in northern Mexico, but that wasn’t enough to pick up the junior’s recently declining stock,…
VANCOUVER — According to CEO Patrick Anderson, explorer Dalradian Resources (TSX: DNA) has developed a “superior geological model” at its Curraghinalt lode-gold deposit 127 km west of Belfast, Northern Ireland, that is…
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