Goldcorp offers $520M for Kaminak
Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) has offered to buy Kaminak Gold (TSXV: KAM) in a $520-million, all-share deal to get its hands on the junior’s high-grade Coffee gold project in…
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Erdene’s Bayan Khundii gold discovery in Mongolia
VANCOUVER — Erdene Resource Development’s (TSX: ERD; US-OTC: ERDCF) presence in Mongolia dates back to the late 1990s, and it has experienced the good and bad of the oft-volatile country. The…
TNM parent Glacier Media donates to Fort Mac
The JuneWarren-Nickle’s Energy Group (JWN) and its parent company Glacier Media (TSX: GVC) (also The Northern Miner‘s parent), are donating $50,000 toward Red Cross efforts in the wildfire-ravaged city of…
Veteran miner Kerry Knoll bets on moly renaissance
Since leaving his job as a journalist at The Northern Miner in 1987, Kerry Knoll has co-founded four companies and built four mines with his business partner Ian McDonald. Their…
Endeavour Silver to acquire Oro Silver Resources
Endeavour Silver’s (TSX: EDR; NYSE: EXK) search for development opportunities to shore up its portfolio of three producing silver mines in Mexico has resulted in an agreement to acquire Oro…
Falco outlines $905M gold mine in Horne PEA
VANCOUVER — Falco Resources (TSXV: FPC; US-OTC: FPRGF) hopes to have the historic Horne gold complex in Quebec back in production by 2020. On May 9, the company released a preliminary…
Netolitzky’s Skeena raises expectations for Spectrum
VANCOUVER – Skeena Resources’ (TSXV: SKE; US-OTC: SKREF) first resource for its Spectrum gold project, 37 km west of Imperial Metals’ (TSX: III; US-OTC: IPMLF) Red Chris mine in northwest…
Editorial: Taking stock of the wildfires that ravaged Fort McMurray
While there are no metals, minerals or coal in the nearby ground, the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta — as ground zero of Canada’s massive oilsands industry and all the…
Intrepid closes West facility amid weak potash prices
Intrepid Potash (NYSE: IPI) is temporarily shutting its largest potash mine amid weak fundamentals, after swinging into a loss in the first quarter. On May 9, the company posted an…
Freeport to sell Tenke stake for US$2.7B
VANCOUVER — Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) has been working to reduce its sky-high debt loads, and on May 9 it made the deepest cut to date. The company has agreed to sell…
Drilling pays off for Richmont at Island Gold
Richmont Mines (TSX: RIC; NYSE-MKT: RIC) shares got a boost after exploration drilling confirmed the Island Gold mine near Wawa, Ont., continues to grow in size. The 77.7 sq. km property…
TSX Venture eases down, May 2-6
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index edged down 0.2%, or 5.93 points, en route to a 668.94-point close, weakened by falling commodity prices. Spot gold dropped 0.4%, or US$4.54, to US$1,288.99…