Kirkland Lake Gold boosts production forecast 2019–2021
A jump in the reserve grade and tonnage at Fosterville in Australia — already one of the highest grade and most profitable gold mines in the world — will help…
Volume 105 Number 5 March 4 – 17, 2019
Nighthawk finds more high-grade gold showings in NWT
Regional exploration last year on its Indin Lake gold property, 200 km north of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, turned up high-grade gold in grab samples from three areas, including…
TSX Venture moves higher, Feb. 18-22: New Pacific Metals; Amex Exploration; Bluestone Resources; Parrallel Mining
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index rose 1.19% to finish the trading week at 623.27. New Pacific Metals released the second batch of assay results this year from its Silver Sand…
TSX ends in positive territory, Feb. 18-22: Teck, Torex, Osisko Gold Royalties
The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 1.10% to finish the trading week at 16,013. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index increased 3.40% to 75.49, while the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index jumped…
US markets post slight gain, Feb. 18-22: Newmont, Rio Tinto
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.57% to 26,031.81, while the S&P 500 Index increased 0.62% to 2,792.67. Spot gold finished the week at US$1,337.80 per oz., up US$16.40 per…
Commentary: Four traps in US mining law for the unwary Canadian miner
Acquiring unpatented mining claims on federal “public lands” in the United States is considerably different than acquiring tenures under the mining law in Canada or elsewhere in the world where…
Bristow seeks to build the world’s most valuable gold company
In a one hour and forty-five minute conference call on Feb. 13, barely seven weeks after the merger of Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) and Randgold Resources became effective…
Harte Gold completes resource update for Sugar
Harte Gold’s (TSX: HRT; US-OTC: HRTFF) Sugar Zone gold mine in northern Ontario reached commercial production on Jan. 1, and permitting is underway to increase throughput to 800 tonnes per…
Commentary: Partnerships with First Nations key to Canada’s mining resurgence
If you are reading this on a cell phone or a computer, you have fueled the demand for the dozens of minerals that go into those devices. Copper, nickel, zinc,…
Black Iron, Glencore discuss offtake for Shymanivske in Ukraine
Black Iron (TSX: BKI; US-OTC: BKIRF) and Glencore (LON: GLEN) are in talks to finance construction of the junior’s Shymanivske iron ore project in Ukraine, and have signed a non-binding…
Cost-overruns sink shares of Nemaska Lithium
Eight months after the start of construction of its Whabouchi lithium project in Quebec, Nemaska Lithium (TSX: NMX; US-OTC: NMKEF) says it will cost another $375 million to complete the…
Bolivia’s door creaks open to foreign mining investment
SANTIAGO, CHILE — A first-of-its kind deal between Bolivia’s state mining company Comibol and Vancouver-based explorer New Pacific Metals (TSXV: NUAG; US-OTC: NUPMF) promises to usher in a new period of…