How Goldcorp Continues To Grow
VANCOUVER– Goldcorp’s (G-T, GG-N) president and CEO, Chuck Jeannes, presented a measured but positive outlook for his company as a keynote speaker at the Mineral Exploration Roundup convention here, …
Volume 95 Number 50 - Feb 1 - Feb 7, 2010
Canadian Mining Hall Of Fame Welcomes Five Inductees
The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame marked its 22nd anniversary by inducting a cast of five bona fide mining heavyweights at a cere m o ny at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto in mid-January.
Citibank Weighs In On Long-Term Pricing
Rising structural costs, limited projects, riskier geographies and infrastructure bottlenecks will all put “upside pressure” on long-term commodity prices, Citigroup Global Markets asserts in a Jan. 1…
Eldorado To Restart White Mountain
A dispute over alleged water contamination that shut down Eldorado Gold’s (ELD-T) White Mountain gold mine in China’s Jilin province for five months has been resolved and the company says it expects t…
Toronto Stock Exchange -Jan. 19-25
Miners helped drag down the TSX composite index over the Jan. 19-25 trading period in a serious way. The TSX itself fell 3.3%, or 396.03 points, to 11,354.51 points while the Capped Metals and Mining …
TSX Venture Exchange -Jan. 19-25
A week of losses all but erased the gains the S&P TSX Venture composite index had made in the first two weeks of the new year — over the Jan. 19-25 trading period the board lost 58.87 points to c…
U.S. Markets -Jan. 19-25
The Jan. 19-25 trading period was one many investors in U.S.-listed equities probably would like to forget. The Dow Jones industrial average sank 528.57 points or 4.93% to finish at 10,196.86, while t…
Great Basin Sees Big Future In Nevada
SITE VISIT ELKO, NEVADA — In the dry, rolling hills of southeast Nevada, Great Basin Gold (GBG-X) has sought out epithermal expertise and underground experience to develop a profitable, safe gold mine, chasing narrow, high-grade veins into…
Evolving Gold Explores Wyoming’s Rattlesnake Hills
SITE VISIT NATRONA COUNTY, WYOMING — Two questions spring to mind at first mention of Evolving Gold’s (EVG-V) Rattlesnake Hills gold project, located 70 km west of Casper. First, are there any rattlesnakes here? Oh, yes. Second, and perhaps…
The Silver Wheaton Success Story
VANCOUVER– The basics of the Silver Wheaton (SLW-T) story are fairly well known — a small group from Wheaton River Minerals broke away after the Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) merger to found a company built …
Red Hill To Combine Forces With Prophecy
The boards of juniors Red Hill Energy (RH-V) and Prophecy Resource (PCY-V) have unanimously given the thumbs up to a friendly merger that will see the new company holding a diversified portfolio of th…
It’s Raining Gold For Rainy River
Thick gold-rich intercepts helped gather some momentum behind Rainy River Resources’ (RR-V) stock.