Wall Street gains, April 17–21
U.S. equities edged up, as the Trump administration confirmed that it would soon reveal a tax reform package to boost the economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.5% to…
Africa
Teranga eyes building Banfora in Burkina Faso in 2017
Teranga Gold (TSX: TGZ; ASX: TGZ) aims to build its Banfora gold mine in Burkina Faso, which would become its second West African gold mine, with construction expected to start…
TNM Data Miner: Trends in Canadian equity finance and investment
The Northern Miner has joined forces again with sister company Infomine to leverage the powerful Intelligence Mine database to outline trends in equity financing for Canadian mining during the most recent market downturn….
TNM Data Miner: Top-five global copper intercepts in March
Using the IntelligenceMine database of our sister company Infomine, The Northern Miner compiled five projects with the top copper intersections (grade multiplied by width) globally in March 2017, as reported publicly. XANADU MINES 1….
Copper needs more investment, analyst says
AllianceBernstein, a global investment management firm with an independent sell-side research arm, is calling for greater investment in copper to build enough capacity to meet demand. “At a conservative estimate,…
Trevali to buy Glencore’s Rosh Pinah, Perkoa mines
VANCOUVER — Trevali Mining (TSX: TV) is set to become a larger player in the zinc business with a $400-million deal to buy two zinc mines and several development assets…
PDAC 2017: Lukas Lundin on patience and his early successes
Mining tycoon Lukas Lundin, chairman of the Lundin Group, spoke with The Northern Miner at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in March about his early successes in Argentina…
Kakula hit drives up Ivanhoe shares
A new step-out hole has doubled the strike length of the copper-rich mineralized system at the Kakula deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC:…
PDAC 2017: Rick Rule likens prospect generators to ‘partial lottery tickets’
Rick Rule, president and CEO of Sprott U.S. Holdings, shared his top investment ideas and views on exploration in an interview on the sidelines of the recent Prospectors & Developers…
PDAC 2017: Randgold’s Bristow on managing gold price cyclicality
Randgold Resources’ (LSE: RRS; NASDAQ: GOLD) chief executive Mark Bristow gave a talk on how to create and protect shareholder value in gold mining during the March 6 keynote session…
Saskatchewan the best place to invest, Fraser Institute says
Saskatchewan takes the crown as the most attractive jurisdiction for investment in the Fraser Institute’s annual Survey of Mining Companies 2016, moving up from second place in 2015, and dethroning Western…
Exclusive interview: Lukas Lundin on the state of the mining industry
VANCOUVER — Lukas Lundin, chairman of the Lundin Group of Companies, sat down with The Northern Miner via Skype from Switzerland for an in-depth discussion on the current state of…