TSX Venture rises during the Feb. 7-11 trading week
The S&P/TSX Venture Exchange rose 10.12 points or 1.16% to 868.77. Spot gold climbed US$17.60 per oz. or 0.96% to US$1,831.15 per ounce. Latin Metals climbed 42.9% to 15¢. On…
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TSX rises during the Feb. 7-11 trading week
The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 313.34 points or 1.45% to 21,548.84 during the Feb. 7-11 trading week. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index increased 4.40 points or 3.89% to 113.09 and…
New training program aims to tackle labour shortage, break barriers in mining sector
In a bid to tackle labour shortages in the mining industry, an educational institute in northern Ontario is starting a training program that will aim to attract young people, women,…
Monarch announces high-grade assays as it moves towards production restart at Beaufor mine
Just days after Triple Flag Precious Metals (TSX: TFPM) agreed to acquire a 2.75% net smelter return (NSR) royalty on Monarch Mining’s (TSX: GBAR; US-OTC: GBARF) Beaufor gold mine in…
Apollo Silver reports initial resource for Calico silver project in California
Apollo Silver (TSX.V: APGO; US-OTC: APGOF) has released an initial resource estimate for its Calico silver project, which CEO Tom Peregoodoff describes as “one of the largest undeveloped silver deposits”…
Global mining industry will profit from supporting carbon tax policies: UBC researchers
The global mining industry is going to benefit financially from supporting “harmonized” carbon taxation policies, according to a new study released by the University of British Columbia’s mining institute. Researchers…
Cameco plans restart of McArthur River mine, Key Lake mill this year
Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) is restarting its McArthur River mine and Key Lake mill in Saskatchewan this year, marking a slow easing of the company’s supply discipline as the…
Candente Copper envisages 28-year, open-pit mine at Canariaco Norte in Peru
Candente Copper (TSX: DNT; BVL: DNT; US-OTC: CDOUF) expects to produce 173 million lb. copper a year from its 100% owned Cañariaco Norte copper-gold-silver project 700 km northwest of Lima…
Ontario confirms link between Parkinson’s and McIntyre powder historically inhaled by miners
The Ontario government has formally recognized that an aluminium and aluminium oxide powder called McIntyre powder, which many Ontario miners were required to inhale as a preventive step against silicotic…
Latin Metals signs option agreement with Barrick Gold for properties in Argentina
A wholly owned subsidiary of Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) has signed an option agreement to acquire up to an 85% interest in Latin Metal’s (TSXV: LMS; US-OTC: LMSQF)…
Top mining association to set up protocol to tackle discrimination, sexism by year-end
The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) plans to introduce measures that will “propel” its members to be “more transparent” on issues like sexual harassment and discrimination by the end of…
Fortuna Silver’s San Jose EIA in Mexico extended by two years instead of 12
Fortuna Silver Mines (TSX: FVI; NYSE: FSM) announced that Mexico’s environment ministry made a “typographical error” in the environment impact authorization (EIA) renewal of its San Jose mine in Oaxaca…