Patriot Gold offers ‘arbitrage opportunity’
With depressed commodity prices and shrinking valuations, sometimes it’s arbitrage opportunities that offer some of the more compelling investment opportunities.
Articles by Northern Miner Staff
Silver Wheaton posts strong Q2 results
Canadian streaming company Silver Wheaton (TSX: SLW; NYSE: SLW) posted record quarterly production of nearly 11 million equivalent oz. silver in the three months ended June 30, and for the first time ever, notched quarterly sales…
Klondex blazes ahead, undeterred by low gold prices
Klondex Mines (TSX: KDX; US-OTC: KLNDF) has been a stellar performer despite the current bear market for gold stocks, with its share price steadily on the rise since the end of 2012.
TSX posts marginal dip, Aug. 10-14
The surprise devaluation of China’s currency on Aug. 11 pulled many base metal prices lower on fears that demand from the world’s largest buyer of metals would fall. The price of safe-haven gold, by contrast, rose 1.8% to finish at…
Facts ‘n’ Figures: Coal, nuclear and renewables to boost Vietnam’s electricity capacity
Vietnam is poised to transform its electrical power generation mix over the next two decades, as it modernizes the country’s agrarian economy to become a more industrialized nation. To accommodate greater industrial expansion and support…
Friedland: Mining companies ‘priced for Armageddon’
VANCOUVER — Vanguard executive chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) Robert Friedland took to the stage at the Sprott Natural Resource Symposium in Vancouver in late July, and delivered a talk about why he believes copper…
NexGen triples Arrow deposit in the Athabasca
VANCOUVER — There’s no sign of slowing down for junior explorer NexGen Energy (TSXV: NXE) at its Arrow uranium deposit in the southwestern part of the Athabasca basin in northern Saskatchewan, as recent drilling has tripled the…
Gold Fields spending US$24M exploring Salares Norte this year
The downturn in the mining industry isn’t generating many good news stories these days, but one exception is the promise of untold riches from an undeveloped high-grade gold deposit in the Chilean Andes.
US markets edge higher, Aug. 10-14
A mixture of indicators puzzled investors in U.S. equities, as positive economic data suggested the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates in September, while China’s devaluation seemed to lessen the odds that the U.S. central bank…
Strong headwinds for thermal coal
A year ago, South Africa’s Exxaro Resources (JSE: EXX; US-OTC: EXXAY) agreed to pay US$472 million to acquire 100% of Total’s (NYSE: TOT) South African thermal coal unit Total Coal South Africa Pty., which includes a majority…
Vale green-lights underground mine at Voisey’s Bay
The natural resources industry of Newfoundland and Labrador — beaten down as it is by the steep decline in iron ore and oil prices — has received a most welcome board-level confirmation from Vale that it will indeed pursue…
Eldorado invests $15M in Integra
VANCOUVER — Integra Gold’s (TSX-V: ICG; US-OTC: ICGQF) performance at its Lamaque gold project in the prolific Abitibi greenstone belt, 3 km from the city of Val-d’Or, Quebec, has attracted international miner Eldorado Gold…