David Harquail, president and CEO of gold royalty company Franco-Nevada, first came to the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention when he was a kid in the sixties. His job was to transport rye and scotch from his…
China’s first corporate bond default and fears of a slowdown in the Chinese economy and concern over the crisis in the Ukraine ahead of a referendum in Crimea combined to send the S&P/TSX Composite Index down 0.50% to 14,227.66 and…
Martin Murenbeeld, chief economist at Dundee Capital Markets, says he’s “mildly bullish” about this year’s gold price.
VANCOUVER — A 1.7-million oz. estimate for the North Kao deposit at True Gold Mining’s (TSXV: TGM; US-OTC: RVREF) Karma property in Burkina Faso is reminding investors that the feasibility stage gold project has lots of room…
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index lost 9.35 points during weekly trading en route to a 1,033.64-point close. Reports out of China indicated growth rates across industrial sectors had dropped to multi-year lows, while markets also…
VANCOUVER — In a climate of lower gold prices and rising costs, gold producers have been focusing on improving operations at established mines, and Vancouver-based Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) is no exception. The company’s…
VANCOUVER — There haven’t been many modern permitting processes in Canada that have cast as large a shadow as the federal government’s recent rejection on environmental grounds of Taseko Mines’ (TSX: TKO; NYSE-MKT:…
Investors turned jittery over the period, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 388 points to 16,065.67, the S&P 500 Index shedding 36 points to 1,841.13 and the Nasdaq Composite Index 87 points lower to 4,245.40.
VANCOUVER — Canadian non-profit research group the Fraser Institute has released its annual Survey of Mining Companies, which gauges the geographic investment temperature by polling 690 exploration, development and other mining-related…
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE:ABX) has sold part of its 74%-stake in its subsidiary African Barrick Gold (LSE: ABG; US-OTC: ABGLF), in a move to keep optimizing its portfolio amid weaker gold prices.
Although the move was long anticipated due to his chronic ill health, it still felt surprising that Canada’s third-longest serving finance minister, Jim Flaherty, was finally resigning from cabinet after eight years in the post.
Spot pricesCourtesy of Scotiabank Tuesday, March 11 2014Precious MetalsPrice…
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