ZACATECAS, MEXICO — Defiance Silver (TSXV: DEF; US-OTC: DNCVF) is determined to beat the odds and secure the funds it needs to bring the San Acacio project — containing the past-producing San Acacio silver mine and the Santa…
The S&P/TSX Composite Index closed up 176 points to 12,892.11, as investors hoped for a resolution to the budget impasse south of the border. The situation was doubly bad for commodities, as lower U.S. bond prices pushed yields higher,…
VANCOUVER — Mexico-focused producer Endeavour Silver (TSX: EDR; NYSE: EXK) has benefitted from a bounceback in production over the past three months, as the company saw both its silver and gold output jump.
VANCOUVER — Things look to be heating up for junior explorer WCB Resources (TSXV: WCB) on the small island of Misima, 630 km southeast of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The company has laid low for nearly a year, but it seems to have…
VANCOUVER — It’s a humbler market environment for mine developers, and Vancouver-based Sabina Gold & Silver (TSX: SBB) looks to have taken that into account with a more modest prefeasibility study (PFS) of its Back River gold…
Spot pricesCourtesy of ScotiabankTuesday, October 15, 2013Precious MetalsPrice…
After pretty much inventing the precious-metal-stream business back in 2004, Silver Wheaton (TSX: SLW; NYSE: SLW) has noticed the landscape getting more crowded.
VANCOUVER — North America needs lots of it, but doesn’t produce any. It is integral to a raft of important new technologies, from lithium-ion batteries to pebble-bed nuclear reactors. It is also the raw ingredient behind graphene,…
Shares of Pretium Resources (TSX: PVG; NYSE: PVG) plunged 30.5% on Oct. 9 after Strathcona Mineral Services withdrew from the high-grade Brucejack gold-silver project in northwestern B.C.
For today’s risk-averse mining investor, there is a level of comfort that comes from a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) that affects an exploration project’s success or failure. As a technical document, it is a tool for…
When Richard O’Brien left his post as CEO of Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM; TSX: NMC) in December 2012, after five years in the job and seven at the company, he wasn’t ready to “hang up his pick” just yet.
A study on the direct economic impact of gold — commissioned by the World Gold Council — gathers, for the first time, all the evidence of the precious metal’s economic and fiscal contribution, author PricewaterhouseCoopers…
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