The S&P 500 touched a five-year high on the back of stronger housing and jobs numbers. Housing starts in December rose 12.1%—the biggest advance since June 2008—while applications for unemployment benefits dropped to their…
It is with some nostalgia that we look back at 2012, a year of pride and celebration for the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC). We wrapped up a year of special initiatives to mark our association’s 100th…
VANCOUVER — Robert Friedland’s latest Vancouver-based venture looks to be following a familiar template. On Jan. 17 Ivanplats (IVP-T) released an updated resource on its Kamoa discovery in Central Africa that boosted the project’s…
VANCOUVER – After a busy 2012, Eurasian Minerals (EMX-V) is starting 2013 off with a bang: in its first news release of the year the company reported the highest-grade intercept to date at Akarca, the gold-silver project in northwest…
Eco Oro Minerals (EOM-T) has moved one step closer in advancing the Angostura gold-silver project in northeastern Colombia, after noting the deposit sits largely outside of the recently approved regional park boundaries, causing its shares…
Shares of Argonaut Gold (AR-T) jumped nearly 5% to $10.09 after the company reported production results for the fourth quarter and for all of 2012.
Copper Mountain Mining (CUM –T) missed its production guidance but the market seemed unfazed by the news.
VANCOUVER – Seabridge Gold’s (SEA-T) KSM project is already one of the largest undeveloped gold projects in the world, home to 38 million ounces of gold and 10 billion pounds of copper. But with drills tapping into deep core zones and new…
VANCOUVER — London-based mining giant Rio Tinto (RIO-N, RIO-L, RIO-A) continues to be haunted by the ghosts of past acquisitions, with the largest culprit being its US$38-billion takeover of Montreal-based aluminum leader Alcan in 2007.
Chuck Fipke, a minority shareholder in the Ekati joint venture, is trying to block BHP Billiton (BHP-N, BLT-L, BHP-A) from selling its majority interest in the Ekati diamond mine to Harry Winston (HW-T, HWD-N) for US$500 million.
VANCOUVER — It has been roughly three years since Vancouver-based uranium explorer Kivalliq Energy (KIV-V) began drilling in earnest at its 1,377-sq.km Angilak property in Nunavut. The company long maintained it was looking at a…
As the natural resources available on land become less and our need for them grows, exploration activities move offshore.
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