US markets down, March 18-22: Vale, Wheaton Precious Metals and Franco-Nevada
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.34% to finish the trading week at 25,502.32, and the S&P 500 Index lost 0.77% to end the week at 2,800.71. Spot gold rose…
Articles by Trish Saywell
B2Gold earmarks US$43M for global exploration
B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-AM: BTG) was created as a junior exploration company in 2007, and since then it has grown to become an intermediate gold producer, with five mines in…
Troilus drills ‘land that time forgot’ in central Quebec
Between listing on the TSX Venture Exchange in January 2018 and graduating to the Toronto Stock Exchange in October the same year, Troilus Gold (TSX: TLG; US-OTC: CHXMF) drilled 36,000…
Monarch Gold targets multiple projects
Since the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference wrapped up in early March, Monarch Gold (TSX: MQR; US-OTC: MRQRF) has fielded calls from three mining companies about possible…
Newcrest to buy 70% of Red Chris for US$807M
Newcrest Mining (ASX: NCM) says there is potential to transform Imperial Metals’ (TSX: III) Red Chris copper-gold mine in northwestern British Columbia into a tier-one operation, and is spending US$806.5…
Barrick and Newmont forge ‘historic’ joint venture in Nevada
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) has abandoned its hostile takeover bid for Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM), after the companies struck a joint-venture deal on their Nevada assets. Barrick will…
Aurania Resources finds more copper at Lost Cities–Cutucu
Gold-oriented Aurania Resources (TSXV: ARU) is finding as much copper as gold in the early innings of exploration at its Lost Cities–Cutucu project in southeastern Ecuador. In January the junior…
US markets down, March 4-8: Yamana, Goldcorp, Alamos, Kinross
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.21% to finish the week at 25,450.24, and the S&P 500 Index lost 2.20% to end the week at 2,743.07. Spot gold rose US$4.80…
Gran Colombia Gold works with artisanal miners
With several underground mines and two processing plants at its Segovia and Marmato operations in Colombia, Gran Colombia Gold (TSX: GCM; US-OTC: TPRFF) is the South American country’s largest underground…
Gold Standard Ventures’ Railroad an ‘attractive target,’ Macquarie says
With Barrick Gold’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) now-abandoned hostile takeover bid for Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) putting new scrutiny of both companies’ assets in Nevada, Gold Standard Ventures’ (TSX: GSV;…
Newmont rejects Barrick takeover, suggests Nevada JV
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) is attempting to “bite off substantially more than it can chew,” and has “a poor M&A track record,” Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) CEO Gary…
Barrick launches hostile bid for Newmont
A merger of Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) and Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) would create over US$7 billion in real synergies, with more than half of them stemming from…