Kirkland Lake Gold boosts production forecast 2019–2021
A jump in the reserve grade and tonnage at Fosterville in Australia — already one of the highest grade and most profitable gold mines in the world — will help…
Articles by Trish Saywell
Nighthawk finds more high-grade gold showings in NWT
Regional exploration last year on its Indin Lake gold property, 200 km north of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, turned up high-grade gold in grab samples from three areas, including…
TSX Venture moves higher, Feb. 18-22: New Pacific Metals; Amex Exploration; Bluestone Resources; Parrallel Mining
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index rose 1.19% to finish the trading week at 623.27. New Pacific Metals released the second batch of assay results this year from its Silver Sand…
TSX ends in positive territory, Feb. 18-22: Teck, Torex, Osisko Gold Royalties
The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 1.10% to finish the trading week at 16,013. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index increased 3.40% to 75.49, while the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index jumped…
US markets post slight gain, Feb. 18-22: Newmont, Rio Tinto
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.57% to 26,031.81, while the S&P 500 Index increased 0.62% to 2,792.67. Spot gold finished the week at US$1,337.80 per oz., up US$16.40 per…
Bristow seeks to build the world’s most valuable gold company
In a one hour and forty-five minute conference call on Feb. 13, barely seven weeks after the merger of Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) and Randgold Resources became effective…
Harte Gold completes resource update for Sugar
Harte Gold’s (TSX: HRT; US-OTC: HRTFF) Sugar Zone gold mine in northern Ontario reached commercial production on Jan. 1, and permitting is underway to increase throughput to 800 tonnes per…
Black Iron, Glencore discuss offtake for Shymanivske in Ukraine
Black Iron (TSX: BKI; US-OTC: BKIRF) and Glencore (LON: GLEN) are in talks to finance construction of the junior’s Shymanivske iron ore project in Ukraine, and have signed a non-binding…
Cost-overruns sink shares of Nemaska Lithium
Eight months after the start of construction of its Whabouchi lithium project in Quebec, Nemaska Lithium (TSX: NMX; US-OTC: NMKEF) says it will cost another $375 million to complete the…
Kerr Mines targets 2020 production at Copperstone
Kerr Mines (TSX: KER; US-OTC: KERMF) expects to mine and stockpile mineralized material from its Copperstone gold project in Arizona in the fourth quarter of this year, with production starting…
US markets post slight gains: Vale, Cleveland Cliffs, Buenaventura, Franco-Nevada, Peabody Energy
The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a marginal 0.17% gain to 25,106.33, while the S&P 500 Index ended 0.05% higher at 2,707.88. Despite a rising dollar, spot gold held above…
McEwen closes in on production at Gold Bar
McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX) will soon be pouring first gold at its new Gold Bar mine in central Nevada, just 14 months after breaking ground in November 2017….