TSX remains stable, April 17-21
Statistics Canada reported that Canada’s Consumer Price Index rose 1.6% year-on-year in March, after a 2% gain in February. The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 0.5% to 15,614.48, while the Canadian…
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Nighthawk cashed up, drilling 25,000 metres
Nighthawk Gold (TSXV: NHK) recently raised $25.1 million in equity to finance exploration at its Indin Lake gold project in the Northwest Territories, and Nighthawk president and CEO Michael Byron…
Gold Standard Ventures to acquire Battle Mountain Gold
Gold Standard Ventures (TSXV: GSV; NYSE-MKT: GSV) acquired an initial 19.9% stake in Battle Mountain Gold (TSXV: BMG) in April 2016, and two months later, raised its ownership in the company to 27.6%….
US markets remain flat, April 3-7
U.S. President Donald Trump’s unexpected decision to launch a U.S. military strike on a Syrian government airbase on April 6 failed to roil markets in New York as expected, but…
Copper needs more investment, analyst says
AllianceBernstein, a global investment management firm with an independent sell-side research arm, is calling for greater investment in copper to build enough capacity to meet demand. “At a conservative estimate,…
Klondex adds high-grade ounces at Manitoba’s True North
During his presentation in February at the BMO Global Metals & Mining conference in Hollywood, Fla., Paul Huet promised that Klondex Mines (TSX: KDX) would deliver an updated resource estimate…
Pure Gold hits new zone at Madsen
Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM) has found a new zone at its Russet South target, 1.5 km northeast of the old Madsen mine on its wholly owned Madsen gold project in…
TSX dips while gold rises, March 20-24
U.S. President Donald Trump’s failure to repeal and replace Obamacare put downward pressure on global stock markets and drove up the price of safe haven assets like gold. The S&P/TSX…
Keith Barron back on the hunt for riches of Ecuador’s Lost Cities
The remarkable story of Aurelian Resources and its discovery of Fruta del Norte — a blind gold deposit the company’s geologists found in the Cordillera del Condor in southeastern Ecuador…
Callinex grows Flin Flon footprint
Over the last two years, Callinex Mines (TSXV: CNX; US-OTC: CLLXF) has raised $15 million on the back of exploration success at its Pine Bay polymetallic project in Manitoba. Pine…
Kakula hit drives up Ivanhoe shares
A new step-out hole has doubled the strike length of the copper-rich mineralized system at the Kakula deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC:…
Financier Stephen Dattels banks on lithium
Many people in the industry will remember Stephen Dattels as the founder of UraMin, a company he set up in 2005 to develop uranium properties in Africa, and which he…