Six months after Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) agreed to sell its 56% stake in the Tenke Fungurume copper-cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to China Molybdenum, joint-venture…
Expectations by many that Donald Trump’s electoral victory would boost the U.S. economy sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 5.4%, or 959.38 points, to 18,847.66. The S&P 500 Index…
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index dove 34.07 points, or 4.5%, to a 727.91-point close in the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election. Spot gold prices dropped US$77.42 to US$1,227.64 per…
Rob McEwen, chairman and chief owner of McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX), shared his thoughts with The Northern Miner about the election of Donald J. Trump as the forty-fifth…
Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) announced on Nov. 8 that it had suspended operations at its Constancia copper mine in Peru for safety reasons after trespassers entered the open-pit…
Atalaya Mining’s (TSX: AYM; LSE: ATYM) Proyecto Riotinto copper mine in the Andalucia region of Spain is on the verge of producing 90 million lb. copper (42,000 tonnes copper) in…
News that Canada’s gross domestic product expanded 0.2% in August after a 0.4% increase in July, and unease about the outcome of the U.S. presidential race, sent the S&P/TSX Composite…
A year ago, Sandspring Resources (TSXV: SSP; US-OTC: SSPXF) “couldn’t beg, buy or steal money,” CEO Richard Munson says, “and there was a period of time when I was lending…
The O’Brien gold mine in the Abitibi region of northwestern Quebec was the richest mine by grade along the Larder Lake-Cadillac Fault between 1926 and 1957, when miners intermittently made…
Darnley Bay Resources (TSXV: DBL) is acquiring 42 zinc-lead deposits over a 68 km strike length in the Northwest Territories, and the junior explorer’s management team is providing a clear…
Real gross domestic product in the third quarter increased at a 2.9% annual rate, according to an advance estimate by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Real GDP in the…
In January, Klondex Mines (TSX: KDX; NYSE-MKT: KLDX) negotiated a deal with creditors to buy the Rice Lake gold mine and mill complex near Bisset, Man., for US$32 million. The…
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