US equities rally, July 11-15
Positive economic data for the month of June, including improved retail sales and industrial production, and a firming of inflation, extended the rally in U.S. equities. The Dow Jones Industrial…
Articles by Trish Saywell
Golden Arrow options Antofalla in Argentina’s Catamarca province
Golden Arrow Resources (TSXV: GRG; US-OTC: GARWF) is best known for its Chinchillas silver-lead-zinc project in Argentina’s Jujuy province, but the prospect generator also has properties in the country’s San…
It’s full speed ahead for Roxgold
The early exercise of warrants by International Finance Corp. (IFC) gives Roxgold (TSXV: ROG) US$9 million to add to the US$33.8 million it already has in the bank. With another…
TomaGold tees up second major
What strikes you about David Grondin, the president and CEO of TomaGold (TSXV: LOT), is not just his youth — he has yet to turn 40 — but that he…
Sparton banks on vanadium
Over the course of his 54 years in the business, Canadian geologist and engineer Lee Barker has had many rewarding moments. In the early 1970s he recognized and staked the…
Dow Jones and S&P 500 end lower, June 13-17
The U.S. Federal Reserve held rates steady ahead of Britain voting on whether to leave or stay in the European Union. The central bank’s decision was supported by 277,000 weekly…
Brexit fears weigh on TSX, June 13-17
Worries that Britain might vote to leave the European Union in a referendum on June 23 sent Canada’s main stock index down 0.97% to 13,901.77. A vote to leave the…
Pilot Gold acquires past-producer in Idaho
The purchase of a past-producing heap leach mine in southeastern Idaho marks Pilot Gold’s (TSX: PLG) first acquisition this year and underscores the junior’s heightened focus on gold projects in…
Marathon Gold sets the stage for PEA
Marathon Gold’s (TSX: MOZ) wholly owned Valentine Lake gold project in Newfoundland is one of the few open-pit projects in Canada that isn’t controlled by a major, president and CEO…
Angkor Gold reels in Jogmec
When Mike Weeks first started nosing around for mineral concessions in Cambodia in late 2008 and early 2009, the typical reaction he got from people in the business was that…
PwC’s Top 40 sees many ‘firsts’ in 2015 — most of them bad
Last year, the mining companies on PwC’s Top 40 list, measured by market cap, chalked up their first-ever collective net loss of US$27 billion and their lowest return on capital…
TSX edges lower, June 6-10
Canada’s unemployment rate in May fell to 6.9%, its lowest level since July 2015, but the news was tempered by worries about slowing global economic growth and concerns that Britain…