The acceleration of capital outflow from emerging markets and tighter liquidity as stimulus ends from the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, a “rebalancing” in China where policymakers are not actively stimulating private…
Vancouver — Silver Wheaton (SLW-T, SLW-N) is the reigning king of silver-stream financing, and the company continued to experience notable growth in 2011.
Financing was a recurring theme at this year’s eightieth Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto. With debt markets in Europe faltering and equity markets globally not performing up to snuff, miners…
Proposed changes to Canada’s Environmental Assessment Act could streamline and simplify the environmental approval process, much in-line with pledges already made by the federal Conservative government.
Wood Mackenzie is forecasting global demand growth for copper this year of 3.6%, a copper deficit of 100,000 tonnes and London Metal Exchange cash prices averaging US$8,700 per tonne, or US$3.95 per lb., down from an average of US$8,800 per…
Vancouver — Sandstorm Gold (SSL-T) is not an exploration or operational mining outfit. The company is not interested in spending equity capital on surface exploration, drill programs or environmental-impact studies. Instead, Sandstorm…
“Gold is money. If you don’t have gold, you better get some,” says Rob McEwen, chairman and CEO of McEwen Mining (MAQ-T, MUX-N), in a corporate presentation at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s…
Rob McEwen is known for thinking outside the box, so it wasn’t surprising to learn that McEwen Mining — a company he created in January through the combination of U.S. Gold and Minera Andes, in which he owns a 25% stake — is…
The golden age of China’s infrastructure investment, housing boom, exports and policy stimulus is behind us, argues Dong Tao, Credit Suisse’s head of non-Japan Asia Economics, in a March 5 report to clients.
The following is an excerpt from the Metals Economics Group’s Worldwide Exploration Trends 2012 report based on the firm’s Corporate Education Strategies series of studies. The exploration budgets in the report include spending for…
Spot pricesCourtesy of ScotiabankTuesday, March 5, 2013 Precious MetalsPrice…
The following letter was sent to U.S. President Barack Obama by members of congress Mike Coffman, Hank Johnson, Leonard Boswell, Cynthia M. Lummis, Dana Rohrabacher, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Tom Latham, Walter B. Jones, Paul A. Gosar and Donald…
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