In 1911 the first bar of gold in Ontario’s Kirkland Lake gold camp was poured at the Tough-Oakes mine. One century and 42.5 million oz. gold later, a group of friends met for coffee and decided to make a bronze plaque to commemorate the…
Gold bugs have been taking a beating of late, and it just seems to be going from bad to worse. The gold price entered official bear territory to close out the trading week, and then began the week by falling even further on panic selling.
As many in the mining sector are well aware, junior mining companies are having a harder time accessing capital markets for financing. Even when they are able to get their hands on some money, the financing comes with more onerous terms than…
In a new report on junior precious metal explorers that looks at which companies will have the cash to survive the current market and the decline in the gold price, analysts at Macquarie Equities Research predict that exploration programs will…
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Gold is a wonderful symbol of indestructible beauty, but all kinds of gold investment strategies have been going down in flames this year.
In January, Islamic terrorists stormed a natural gas plant staffed by hundreds of Algerian workers and a number of foreign workers. The Algerian military intervened, bringing an end to the crisis, but in its aftermath workers from the U.S.,…
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While there may be a glut of copper coming out of the world’s mines over the next four years, it won’t be too long before a supply gap opens up and then starts to widen.
The shift from “quantity to returns” has led to numerous headaches for miners, causing project delays, hefty writedowns and CEO departures, while companies tackle escalating costs that have caught up with the rising commodity…
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Late March saw the Canadian government table its budget, the theme of which proved to be “steady as she goes” — both in the broad sense, and for the mining industry specifically.
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