Hochschild Mining withdraws dividend
Hochschild Mining (LSE: HOC) has become the third major mining company to suspend its dividend due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Peru-focused gold mining company’s announcement follows Glencore’s (LSE: GLEN)…
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Fiore grows resource, completes study at Gold Rock
Fiore Gold (TSXV: F; US-OTC: FIOGF) has completed a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Gold Rock project in Nevada and provided an updated mineral resource estimate and a base…
O3 Mining expands zones at East Cadillac
O3 Mining (TSXV: OIII) has released drill results from four zones at its East Cadillac property, 40 km east of Val d’Or, Quebec. The drilling targeted new areas of mineralization…
BofA forecasts 4.7M tonne aluminium surplus
Bank of America Securities estimates global demand for aluminium will fall by 7.2% year-on-year in 2020 while supply will likely increase by 2%. Prices for the metal already have plunged…
Gold climbs to highest level since 2012
The gold price rallied again on Thursday, as investors sought a store of value after the Fed said it was pumping an additional US$2.3 trillion in the US economy to…
Gold ETFs hit record high in Q1
Global gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) had US$23 billion, or 298 tonnes, of net inflows, in the first quarter of 2020 – the highest quarterly amount ever and the largest tonnage…
Rio Tinto maintains dividend, discloses taxes
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) Chairman Simon Thompson told shareholders the company will proceed with a dividend payment announced in February of $2.31 per share, or $3.7 billion, and…
Marathon Gold releases prefeasibility study on Valentine
Marathon Gold (TSX: MOZ) has released the results of a prefeasibility study on its Valentine gold project in Newfoundland, which envisions a 12-year open pit mine, producing an average of…
SolGold’s Ecuador copper project grows
SolGold’s (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG) Cascabel copper-gold asset in Ecuador received a boost on Tuesday after a long-awaited third resource update for Alpala, the project’s main deposit, showed larger than…
Executive chairman John Thornton sells 50% of his shares in Barrick
John Thornton, Barrick Gold’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) executive chairman, has sold half his stake in the company “due to personal portfolio considerations.” Thornton sold 2.63 million shares following the…
Rockcliff boosts resource for Rail deposit in Manitoba
Rockcliff Metals (CSE: RCLF) has released an updated resource for its wholly owned Rail deposit in central Manitoba, doubling both the total resource tonnes and contained copper-equivalent metal at the…
Luminex grows Condor with new Camp resource
Luminex Resources (TSXV: LR) has unveiled a maiden resource for its Camp deposit, part of its Condor project in southeastern Ecuador, of 11.9 million inferred tonnes grading 2.95 grams gold…