Barrick slides on management changes
Barrick Gold (ABX-T, ABX-N) took a mild beating after it named a new chief executive in a move to bolster its share price, leaving some analysts wondering if turbulent waters lie ahead.
Copper
Xstrata copes with civil unrest in Peru
VANCOUVER — As with many developing countries, there is a natural resource duality in Peru that can trigger tension between pro-mining interests and local communities. Switzerland-based mega-miner Xstrata PLC (XTA-L) is stuck in the…
GoldQuest soars 613% on new discovery
GoldQuest Mining (GQC-V) shares have taken flight after the company revealed a monster gold intercept from its 15-hole program at the Las Tres Palmas project in the northest Dominican Republic, around 40 km east-southeast from the border with…
Hana plunges on Ghanzi PEA disappointment
Hana Mining’s (HMG-V) share price dropped 68% after the company released a long-awaited preliminary economoc assessment (PEA) on the Banana zone and zone 5 at its 70%-owned Ghanzi copper-silver project in northeastern Botswana.The news…
Copper Fox adds tonnes to Schaft Creek while waiting for economics
VANCOUVER — Copper Fox Metals’ (CUU-V) 70%-owned Schaft Creek deposit is even bigger now thanks to a resource update, but it will still be months before its known how feasible the project actually is.
Thompson Creek provides the lowdown on Mt. Milligan
VANCOUVER — As the old adage goes, it tends to always be darkest before the dawn, and that seems an apt description for Colorado-based molybdenum (moly) player Thompson Creek Metals (TCM-T, TC-N). The company is bulling through a stage of…
Taca Taca won’t be taken, analysts say
When Lumina Copper (LCC-V) announced in early May that it had increased the size of its Taca Taca copper project in northwestern Argentina, mining analyst Adam Low of Raymond James raised his six- to 12-month target price on the stock by $2.50,…
Crazy Horse moves Taysan ahead with prefeasibility study
Philippines-focused Crazy Horse Resources (CZH-V) has outlined a 15-milliontonne- per-year open-pit copper operation at its Taysan project in a prefeasibility study. The mine plan, like the November scoping study before it, splits the project…
Lifton describes copper as ‘nerves of civilization’
In a keynote address at Byron Capital Markets’ third annual conference on electric metals in Toronto on April 19, Jack Lifton warned that copper shortages should be a far greater concern than electric metals, such as rare earths, graphite…
McEwen comments on uncertainty in Argentina
When mining entrepreneur Rob McEwen put US Gold and Minera Andes together to create McEwen Mining (MUX-T, MUX-N) he was working on the model that you could take one company that had cash flow and another company that had development…
Quaterra completes MacArthur PEA
Quattera Resources (QTA-V) took a step closer this week to near-term production at its MacArthur project, a fully-stripped porphyry copper oxide property in the historic Yerington copper district of Nevada.
Change the only constant for Ivanhoe
VANCOUVER — Change and progress are the name of the game for Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) as the company adjusts to a takeover by Rio Tinto (RIO-N, RIO-L, RIO-A) and approaches first production at its world-class Oyu…