Gold

The processing plant at Imperial Metals' Red Chris copper-gold mine in northwestern British Columbia, 80 km south of Dease Lake. Credit: Imperial Metals.

Red Chris delay sends Imperial back to the market

In danger of breaking a loan covenant because of a slow ramp-up at its Red Chris copper-gold mine in northwestern B.C., Imperial Metals (TSX: III; US-OTC: IPMLF) is turning once again to its largest shareholders for financial help.


Midway Gold's Pan gold mine in White Pine County, 29 km southeast of Eureka, Nevada.  Credit: Midway Gold

Midway runs into trouble at Pan mine

Midway Gold (TSX: MDW; NYSE-MKT: MDW) has hit a rough patch, less than two months after it initiated production at its Pan gold heap-leach mine in Nevada.


Sabina Gold & Silver's Back River gold project is near Bathurst Inlet in Nunavut. Credit: Sabina Gold & Silver

Sabina focuses on optionality at Back River

A feasibility study for Sabina Gold & Silver’s (TSX: SBB; US-OTC: SGSVF) Back River gold project in Nunavut shows the project could be a large, low-cost producer that could be scaled down in order to lower capital requirements.


A box cut under construction for the first access declines to the planned underground copper mine at Kamoa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ivanhoe Mines has sold almost half its stake in the project to Zijin Mining Group. Credit: Ivanhoe Mines

China’s Zijin Mining buys into Barrick, Ivanhoe assets

Just a week after Vale (NYSE: VALE) unveiled a memorandum of understanding with one of China’s largest commercial banks for financing arrangements worth up to US$4 billion, Zijin Mining Group of southern Fujian province has agreed to…




Atico Mining's El Roble copper-gold mine in Colombia, 145 km east of Medellin. Credit: Atico Mining

Atico Mining’s confidence in El Roble grows

Atico Mining’s (TSXV: ATY; US-OTC: ATCMF) El Roble underground mine is the only copper-gold volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit in production today in Colombia and the Vancouver-based junior producer is becoming more confident by…


A worker watches the first load of concentrate from Hudbay Minerals' Constancia copper-moly-gold-silver mine leave for China from Peru. Credit: Hudbay Minerals

Hudbay hits commercial production at Constancia

Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) has stayed on course with its ambitious growth plans over the last five years, bringing online three new mines, with the latest being the large Constancia copper-molybdenum-gold-silver mine in Peru.


Cordoba Minerals' San Matias project   in northern Colombia. Credit: Cordoba Minerals

Cordoba entices Friedland’s HPX to explore Colombia

VANCOUVER — It’s been over a year since Mario Stifano, president and CEO of Cordoba Minerals (TSXV: CDB; US-OTC: CDBMF) shared an elevator with international financer Robert Friedland and sparked the billionaire’s interest in…


Roy Sebag, BitGold cofounder and team leader.

BitGold surges on TSXV debut

If you believe, as Roy Sebag and Josh Crumb do, that the real value in gold is not holding it as an investment but using it as money, then you should check out BitGold (TSXV: XAU), the company they founded that uses an Internet-based technology…



TSX ends in the red, May 11-15

Canada’s main stock index retreated during the trading week. The S&P/TSX Composite Index fell 0.4% to 15,108.12. The S&P/TSX Capped Diversified Metals & Mining Index dropped 1.4% to 794.05, and the S&P/TSX Global Gold…


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