Gold


Roxgold cuts high grades at Bagassi South target

VANCOUVER — Roxgold (TSXV: ROG; US-OTC: ROGFF) is cutting strong gold grades at its wholly owned Yaramoko gold project, 200 km southwest from Burkina Faso’s capital city of Ouagadougou. The Vancouver-based explorer is set to release…


Eldorado's Kisladag gold mine in western Turkey (2012). Source: Eldorado Gold

Eldorado hits the brakes on expansion, shares rises 23%

VANCOUVER — Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO; US-OTC: ELDXF) has joined a growing list of miners opting to cut back on exploration and development expenditures in the face of struggling commodities markets. The company announced on…


Fortune closes in on final permits at NICO

VANCOUVER — It has been a promising six months for Fortune Minerals (TSX: FT; US-OTC: FTMDF) and its advanced-stage NICO gold-cobalt-bismuth project, 160 km northwest of Yellowknife, N.W.T. The London, Ont.-based company began the year…


The view from a hill looking towards True Gold Mining's Goulagou II deposit at the Karma gold project in Burkina Faso. True Gold Mining

Equity-royalty deal lands True Gold a cool $23.5M

VANCOUVER — Money may be tight right now, but True Gold Mining (TSXV: TGM) is demonstrating that there is funding available for companies with advanced projects that are willing to be a bit creative.


Sabina keeps finding high-grade gold at Back River

Sabina Gold & Silver (TSX: SBB) is pulling strong grades from its Back River gold-silver project in Nunavut. The latest results come from the Umwelt and Llama deposits, two of the project’s four main deposits.


In Williams Lake, B.C., on July 22, 2013, anti-mine protestors march to the opening of the federal review public hearing for Taseko MInes' proposed New Prosperity copper-gold mine. Photo By Gwen Preston.

Editorial: Prosperity’s temerity

I visited Taseko Mines’ Gibraltar mine north of Williams Lake, B.C., in 2008. The company bought the shuttered operation in 1998 and restarted it in 2004. Four expansions later, Gibraltar now employs 700 people, churns out 90 million lb….


A drill rig at Banks Island Gold's Yellow Giant gold project in British Columbia's northwest coast. Source: Banks Island Gold

Banks Island set to mine gold in BC

VANCOUVER — Drilling at Banks Island Gold’s (TSXV: BOZ) Yellow Giant high-grade gold project in coastal B.C. is hitting gold along strike and beneath known mineralization, creating potential for a larger resource just as the company…


Geologists survey the Escanelosa Zone of the Las Tres Palmas project in the Dominican Republic (2012). Source: Goldquest Mining

Long gold hits for GoldQuest in DR

VANCOUVER — Every batch of drill results from the Romero gold discovery at GoldQuest Mining’s (TSXV: GQC) Las Tres Palmas project in the Dominican Republic adds to a growing list of impressive intercepts. The latest batch was no…


U.S. markets, July 8-12

U.S. stocks closed the trading week in the green, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average adding 2.2%, or 328.46 points, to 15,464.30. The S&P 500 Index rose nearly 3%, or 48.3 points, to 1,680.19, and the Philadelphia Gold & Silver Index…




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