Business is a fun game to play for Bruce Walter
Roots in The Salvation Army run four generations deep for mining entrepreneur and dealmaker Bruce Walter, the chairman of Toronto-based WW Mines.
Gold
Central Iron Ore seeks more gold in Western Australia
Central Iron Ore’s (CIO-V) primary focus may be the magnetite and direct shipping ore it believes exists on its 652 sq. km of tenements in the Yilgarn iron ore province of Western Australia, but the junior is also busy exploring for gold and…
Rumours about Oyu Tolgoi rattle Ivanhoe
Dale Choi, an analyst at Frontier Securities in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, is recommending to clients that they buy long-term call options on Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) due to the “panic” surrounding rumours of possible revisions to the Oyu…
A Mutiny at Gullewa
The Gullewa project in Western Australia has attracted interest of late for its high-grade gold, silver and copper mineralization and for the wheeling and dealing being done around it.
Vista Gold ups Mt. Todd resource to 8.6M oz.
Vista Gold (VGZ-T, VGZ-X) is moving to bring its Mt. Todd gold project in Australia’s Northern Territories to feasibility and permitting.
Mandalay looks for discounted opportunities
The strategy at gold and antimony producer Mandalay Resources (MND-T) is to find assets that can generate enough cash to grow themselves, as well as fund the next acquisition. So far, that strategy appears to be working at the junior’s mine in…
Northgate’s Australian mines lag
Analysts remain mixed over AuRico Gold’s (AUQ-N) $1.46-billion, all-share takeover bid for gold miner Northgate Minerals (NGX-T, NXG-X), with some believing the 60% price AuRico agreed to pay is too rich for Northgate and its prized…
Nunavut gold find pleases Prosperity investors
Prosperity Goldfields (PPG-V) has drilled 158 metres of 1.7 grams gold per tonne at its main Kiyuk gold project in southern Nunavut, including a higher-grade section of 31 metres grading 4.9 grams gold. The results are from the company’s…
Maya Gold & Silver turns to Morocco’s silver and gold riches
Maya Gold & Silver (MYA-V) has its eyes on another past-producing precious-metal mine in Morocco – this time, the Zgounder silver mine in central Morocco’s Anti-Atlas mountains.
Sabina finding deeper mineralization at Goose claims
Vancouver – Sabina Gold & Silver (SBB-T) continues to churn out drill results as it works towards resource updates and a scoping study for its Back River project in Nunavut.
Precious Metals Summit re-cap part II: Gabriel gathers mommentum
The trials and tribulations of Gabriel Resources (GBU-T) and its Rosia Montana project have been well documented over the years. Indeed tapping the incredible mineral wealth of the project has been a cumbersome process for the company as NGO’s…
Highlights from Precious Metals Summit, Part I
Over the next to days The Northern Miner will look back at some of the stand-out presentations from the Precious Metals Summit, which took place in Vail, Colorado in mid-September. Today’s segment will look at presentations made by the chief…