Barrick maintains guidance despite Q1 drop
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD), the world’s second-largest producer of the precious metal, expects first-quarter gold output to fall by 8.5%, as it has had to scale down operations…
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Barrick inks option deals with Precipitate Gold and Golden Minerals
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) has inked two earn-in agreements in as many days on projects in the Dominican Republic and Argentina. The gold major is earning a 70%…
COVID-19 cuts US$280B swathe through top 50 mining companies
MINING.COM’s ranking of the world’s 50 largest mining companies based on market value shows a beleaguered industry at the end of the first quarter 2020, despite a resurgent gold price…
Raymond James lowers metals forecasts for 2020
Raymond James has updated its metal price forecasts for the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Its new full-year forecast for gold in 2020 is US$1,594 per oz., down from…
Barrick updates 10-year plan
Barrick Gold (TSE: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) has unveiled a 10-year gold production plan in which it aims to maintain production levels of approximately 5 million oz. gold per year between…
Tanzanian Gold doubles resource for Buckreef project
Tanzanian Gold (TSX: TNX; NYSE:TRX) has updated the resource estimate for its Buckreef gold project, about 110 km southwest of the city of Mwanza in north-central Tanzania. The Buckreef shear…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 177: Gold ‘teetering on the brink of a production decline’, ft. Mark Bristow at PDAC
This episode features a keynote speech by Barrick Gold CEO Mark Bristow at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference in Toronto. Bristow discusses how gold production is…
PDAC: Mark Bristow hammers home organic growth message
Mark Bristow used his keynote address at the 2020 PDAC conference to stress the importance of exploration for miners. “It’s geologists and exploration that drive value creation and delivery in…
PDAC: ‘M&A is back,’ says Barrick’s Catherine Raw
Last year was the busiest year for mergers and acquisitions in the precious metals sector since 2010, Catherine Raw, the executive responsible for Barrick Gold‘s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) North…
US markets fall, Feb. 17-21: Agnico, AngloGold Ashanti, Barrick, Coeur Mining
With the coronavirus epidemic and trade tensions clouding the economic outlook, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.38% to 28,992.41 and the S&P 500 dropped 1.26% to 3,337.75. Safe haven…
Will Canadian miners rise again?
The flurry of M&A transactions last year brought a much-awaited consolidation of the global gold sector. It also brought significant changes to the Canadian mining landscape: Newmont’s (NYSE: NEM) takeover…
Barrick beats forecasts, hikes dividend
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit and rewarded investors with a 40% dividend increase, thanks to strong gold prices. The world’s second-largest gold producer reported…