Montreal-based G Mining Ventures (TSX: GMIN; US-OTC: GMINF) is expanding its South American holdings by taking over Reunion Gold’s (TSXV: RGD; US-OTC: RGDFF) Oko West gold project in Guyana in…
Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) is acquiring Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR) and its past-troubled Magino mine in northern Ontario in an all-share deal valued at US$325 million to become Canada’s third-largest…
Ottawa has to pressure pension funds to invest billions in Canadian mining, a radical change from their almost non-existent stakes, if the industry is ever going to produce enough metals…
Panama legislators approved a bill on Thursday that blocks all future mining concessions including exploration, extraction and transportation of minerals as well as contract renewals in the Central American country. The…
Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR) has achieved commercial production at its Magino mine in northern Ontario after construction costs almost doubled to nearly $1 billion and led to the ouster of…
The discrepancy between mining company valuations and commodity prices is at its worst levels in decades, the Precious Metals Summit in Colorado heard this week. “This is probably the worst…
Trading at a 50% drop year-to-date at 15¢ per share, Red Pine Exploration (TSXV: RPX; US-OTC: RDEXF) has sold a 1.5% net smelter return (NSR) royalty on its advanced gold…
What’s happening in Mexico? Corporate mining project investments soared this year in the world’s largest silver producer even as the government targeted companies in a tough new law a year…
Over the shortened Aug. 8-11 trading week, the S&P/TSX Composite Index gained 171.53 or 0.8% to 20,407.57. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index lost 1.02 points or 0.94% to 107.27, and…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 564.63 points or 1.7% to 34,509.03 and the S&P 500 gained 95.9 points or 2.17% over the week to 4,505.42. The week’s top value…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 692.9 points or 2% to 34,407.6 and the S&P 500 gained 121.6 points or 2.8% to 4,450.4 during the June 26-30 trading week. Franco-Nevada…
Gold royalty and streaming company Franco-Nevada (TSX: FNV; NYSE: FNV) is buying an additional 1.5% net smelter returns royalty (NSR) on Marathon Gold‘s (TSX: MOZ) Valentine project for US$45 million ($60 …