2015


TSX retreats, April 27-May 1

Mediocre earnings and data showing a stagnant gross domestic product sent the S&P/TSX Composite Index down 0.5% to 15,339.77. Mining indexes, however, were in positive territory, with the S&P/TSX Capped Diversified Metals & Mining…


Elders, warriors and escorts representing the Tahltan Nation occupy a drill site in September 2013 at Fortune Minerals' Arctos coal project in northwest British Columbia. Photo by Tamo Campos.

Editorial: BC gov’t solves Arctos conundrum

One of the more contentious showdowns in B.C. in recent years between a First Nation and a mine developer has been neatly diffused by the B.C. government, which has swept in with $18.3 million to buy Fortune Minerals’ Arctos high-quality…


Drill rigs probing Agnico Eagle Mines's Amaruq gold property in western Nunavut, 50 km northwest of its Meadowbank gold mine.

Agnico grows Amaruq discovery under Whale Lake

Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) is off to a strong start in this year’s exploration program at its promising Amaruq gold discovery, located 50 km northwest of its Meadowbank gold mine in western Nunavut, 300 km west of Hudson Bay.


U.S. stocks drop, April 27-May 1

U.S. equities fell  after being tripped up by  soft economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 56.08 points to 18,024.06, and the S&P 500 Index slipped 9.4 points to 2,108.29. The Nasdaq retreated 86.69 points to…


Nordgold CEO Nikolai Zelenski (left) and Columbus Gold CEO Robert Giustra at a drill site at the Paul Isnard gold project in French Guiana. Credit: Columbus Gold

Columbus Gold to launch $20M program

Over the next year, Columbus Gold (TSXV: CGT; US-OTC: CBGDF), a small junior with a market cap of just $64 million, will oversee $20 million invested in exploration and development at its two gold projects, Paul Isnard in French Guiana and…


A field worker stands by the outcropping Shumagin vein at Redstar Gold's Unga gold project in Alaska. Credit: Redstar Gold

Redstar Gold drills the Aleutian Islands

If you ask Redstar Gold (TSXV: RGC; US-OTC: RGCTF) for comparables to the mineralization at its Unga gold project in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, the management team will tell you that it is similar to the high-grade, low-sulphidation…







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