Exploration Snapshot: Four junior explorers with active programs
The past year has seen a resurgence of grassroots mineral exploration worldwide for a wide range of precious, base and industrial metals. Below is a quick look at four juniors…
Volume 103 Number 25 December 11 – 24, 2017
Editorial: Bitcoin starts to eat gold’s lunch
Gold investors, miners and explorers have for the most part spent the last few years scoffing at the global cryptocurrency revolution led by Bitcoin and others, with a certain smug…
TSX Venture logs slight decline, Nov. 27-Dec. 1
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index slipped 0.63% to a 789-point close. Gold touched US$1,300 per oz. before finishing at US$1,279.60 per ounce. LME inventories for copper, zinc and nickel were…
TSX slips, Nov. 27-Dec. 1
Canada’s benchmark index dipped 0.43% to finish at 16,038.97. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index fell 2.32% and 2.23% to 67.08 and 191.31. West Texas…
US markets move higher, Nov. 27 to Dec. 1
The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its largest weekly gain since December 2016, buoyed by optimistic expectations that U.S. lawmakers were making progress on tax-cut legislation. The Dow climbed 2.9%…
Lundin Mining lowers production outlook
VANCOUVER — Lundin Mining (TSX: LUN) pulled together a management conference call after a press release detailing its lower production guidance for the next three years triggered a fall in…
‘We can use the power of machine learning’: PMF roundtable discusses innovation in mining
The mining industry is engaged in a multifaceted debate about innovation, and the potential impacts new technologies and systems can have on operating practices, workforce demographics, social responsibility and sustainability….
Osisko Metals consolidates Bathurst camp
In the last year, newly minted Osisko Metals (TSXV: OM; US-OTC: BWMXF) has picked up over 500 sq. km in New Brunswick’s Bathurst mining camp, the third-largest volcanogenic massive sulphide…
Advantage Lithium shares rise on drilling
Since October, Advantage Lithium’s (TSXV: AAL; US-OTC: AVLIF) stock price has more than doubled after strong drilling results at its 50%-owned Cauchari lithium property in northern Argentina’s Jujuy province. The…
Firesteel to buy, restart Laiva gold mine
Firesteel Resources (TSXV: FTR) intends to purchase and reactivate the past-producing Laiva gold mine located in central Finland, near the Gulf of Bothnia, in early December and begin producing gold…
Novo shares tumble on sampling woes at Purdy’s Reward
VANCOUVER — Novo Resources (TSXV: NVO; US-OTC: NSRPF) is “uncomfortable” with the experimental, bulk-sampling technique it has been using for grade estimation at the company’s Purdy’s Reward paleoplacer joint-venture gold project…
Nexa has ‘global player’ ambitions in zinc
VANCOUVER — Brazil’s Votorantim Metais drew the mining world’s attention in October when it filed an initial public offering (IPO) for Nexa Resources (TSX: NEXA; NYSE: NEXA) on the Toronto and…