PwC: Miners drive $5B year in Canadian IPOs
The following is an edited summary from PwC about its annual IPO survey. For more information, visit www.pwc.com. The 2017 market for initial public offerings (IPOs) in Canada raced across…
Volume 104 Number 2 January 22 – February 4, 2018
BC, Yukon & NWT Snapshot: 8 juniors on the move
Canada’s westernmost province and two territories have long attracted mineral explorers and developers lured by the region’s rich natural endowment, substantial infrastructure and pro-mining government policies. The following is a…
Editorial: US gov’t slaps sanctions on Israeli mogul Dan Gertler
On Dec. 20, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order under the year-old Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and related acts to block the property of 13 “malign…
TSX Venture Exchange inches lower, Jan. 8-12
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 1.96% to finish the Jan. 8-12 trading week at 878.20. Shares of Standard Lithium jumped 30¢ to $2.55 on news that the company signed…
TSX slips, Jan. 8-12
The S&P/TSX Composite Index fell 0.25% to finish at 16,308.18. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index gained 4.19% to 76.85 and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index rose 2.03% to 200.62, with…
US markets rise slightly, Jan. 8-12
Gold closed Friday at US$1,337.40 per oz., up US$18.60 per ounce. The Philadelphia Gold & Silver Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both rose 2% to 89.11 and 25,803.19….
First Majestic bids for Primero in friendly deal
First Majestic Silver’s (TSX: FR; NYSE: AG) proposed acquisition of Primero Mining (TSX: P) and its San Dimas silver-gold mine would bring the number of its operating silver mines in…
Barkerville on track for 2018 resource estimate
With 10 rigs active for most of last year and 157,000 metres of drilling, Barkerville Gold Mines (TSXV: BGM) says the program last year at its gold project in British…
New Nadina shares stumble into the new year
New Nadina Explorations (TSXV: NNA; US-OTC: NNADF) shares plummeted 86% to 48¢ in the new year after the company released drill results from its Silver Queen polymetallic project, 43 km…
Atac hunts for more Carlin-style gold at Rackla
VANCOUVER — Geologists quickly learn not to lick the rocks when visiting Atac Resources’ (TSXV: ATC; US-OTC: ATADF) Rackla gold property, 100 km northeast of Keno City in eastern Yukon….
Osisko Metals to acquire Pine Point zinc mine in NWT
Osisko Metals (TSXV: OM) is expanding its zinc footprint to northern Canada in a $35-million deal to acquire Pine Point Mining (TSXV: ZINC) and its Pine Point project near Hay…
Aurania sees shares jump, identifies target in Ecuador
Shares of Aurania Resources (TSXV: ARU) skyrocketed in the first week of January after a senior analyst at The Casey Report recommended to his subscribers that they buy the junior…