Endeavour gets El Cubo back on track
Endeavour Silver (EDR-T, EXK-N) is continuing its mission of Mexican rejuvenation.
Volume 99 Number 20 Jul 1 - 7, 2013
Corvus bumps up economics at North Bullfrog
An optimized preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for Corvus Gold’s (KOR-T) North Bullfrog open-pit gold-silver project in southern Nevada has outlined a slightly larger project with substantially better returns.
PMI Gold finds new prospect at Obotan
PMI Gold’s (PMV-T, PVM-A) flagship Obotan gold project — which already includes four known deposits in Ghana’s Asankrangwan gold belt (Nkran, Adubiaso, Abore and Asudai) and could produce gold as early as the second half of…
Ned Goodman’s rebellion won’t take Formation
VANCOUVER — Shareholders and a Supreme Court judge stymied an attempt by 17% shareholder Dundee (DC-T) to install new management and block an asset sale at Formation Metals (FCO-T), after a disagreement over how the cobalt-focused company…
U.S. markets, June 17-21
U.S. equities were hammered following comments mid-week from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke that the central bank would scale back its quantitative easing program later this year. At a press conference Bernanke said he expects asset…
Toronto Stock Exchange, June 17-21
The strong run that equity markets had been enjoying for much of the year came to an end during the period, and the S&P/TSX Composite Index did not escape the global market trend. The index was off 255 points to 11,955.66 points for the…
TSX Venture Exchange, June 17-21
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index continued a three-week slide, dropping 4%, or 37.78 points, before closing out the week at 895.79.
Lucara’s Karowe diamond mine keeps giving
Lucara Diamond (LUC-T) is one of the few junior diamond producers excelling in the turbulent markets, as it discovers more large stones at its 100%-owned Karowe diamond mine in Botswana, including a 239-carat stone, which recently sold for…
More to gold price than meets the eye
Explanations for the most recent drop in gold prices generally begin and end with Ben Bernanke’s recent comments regarding the possible end to quantitative easing.
Metals, mining and money markets
Spot pricesCourtesy of ScotiabankTuesday, June 25, 2013 Precious MetalsPrice…
Commentary: How to survive the mining crisis
This has been a difficult year for many mining companies. Softening commodity prices, falling share prices and significantly reduced financing opportunities have combined to create a crisis where survival is the key goal for many in the…
NAP raises funds for Lac des Iles
North American Palladium (PDL-T, PAL-N), or NAP, secured some much-needed cash to keep expanding its Lac des Iles (LDI) primary palladium mine near Thunder Bay, Ont.