Volume 99 Number 43 Dec 9 - 15, 2013

A dump truck at Augusta Resource's Rosemont copper-molybdenum project in Arizona. Credit: Augusta Resource

Augusta shares whipsawed on EPA commentary

Shareholders of junior outfit Augusta Resource (TSX: AZC; NYSE-MKT) got a little skittish after the release of a letter from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by non-government organization Save the Scenic Santa Ritas (SSSR), a…


Geologists inspecting core at Castle Mountain Mining's namesake gold project in San Bernardino County, California. Credit: Castle Mountain Mining

Castle Mountain completes maiden resource

Research analysts Joe Mazumdar and Scott McLean of Canaccord Genuity in Vancouver have raised their target price on Castle Mountain Mining (TSXV: CMM) to $1 per share and added the company to the Canaccord Genuity Focus List, after the…


Men walk into an  adit at the Wellgreen PGM-nickel-copper project in the Yukon. Credit: Prophecy Platinum

Prophecy Platinum reports a half-mile of mineralization

Picture seven football fields in a row of continuous mineralization, and that’s the width of platinum group metal (PGM) mineralization intercepted in a single drill hole at Prophecy Platinum’s (TSXV: NKL; US-OTC: PNIKF) Wellgreen…



The Samaniego pit at McEwen Mining's El Gallo silver-mining complex in Sinaloa, Mexico. Credit: McEwen Mining

Searching for a silver lining

Thomson Reuters GFMS presented their Interim Silver Market Review at the Annual Silver Industry Dinner, in New York on November 12, and while the report points to some distinct advantages that the metal has when compared to the other hard-luck…




The first gold pour at Goldcorp's  Penasquito mine in Mexico. Credit: Goldcorp

Gold slide to continue in 2014?

VANCOUVER — Barring some kind of global economic disaster this month, 2013 will end with the gold price down markedly. It will be the first year-over-year decline for the yellow metal since 1997 — and many expect the trend to…


Toronto Stock Exchange, Nov. 25-29

The S&P/TSX Composite Index took some time to catch its breath, as the index ended its strong run and fell 84 points to 13,395.40 points for the period. The loss of momentum came after data south of the border showed weaker-than-expected…


PotashCorp cuts workforce by 18%

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (TSX: POT; NYSE: POT) is reducing its workforce by 18% amid soft crop-nutrient demand from developing markets.



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