Panoro derisks Antilla in Peru
Shares in Panoro Minerals (TSXV: PML) rose 9% after company sketched out the economics of its Antilla project in a preliminary economic assessment (PEA). The Antilla copper-molybdenum porphyry deposit sits…
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Editorial: The curious case of Carmax Mining
Anyone following junior mining in B.C. — and by extension the Mineral Titles Office — may have caught an interesting bit of drama in April courtesy of Carmax Mining and…
TNM Data Miner: Digging into the data on equity financings in Canada
VANCOUVER — Welcome to a new feature at The Northern Miner where we have some fun with raw data sets relating to mining, mineral exploration, and commodity markets. To begin we’ll be…
TSX Venture approaches 52-week high, April 25-29
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index built on its three-month run during trading, as it gained 2.8%, or 18.69 points, en route to a 674.87-point weekly close. Gains were underpinned by improving commodity…
Wall Street declines, April 25–29
U.S. stocks fell as oil and gold prices rose higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index both fell 1.3% to 17,773.64 and 2,065.30. The Nasdaq Composite…
TSX moves higher, April 25-29
After posting a 0.6% gain in January, Canada’s gross domestic product shrank 0.1% in February, but still beat expectations of a 0.2% contraction, according to Bloomberg data. The U.S. Federal…
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 10: Aloha! CIM conference and earnings season
Join us as we bid Lesley a groovy week-long vacation in Hawaii; aloha! Matt digs into a flurry of quarterly earnings reports, including Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) and Barrick Gold…
Avnel sees Kalana as open pit mine
Howard Miller, executive chairman and CEO of Avnel Gold Mining (TSX: AVK), has had his fair share of success over the last 35 years. As a founding director of Nelson Resources, he…
Argonaut boosts San Agustin’s economics
Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR) shares gained 11% after an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the San Agustin gold-silver project in Mexico cut initial cost estimates 36% and improved returns. The…
Sirios rethinks Cheechoo, wins Goldcorp’s interest
VANCOUVER — Explorer Sirios Resources (TSXV: SOI; US-OTC: SIREF) has been toiling away for years in relative obscurity at its flagship Cheechoo gold project, 320 km north of Matagami, Que., but is gaining…
Anglo American sells assets to China Moly for US$1.5B
One of China’s largest molybdenum and tungsten concentrates producers is buying Anglo American’s (US-OTC: AAUKF; LSE: AAL) phosphate and niobium businesses in Brazil for US$1.5 billion in cash. The sale…
Lead and zinc demand set to rise strongly in 2016, says ILZSG
The following is an edited release by the International Lead and Zinc Study Group (ILZSG), which held its spring meetings in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 27. For lead, the ILZSG…