Canada’s benchmark index exited the trading week in positive territory, helped by higher gold prices and mining stocks. The S&P/TSX Composite Index jumped 144.40 points to 14,753.65. It ended 2014 up 7.4% for the year, slightly below…
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Given the unchanged prospects at Barrick Gold’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) suspended Pascua-Lama gold-silver project in Chile and Argentina, Silver Wheaton (TSX: SLW; NYSE: SLW) has again amended its silver-stream agreement on the asset.
Further sharp declines in oil prices to start 2015 are signalling that oil prices will be a major theme this year for miners.
It was another lacklustre year for gold and gold equities, with the spot price for gold dipping below 2013’s close and down 14% from the high reached in March 2014, to exit the year at US$1,182.90 per oz. Despite that dim backdrop, more…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index climbed 1.4% and 0.9%, but the major indexes edged lower in the last trading week of the year, falling 1.2% and 1.5% in the following trading session. The Dow finished the week at…
VANCOUVER — It’s a new year and a new direction for junior Revelo Resources (TSXV: RVL). After a merger in late 2014 the newly minted company is aiming to leverage its exploration experience and expansive property portfolio in…
The latest energy-market numbers from the Chinese government show an acceleration of a remarkable phenomenon that emerged from 2012 to 2014. The bottom line today is that the traditional nexus between real gross domestic product (GDP) growth,…
Eco Oro Minerals (TSX: EOM) has seen its shares climb in recent weeks, spurred by the Colombian government better defining the boundaries of an environmentally sensitive paramo ecosystem that is near the company’s Angostura…
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index kicked off the new year in the green during the trading period, gaining 4.8%, or 32.5 points, en route to a 706.82-point weekly close.
In what will be its fifth acquisition since February 2012, conventional uranium producer Energy Fuels (TSX: EFR; NYSE-MKT: UUUU) hopes to pick up in-situ recovery (ISR) uranium producer Uranerz Energy (TSX: URZ; NYSE-MKT: URZ) in a friendly…
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