Coeur Mining (TSX: CDM; NYSE: CDE) is steadily turning the corporate ship back towards profitability. The largest U.S.-based primary silver producer has spent nearly three years in transition — navigating choppy metal prices and financial…
A 24% year-on-year drop in the average annual silver price in 2013 to US$23.79 per oz. and an average price for the precious metal of US$19.71 per oz. in the third quarter of this year continues to put pressure on silver producers.
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite took another tumble during the trading period, as it lost 6.31%, or 55.69 points, en route 827.13-point weekly close. Markets were impacted by falling energy futures after a dim outlook on oil demand growth…
VANCOUVER — According to president Robin Goad, Fortune Minerals’ (TSX: FT; US-OTC: FTMDF) acquisition of the fully permitted Revenue silver-gold-lead-zinc mine in southwestern Colorado is poised to take the company…
VANCOUVER — It’s not a market where producers discuss exploration-stage plays often, but Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) can’t contain its excitement over the Amaruq gold prospect, 50 km northwest of its Meadowbank…
“Productivity is the prime imperative for the mining industry of the decade or decades to come,” Ross Middleton, a partner with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), told attendees at Mining Magazine’s “Optimizing Mine…
Balmoral Resources (TSX: BAR; US-OTC: BALMF) has more than doubled the strike length and depth of the high-grade Horizon 3 zone at its Grasset nickel-copper-platinum group metals (PGM) project in Quebec. Grasset is about 200 km north of…
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite continued an eight-week free fall during the trading sessions, as it dropped 4%, or 36.60 points, en route to an 882.82-point close. Over the past two months the Venture has lost 14%, or 141.17 points. North…
Last week we highlighted the shocking collapse in iron-ore prices in September, with spot prices down more than 40% for the year, and trading below US$80 per tonne in China — the world’s largest importer — and gave a heads-up…
In a symbolic gesture the Innu First Nations of Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam and Matimekush-Lac John returned two iron-ore boulders to Iron Ore Co. of Canada’s (IOC) head office in Montreal. IOC is majority-owned by Rio Tinto. The boulders were…
The following is an edited excerpt from the World Steel Association’s (worldsteel) “Short-range outlook for 2014 and 2015.” It forecasts that global apparent steel use will increase by 2% to 1,562 million tonnes in 2014 after…
The Colombia-based Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) has given refiner Metalor its ‘Fairmined Refiner’ designation, making the firm the first London Bullion Market Association (LBMA)-approved refiner to hold that status.
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