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Processing facilities at Lundin Mining's   Eagle copper-nickel mine in Michigan. Credit:  Lundin Mining

Lundin produces concentrate at Eagle

With the start of concentrate production and the completion of mill commissioning ahead of schedule and under budget at Lundin Mining’s (TSX: LUN) high-grade Eagle mine in Michigan, the company is poised to start shipments of the first…


Precipitate Gold vice-president of exploration Michael Moore (facing camera) analyzes core from discovery hole 5 at the Ginger Ridge zone, part of the Juan de Herrera gold project in the Dominican Republic. Credit: Precipitate Gold

Precipitate Gold team talks discovery at Ginger Ridge

VANCOUVER — It took junior Precipitate Gold (TSXV: PRG; US-OTC: PREIF) two years of socio-political wrangling to get its drills turning, but only a fraction of that time to make a discovery at its 125 sq. km Juan de Herrera…


Monarques Resources' past-producing Croinor gold project, 70 km east of Val-d'Or, Quebec. Credit: Monarques Resources

Monarques builds critical mass

Over the last 18 months, Monarques Resources (TSXV: MQR; US-OTC: MRQRF) has taken advantage of the depressed capital markets to accumulate 13 gold properties on the cheap in Val-d’Or, Que. 




Rising GDP drives consumer gold demand

The following is an edited summary from the U.K.-based World Gold Council about its report entitled: The growth dividend: How rising GDP lifts gold consumer demand. The full report can be found at www.gold.org.



Core racks at Falco Resources' historic gold property in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec.

Sean Roosen brings golden touch to Falco

The co-founder of Osisko Mining — who brought the $1-billion Canadian Malartic mine into production, and oversaw the sale of the company earlier this year to Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) and Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY)…


A bucket-wheel excavator at BHP Billiton's Klipspruit thermal coal mine in South Africa. Credit: BHP Billiton

China moves to restrict imports of low-quality coal

A week before the United Nations Climate Summit kicked off in New York, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) released a directive on coal stating that the country would restrict imports of low-quality coal in certain…



Agnico Eagle's Lapa project in Quebec. Credit: Agnico Eagle Mines

Agnico has room to grow in Quebec

Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) has grown over the past two decades from a single asset producer to a mid-tier gold miner, with mines spread across Quebec, Nunavut, Finland and Mexico. But its four gold mines strung out along a 50 km…



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