VANCOUVER — It can be tough for junior companies to get market traction these days, but one angle that can still make shares pop is the age-old option agreement with a large-cap producer. And that’s the story for Columbus Gold…
Positive economic data out of China firmed up commodity prices and took the resource-heavy S&P/TSX Composite Index higher. The Index was up 33 points for the period, finishing at 12,844 points.
VANCOUVER – Two revamped option agreements have enabled Ascot Resources (TSXV: AOT) to go from being a cash-strapped company unable to explore of its projects to a well-funded junior with three drills pulling promising intercepts from its…
Outside the tech industry, there aren’t too many sectors of the economy where you can find 31-year-old presidents of major companies, and certainly not in the field of mining, where the demographics in management are often skewed in the…
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s surprise announcement to maintain its stimulus program helped lift Toronto markets during the trading week.
A proposed 7.5% mining tax on companies in Mexico and as much as 8% on those extracting precious metals is creating uncertainty in the industry about investing in a country that until now has been thought of as one of the world’s most…
The major U.S. indexes rose for the third week in a row — lifted by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s surprise decision on Sept. 18 to delay tapering its massive stimulus program. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 0.50% to…
When the Nevada office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management raised its annual mining claim fees last year by 700%, from US$140 per claim to US$1,120 — at a time capital markets were even more challenging for miners — juniors like…
EMED Mining (TSX: EMD; LSE: EMED), which has been working for several years to satisfy the requirements of the Spanish government so that it can revive the past-producing Rio Tinto copper mine in Andalucia, says it expects to receive all…
Mid-September has been a busy time for the gold market.
Ned Goodman, president and CEO of Dundee Corp., spoke about the perils of quantitative easing at the Toronto Resource Investment Conference on Sept. 12. He made the following remarks, as recorded by The Northern Miner, with part one having…
Despite a valiant attempt to raise capital, Donner Metals (TSXV: DON; US-OTC: DONFF) defaulted on a payment owed to Glencore Xstrata (LSE: GLEN) and as a result handed over its 35% interest in the Bracemac-McLeod mine…
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