Allied Nevada clears out worrisome covenants
Allied Nevada Gold (TSX: ANV; NYSE-MKT: ANV) has gained some wriggle room as it pushes into the new year with a lofty plan to expand its flagship Hycroft mine in Nevada.
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Macquarie reviews 2013 metal prices
Analysts at Macquarie Commodities Research in London and Beijing have totted-up the final numbers for 2013 and conclude in a research note published Jan. 2 that of all the precious and base metals, palladium posted the largest year-on-year…
Banro pours first gold at Namoya
Despite delays and two separate downward revisions to its gold production target at Namoya this year, Banro Corp. (TSX: BAA; NYSE: BAA) managed to pour the first gold at its newest mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Dec. 30.
Eike Batista’s boom and bust
VANCOUVER — How do you turn US$35 billion into less than US$400 million in 18 months?
Commentary: Rob McEwen on the outlook for 2014
Rob McEwen, chairman and chief owner of McEwen Mining, shared his thoughts with The Northern Miner about the outlook for the mining industry in 2014. McEwen Mining’s principal assets consist of the San Jose mine in Santa Cruz, Argentina…
Marlin Gold and GoGold Resources covet Santa Gertrudis
The Santa Gertrudis gold project — 180 km north of Hermosillo, in Mexico’s Sonora state — was discovered by Phelps Dodge in 1986 and advanced to open-pit, heap-leach production in 1991.
Interview: Fission’s Ross McElroy on the PLS uranium discovery
Last week, we awarded our “Mining Persons of the Year” for 2013 to Fission Uranium (TSXV-FCU) president and COO Ross McElroy and chairman and CEO Dev Randhawa. This week we interview McElroy, and next week, Randhawa, on their careers, Fission…
Argonaut Gold wraps up Magino study
Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR; US-OTC: ARNGF) has completed a prefeasibility study (PFS) based on 40% of a 2013 resource estimate for its Magino property, 40 km northeast of Wawa, Ont. The PFS excludes underground and surface drilling data prior to…
Toronto Stock Exchange, Dec. 16-20
The S&P/TSX Composite Index jumped 273.90 points, or 2%, to 13,399.60 during the trading week after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it would trim its monthly bond-buying program by US$10 billion to US$75 billion, starting in January….
Besra pushes to production in Malaysia
VANCOUVER — Besra Gold (TSX: BEZ) is laying the groundwork for its third gold mine with a feasibility study for a first stage of development at its Bau project in East Malaysia.
Will private equity save the mining sector?
With the mining sector in its third year of a painful downturn, a collective realization is setting in that business as usual isn’t going to cut it anymore.
Editorial: Silvercorp’s short-seller headache
The murky and often frivolous world of financial blogs showed its serious side in mid-December.