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Toronto Stock Exchange, Aug. 6-9
The holiday-shortened trading period wasn’t a typical one for the S&P/TSX Composite Index. While often the index will trend in line with the resource sector that makes up a large part of it, for this period the two moved in opposite…
Alamos to buy Orsa for $3.5M
Cash-rich Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) has added Orsa Ventures (TSXV: ORN) to its shopping list.
African Barrick hit with US$543M writedown at Buzwagi
VANCOUVER — Based on production metrics, Tanzania-focused African Barrick Gold (LSE: ABG; US-OTC: ABGLF) is having a relatively good start to 2013. Over the past six months the company has beaten analysts’ earnings…
Oromin turns friendly to Teranga offer
Teranga Gold (TSX: TGZ; US-OTC: TGCDF; ASX: TGZ) and Oromin Explorations (TSX: OLE) have found an amicable way for Teranga to acquire whatever Oromin equity it doesn’t already own.
Edgewater stacks the gold ounces at Corcoesto in Spain
VANCOUVER — Edgewater Exploration (TSXV: EDW) is closing in on a production decision at its Corcoesto gold property in Galicia, Spain.
ITH’s Livengood struggles at today’s gold price
It doesn’t look like International Tower Hill Mines’ (TSX: ITH; NYSE: THM) huge Livengood gold project in Alaska will be hosting a mine construction crew any time soon. The company has released a feasibility study…
Workers strike at Tasiast; Kinross to pick up option at Las Pampas
News of a strike action at Kinross Gold’s (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) troubled Tasiast gold mine in Mauritania brings the total number of strikes to three since the Toronto-based producer acquired its 100% stake in 2010.
Chinese investment comes at a price for Champion Iron
A Hong Kong investment company has invested $3 million for an 11% stake in Champion Iron Mines (TSX: CHM) and its portfolio of iron ore properties in the Labrador Trough.
Newcrest swallows A$6.2B writedown
Newcrest Mining’s (TSX:NM; ASX: NCM) warning in early June that it would be taking up to a A$6-billion writedown on its various gold mining assets around the world has come to pass, and the bite is a little deeper than first anticipated…
Laramide’s Henderson takes the long view
Laramide Resources (TSX: LAM; US-OTC: LMRXF; ASX: LAM) ended 2012 with an enterprise value of less than US$1 per lb. in the ground for its district-scale uranium resource in Australia and a handful of smaller projects in the U.S. — yet…
Potash producers plummet after Russia’s Uralkali quits cartel
VANCOUVER — Russian major Uralkali (LSE: URKA) has apparently bowed out of one of the world’s two big potash cartels, which together supported prices by limiting supplies. It was an unexpected move that stunned the potash market on…