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Mills spin at Fortuna Silver Mines' Caylloma silver-gold-zinc-lead mine in southern Peru. Source: Fortuna Silver

Drilling returns more silver and gold at Fortuna’s mines

VANCOUVER — Gold and silver prices struggled in April, which meant most precious metal producers saw their share prices slide. For Fortuna Silver Mines (FVI-T, FSM-N), however, a slumping share price belies strong financials and promising…


Husky Energy's Sunrise oilsands project under construction in Alberta. The project is two-thirds away from completion, according to the company.

Husky ready to make the Sunrise

There are an estimated 170 billion barrels of oil in Alberta’s oilsands, but getting them all out is proving to be a costly venture. As with the metal mining industry, mining for oil has been subjected to steep cost inflation over the…


Logging core at Sunridge Gold's Asmara copper-zinc-gold project in Eritrea. Source: Sunridge Gold

Sunridge brightens Asmara’s economics

Sunridge Gold (SGC-V) has outlined stronger economics for its prized Asmara copper-zinc-gold project in Eritrea in a feasibility study that outshines last year’s prefeasibility study. 




Canadian Natural on track with Horizon expansion

Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ-T) is moving along with its staged expansion at its prized Horizon oilsands project near Fort McMurray, Alberta, to boost the current production capacity to 250,000 barrels.


JV partners grow resource at Woodjam

In a little over a year, partners Consolidated Woodjam Copper (WCC-V) and Gold Fields (GFI-N) have grown the inferred resource at the Southeast zone on their Woodjam property in the Cariboo region of central British Columbia from 146.5 million…


Coeur’s revamp

Idaho-based silver producer Coeur d’Alene Mines (CDM-T, CDE-N) is charting a new course to thrive in the changing and turbulent market by optimizing assets and trimming costs, while still keeping an eye out for growth.



TSX Venture Exchange, May 6-10

The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index treaded water during the trading period despite a rally across North American stock markets. The Venture gained 0.2%, or 2.05 points, en route to a 966.73-point close, as commodity prices stayed soft and…


A Merrill-Crowe processing plant under construction at Allied Nevada Gold's Hycroft gold mine in Nevada. Source: Allied Nevada

Allied Nevada ponders scale-back

Allied Nevada Gold (ANV-T, ANV-N) is considering a more modest proposal for expanding its Hycroft mill in Nevada, and that has dismayed the markets.



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