The PDAC effect – a boost to mining stocks which is said to follow the massive convention in Toronto — didn’t last long this year as miners fell with the rest of the market during a disappointing March 7-11 period. In all the TSX Composite…
Vancouver – The S&P-TSX Venture composite index tumbled 173.08 points in the Mar. 7-11 trading week to close at 2,266.75. Trading volumes remained strong, however, averaging 193 million shares daily, with 110 companies hitting 52-week highs…
The annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association in Toronto might have ended on a high note with record attendance, but the same could not be said for U.S. equity markets during the Mar. 7-11 trading week. The Dow Jones…
It’s the stuff of prospectors’ dreams: Climb up a hillside in a little-explored area and stumble upon enough visible gold to justify all those years of trudging around alone in the bush.
Silvercorp Metals (SVM-T, SVMN) looks to have been vindicated of fraud allegations in a forensic audit, leading to a sharp recovery in its share price.
In the wake of Eldorado Gold’s (ELD-T, EGO-N) mid-2010 takeover of Brazauro Resources and its 2.1-million-oz. Tocantinzinho gold project, several Canadian juniors have ramped up their exploration efforts nearby in the hopes of finding the next…
As industrial metal prices continue to rise from their 2008 lows, Vancouver-based Reunion Gold (RGD-V) has refocused its exploration efforts away from precious metals and on to past-producing manganese mines in Guyana.
On paper, Royal Nickel (RNX-T) looks like a winning combination: A management and advisory team stacked with former Inco guys and seven billion pounds of nickel in the ground in Quebec’s Abitibi region, one of the friendliest mining…
Talk of a newly discovered mineral district may be premature, but interest is growing in an area roughly 150 km northwest of Anchorage, Alaska, thanks largely to Kiska Metals’ (KSK-V) efforts there.
After months of encouraging drill results, Richfield Ventures (RVC-V) has established a multi-million oz. gold resource at its Blackwater gold project in central British Columbia.
The opening technical session “Commodities and Market Outlook” of the Prospectors and Developers of Canada convention in Toronto gave a relatively upbeat outlook for precious metals, base metals and potash prices this year, especially…
The following is an excerpt from the World Exploration Trends 2011 report released by the Metals Economics Group. For the full report visit www.metalseconomics.com.
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