TSX closes nearly flat Mar. 24 after week of mixed signals
Stocks ended the Mar. 20-24 trading period with a modest gain as investors weighed the impact of the banking crisis in the United States while central banks appeared near the…
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TSXV registers a gain during Mar. 20-24 trading week
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index increased 6.8 points or 1.1% over the Mar. 20-24 trading session, ending at 611.88. The week’s top value gainer was Houston, Texas-based Itafos, which closed…
US indices inch higher during Mar. 20-24 trading week
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 604.76 points or 1.89% and the S&P 500 closed 72.15 points or 1.6% higher at 3,979.15 over the Mar. 20-24 trading week. Mexico and…
Mexico okays Pan American Silver-Yamana Gold deal
Mexico’s antitrust authority Cofece has approved Pan American Silver‘s (TSX: PAAS; NASDAQ: PAAS) acquisition of all issued and outstanding common shares of Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY; LSE: AUY), which…
Panama launches public consultations on new contract with First Quantum Minerals
The Panamanian government launched a 30-day non-binding public consultation process related to the contract it signed with First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM), the operator of the Cobre Panama mine. Following…
Scotgold Resources shares collapse on grades and funding woes
Shares in troubled miner Scotgold Resources (LSE: SQZ) fell more than 70% on Monday after it warned there was “significant” uncertainty over its ability to keep operations going at Scotland’s…
Video: Patricia Mohr outlines Canada’s key advantages in the critical minerals space
Canadian Mining Journal Editor-in-Chief Tamer Elbokl spoke with economist, founder of the publication Critical Metals for a Sustainable World, and former vice-president with Scotiabank, Patricia Mohr at PDAC 2023 in…
Video: SRK Consulting’s Jeff Parshley on the social side of mine closure
The Northern Miner caught up with the world’s biggest mining technical consulting group SRK Consulting at PDAC in Toronto in March 2023. Tamer Elbokl, Editor-in-Chief of TNM sister publication Canadian…
Mitsubishi to buy 5% stake in Western Copper to advance Casino project in Yukon
Western Copper and Gold (TSX: WRN; NYSE-AM: WRN) announced Friday a strategic equity investment by Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials to advance the company’s Casino copper-gold project in Yukon towards development. Mitsubishi…
The View from England: Myopic politicians seeing nuclear at last
Politicians everywhere have a tendency to make decisions based on short-term outcomes that might become catastrophic in the long term. There are few better examples of this than legislation in…
Strong market for emeralds, rubies, lifts Gemfields revenue to a record high
Shares in coloured gems miner Gemfields (LSE: GEM; JSE: GML) climbed more than 5% on Friday after it posted record revenue for 2022, exceeding the US$300-million mark for the first time….
Bolivia pushes for Latin America-wide lithium policy
Bolivia’s government is calling its lithium-producing neighbours to forge ahead with the idea of setting a Latin America-wide policy on the exploitation of the coveted battery metal. The idea, part…