During his farewell speech to shareholders at the company’s annual meeting on April 30, Barrick Gold’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) founder and departing chairman Peter Munk said John Thornton is the “right guy” to…
Semafo (TSX: SMF) decided some short term pain would be worth the long term gain.
Roxgold (TSXV: ROG) is trying to define a second resource on its 100%-owned Yaramoko property in Burkina Faso’s Houndé greenstone region, and the latest drill results from the company’s QV1 target — about 1.8 km south…
Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC) had a very good 2013 at its Karowe mine in Botswana, reporting annual financial results in February that exceeded expectations. The company reported revenues of US$180.5…
Global production of rough diamonds in 2014 is expected to reach roughly 135 million carats valued at US$17.8 billion, an increase of 3% over last year. The world’s 50 largest…
VANCOUVER — An offtake agreement with a US$50-million prepayment has given Mawson West (TSX: MWE; US-OTC: MWSWF) the funds it needs to finish building its Kapulo copper–silver mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) has slashed the projected start-up costs of a mill expansion project at its Tasiast gold mine in Mauritania by 41% to US$1.6 billion, as shown in a new feasibility study, but intends to wait until 2015 before…
A fire has put operations on hold at Perseus Mining’s (TSX: PRU; US-OTC: PMNXF) Edikan processing gold plant in Ghana, but the company says things are under control.
A Chinese consortium led by MMG, an arm of state-owned China Minmetals Group, is buying Glencore Xstrata’s (LSE: GLEN) enormous Las Bambas copper project in Peru for US$5.85 billion in cash.
Just a day after the ink dried on Glencore Xstrata’s (LSE: GLEN) all-cash agreement to sell its Las Bambas copper project in Peru to a Chinese consortium for nearly US$6 billion, the Swiss-based commodities giant announced a US$1.35…
Toronto-based Banro (TSX: BAA; NYSE-MKT: BAA) has published an initial reserve estimate for its new Namoya gold mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pushing up company-wide reserves by 53% to 2.36 million oz.
VANCOUVER — West Africa-focused gold producer Golden Star Resources (TSX: GSC; NYSE-MKT: GSS) is defining the economics of mining an underground extension to its open-pit Wassa gold mine in southwestern Ghana.
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