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A mine tour of Pershing Gold's Relief Canyon project. Credit: Pershing Gold.

Pershing Gold’s Relief Canyon nears production

Pershing Gold (NASDAQ: PGLC) is closer to turning the past-producing Relief Canyon heap-leach gold mine in Nevada into one of the newest producers in the Silver state. “This is not an…






Workers log core at Barrick's Goldrush project in Nevada. Credit: Barrick Gold.

Analysts see buoyant gold in 2016

Gold prices rallied in mid-March on the back of the U.S.Federal Reserve’s decision to lower interest rate expectations for 2016, with many economists and analysts forecasting the yellow metal would…






Deltion Innovations’ drill on a rover during a 2012 deployment on the slopes of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Photo by Joe Bibby

Space mining ready for lift off

Mining and space exploration seem like two fields that couldn’t be further apart. Miners plunge deep into the earth’s crust, while space explorers seek to propel humankind in the opposite…


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