Mining Articles

Barrick Gold studied possible Newmont merger

February 22, 2019 / Resource World

The Turquoise Ridge gold mine 70 km northeast of Winnemucca, Nevada, owned as to 75% Barrick Gold and 25% Newmont Mining. Source: Barrick Gold Corp.Barrick Gold Corp. [ABX-TSX, NYSE] confirmed Friday February 22 that it has considered making a no-premium offer for Newmont Mining Corp. [NEM-NYSE] as the Canadian mining giant looks for ways to boost production.Barrick has reviewed the opportunity to...Read More

Acreage Holdings (OTCBB: ACRGF) Gets First Mover Advantage in North Dakota

February 22, 2019 / Jeff Siegel

While in college, I met a girl from Grand Forks, ND.She was stunningly gorgeous, and for some odd reason, took a liking to me.Unfortunately, I was a stupid kid and had no idea how to play it cool. Three days after meeting her, she took her ball and went home. And as much as it broke down my self confidence even further, I did learn a very valuable lesson: When you have an opportunity to make a mov...Read More

Lithium Chile (TSX-V: LITH): Owns Fifteen Projects, 159,950 Hectares on Li-Rich Salars in Chile; Interview with Steven Cochrane, President and CEO

22/2/2019 / Dr. Allen Alper, PhD Economic Geology and Petrology, Columbia University, NYC, USA

Lithium Chile (TSX-V: LITH) owns fifteen projects, encompassing 159,950 hectares on Li-rich Scalars in Chile - which has the largest, high-grade lithium reserves and lowest-cost lithium production in the world. At the 2019 Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, we learned from Steven Cochrane, who is President and CEO of Lithium Chile, that 2018 was a successful year. The Company drilled its fi...Read More

Investor Sentiment Drives Gold Rallies

February 22, 2019 / Luke Burgess

The price of gold is quietly on the rise.Over the past four weeks, gold prices have climbed over 5% to $1,350 an ounce - a 10-month high.And this could be just the beginning of a much broader rally - meaning if you want to get into gold, the time is now.Gold prices have been inching up dollar by dollar for a while now. If you take a look at a one-year chart of gold, you'll see prices bottomed out...Read More

Interview with Randy Smallwood, President and CEO of Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX: WPM, NYSE: WPM)

22/2/2019 / Dr. Allen Alper, PhD Economic Geology and Petrology, Columbia University, NYC, USA

Wheaton Precious Metals?,,? Corp. (TSX: WPM, NYSE: WPM) is one of the largest precious metals streaming companies in the world. Wheaton currently has streaming agreements for 19 operating mines and 9 development stage projects. We learned from Randy Smallwood, President and CEO of Wheaton Precious Metals, that in 2018 the Company made their first venture into cobalt, by acquiring a cobalt stream f...Read More

Commentary: Four traps in US mining law for the unwary Canadian miner

February 22, 2019 / R Craig Johnson and Kevin W Johnson

Acquiring unpatented mining claims on federal "public lands" in the United States is considerably different than acquiring tenures under the mining law in Canada or elsewhere in the world where a "registration" system is used to validate claim ownership.The U.S. law is based on the General Mining Law of 1872. Under that law, the right to locate is "self-initiated" (meaning no act of the federal go...Read More

Golden Star boosts Father Brown inferred resource 93%

February 22, 2019 / Posted Northern Miner Staff

Golden Star Resources (TSX: GSC; NYSE: GSS) has boosted the inferred resource at its Father Brown gold project in Ghana 93% to 2.3 million tonnes grading 6.4 grams gold per tonne for 474,743 oz. gold. It also updated the project's indicated resource, which now totals 981,465 tonnes at 7.5 grams gold for 237,897 oz. gold.Father Brown consists of the Father Brown and Adoikrom pits, which the company...Read More

Nighthawk finds more high-grade gold showings at Indin Lake project in NWT

February 22, 2019 / Posted Northern Miner Staff

Regional exploration last year on its Indin Lake property, 200 km north of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. turned up high-grade gold in grab samples taken in three different areas including 174.50 grams gold per tonne at Fishhook, the southernmost project on its 899-sq-km land package, Nighthawk Gold (TSX: NHK; US-OTC: MIMZF) reports.Fishhook consists of several historical gold showings...Read More

Barrick Gold confirms talks of merger with Newmont

February 22, 2019 / Cecilia Jamasmie at MININGcom

Canada's Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD), the world's second-largest gold producer, may eclipse its recent merger with Randgold Resources by buying rival gold major Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) in a US$19 billion all-share deal.Commenting on media speculation, the Canadian miner confirmed it had reviewed the opportunity to merge with the U.S. miner in an all-share, nil-premium transaction. "No...Read More

Commentary: Partnerships with First Nations key to Canada's mining resurgence

February 22, 2019 / David de Launay

If you are reading this on a cell phone or a computer, you have fueled the demand for the dozens of minerals that go into those devices. Copper, nickel, zinc, cobalt, gold, silver - just to name a few - are the backbone of the ever-growing digital economy. The greater the Cloud, the more expansive the search for and production of the Earth's bounty of minerals.It's the same in the technological pr...Read More

The Race For Moon Riches

February 22, 2019 / Jason Simpkins

On January 3, China landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon - a historic first.Another milestone was reached yesterday, when SpaceX launched the first commercial lunar lander on behalf of Israel.If it succeeds, Israel will become the fourth country to make it to the moon, behind Russia, America, and China.Of course, it won't be the last... even in just 2019.Because two more moon missions a...Read More

Really Bad Ideas, Part 7: Open Borders

February 22, 2019 / Staff reporter

Now that we're all free to speak our minds (maybe we should we call this the "post-political-caution world") a lot of previously discredited ideas have re-emerged and are being tossed into the debate - apparently without much thought to, for instance, their horrendous unintended consequences. One such idea that's, ahem, gaining a lot of currency lately is Modern Monetary Theory (previously known...Read More

$IART - Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation (IART) CEO Peter Arduini on Q4 2018 Results - Earnings Call Trans...

Thu Feb 21 23:01:25 2019 / Staff reporter

"$IART - Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation (IART) CEO Peter Arduini on Q4 2018 Results - Earnings Call Transcript https://t.co/wlzdseAIum"Read full newsRead More

Euro Sun Mining (TSX:ESM,OTC Pink:CPNFF) Says Rovina Shines Bright Despite Falling Shares

Thu Feb 21 22:52:01 2019 / Staff reporter

The company's share price fell more than 14 percent over the day following the release of a PEA for the Rovina Valley project.Read full newsRead More

Bonterra Resources Announces $30 million Private Placement

Thu Feb 21 22:48:44 2019 / Bonterra Resources Inc.

Bonterra Resources Inc. (TSXV:BTR, US:BONXF, FSE:9BR1) (theRead full newsRead More

Marin Katusa "FOREVER ROYALTIES" stock is

Thu Feb 21 22:48:42 2019 / Staff reporter

The stock that Marin Katusa has been touting as his "FOREVER ROYALTIES" stock in my opinion is Lucara Diamond. He has pitched Lucara many times as you can see here. The royalty part com...Read full newsRead More

Marin Katusa "FOREVER ROYALTIES" stock is

Thu Feb 21 22:48:42 2019 / Staff reporter

The stock that Marin Katusa has been touting as his "FOREVER ROYALTIES" stock in my opinion is Lucara Diamond. He has pitched Lucara many times as you can see here. The royalty part com...Read full newsRead More

Illinois Hopes to Fix $134 Billion Pension Shortfall By Issuing More #Debt | Zero Hedge

Thu Feb 21 22:36:43 2019 / Staff reporter

The latest Democrat clearly failing to understand that the answer to solving debt is not more debt is Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker.Read full newsRead More

Shares of Acacia Mining (LSE:ACA) shot up after Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX,NYSE:GOLD) and the Tanzanian government put t...

Thu Feb 21 21:58:01 2019 / Staff reporter

"Shares of Acacia Mining (LSE:ACA) shot up after Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX,NYSE:GOLD) and the Tanzanian government put together a proposal to end the ongoing dispute over taxes. https://t.co/BX14cNUHzJ @AcaciaMining @BarrickGold #preciousmetals #mining"Read full newsRead More

Why Is Central Bank Buying Of Gold So Important?

21 February, 2019 / Avi Gilburt

By Avi Gilburt, ElliottWaveTrader.net There is an old Yiddish expression called a bubbe meise (pronounced my-seh). I guess the closest English interpretation of this expression would be a grandmother's tale, or in the common vernacular, an old-wives' tale.Of late, I am seeing a bubbe meise about the importance of central bank buying of gold, and it is making its rounds on websites all over the i...Read More

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