Niger's Ministry of Mines issued a letter supporting the negotiations between Canada's GoviEx Uranium (TSXV: GXU) and the country's federal government regarding the Madaouela uranium project.Although final documents on their commercial understandings are yet to be signed, the Vancouver-based miner and country authorities have agreed that the Government of Niger will acquire a 10% working interest...Read More
Greenstone Gold Mines, a 50/50 joint venture between Canadian miners Centerra Gold (TSX:CG) and Premier Gold (TSX:PG), has kicked off a core and reverse circulation drilling program at its Hardrock project in southern Ontario.The company, which received the province's final approval for the proposed gold mine last month, aims to develop an open pit operation that could be in production for almost...Read More
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 8, 2019 / Ximen Mining Corp. (TSXV:XIM, ", Ximen", or the ", Company", )) announces that it has entered into an...Read full newsRead More
Anglo American's De Beers said Tuesday it saw rough diamond sales value jump about 10% in the third sales cycle of the year on the back of stable demand.The world's top diamond producer by value, which reports on 10 sales cycles each year, sold $575 million in its third sales cycle of this year, the highest since the fifth cycle of 2018, when it recorded $581 million.Chief executive Bruce Cleave...Read More
LONDON, April 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a story that began over 2,000 years ago when the Romans uncovered $16.8 billion in gold...Using only hammers...Read full newsRead More
TORONTO, April08, 2019(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HARTE GOLD CORP. ("Harte Gold" or the "Company") (TSX: HRT / OTC: HRTFF / Frankfurt: H4O) is pleased to announ...Read full newsRead More
Earlier this year, Filo Mining (TSXV: FIL; US-OTC: FLMMF) unveiled a prefeasibility study (PFS) for its Filo del Sol copper-gold-silver project, 140 km southeast of Copiapo, Chile, on the border between Chile and Argentina.The study assigns the project a US$1.3-billion, after-tax net present value at an 8% discount rate and a 23% after-tax internal rate of return. It uses metal prices of US$3 per...Read More
The gold miners' stocks are still marching, grinding higher on balance in a solid upleg. While interest in this sector has faded since late February, it is nicely set up for a strong rally. After consolidating high and establishing a sturdy base, the gold miners are likely to soon report greatly-improved first-quarter results. Couple that with gold itself powering higher, and the slumbering...Read More
Investors seeking access to outsized returns should look no further than exploration and development stage precious metals miners. There is a long-established history of those with quality properties, high ore grades, considerable exploration upside and a little bit of luck exploding in value as the market recognizes their earning potential.While many smaller precious metals miners will succumb to...Read More
Every now and then, a stock comes along that has the potential to outstrip the whole of the TSX index. It could be a weed stock, an oil stock, or an outperforming tech stock. Today we'll take a look at a silver stock with the potential to reward traders with some serious upside. It may be going cheap at the moment, but let's take a look at why that might be about to change.Great Panther Silver (TS...Read More
The company claims to be increasingly confident of development, and will appoint financial and legal advisors in the coming weeks to help it assess strategic and financing options emerging fromRead More
The company said it had received a letter from mines minister Hassan Braze Moussa supporting a commercial framework, reached between GoviEx and the government at high-level meetings, intended to rapidly progress the project.Under the key terms, which are yet to be finalised, the government will acquire a further 10% of the project, on top of its 10% free-carried interest, by converting a...Read More
Stornoway Diamond's Renard diamond mine in north-central Quebec. Source: Stornoway Diamond Corp.Stornoway Diamond Corp. [SWY-TSX; SWYDF-OTC] on Tuesday April 9 said it has decided to suspend open pit operations at its Renard Mine located about 250 km north of the Cree community of Mistissini and 350 km north of Chibougamau in the James Bay region of north-central Quebec, which will reduce operat...Read More
The Marimaca Project in northern Chile. Source: Coro Mining Corp.Coro Mining Corp. [COP-TSX] shares were active Tuesday April 9 after the company released an update from its Marimaca copper project in Chile and said it has appointed a new chief financial officer to replace Armando Veliz.Coro shares advanced on the news, rising 5% or $0.005 to 10.5 cents on volume of 886,600. The shares trade in...Read More
Paramount Gold Nevada Corp. (NYSE American: PZG) owns 100% of the Grassy Mountain Gold Project, which consists of approximately 11,000 acres, located on private and BLM land in Malheur County, Oregon. The project contains a gold-silver deposit (100% located on private land) for which results of a positive PFS have been released in 2018 and key permitting milestones accomplished. At PDAC2019, we le...Read More
Ray Dalio is billed as the world's greatest hedge fund manager. At least that is what they said when he was on 60 Minutes Sunday night touting his book Principles.On the program, he talked about the wealth gap, the pending social revolution, and his personal guilt at being so rich without actually earning it...His main point was that there is a lack of opportunity for poor people to move into the...Read More
The Petroleum Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines won three of the nine technical awards given out this year by the Rocky Mountain Region of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).Linda Battalora, teaching professor of petroleum engineering, is the winner of the 2019 Regional Sustainability and Stewardship in the Oil and Gas Industry Award.Will Fleckenstein, adjunct professor of...Read More
SANTIAGO, CHILE - Mention electric vehicles and copper industry executives' eyes dazzle like the headlights on a Tesla.As electric motors and lithium batteries replace combustion engines, cars, buses and trucks are all going to contain a lot more copper.This is good news for attendees at CESCO Week, the copper industry's annual get together in Santiago. For them, coal mining is consigned to the...Read More
In 2012, A10, a leading Brazilian M&A and private equity firm, used its personal capital and partners' funds to back Sigma Lithium Resources (TSXV: SGMA; US-OTC: SGMLF) and its hard-rock lithium project.A10 took the company public and raised its stake from 72% before the IPO to 75%, the regulatory cap under Brazilian law."We actually bought more stock since we took it public and we haven't sold a...Read More
The spot gold price fell 0.04% to US$1,291.40 per ounce. The Philadelphia Gold & Silver Index rose 0.62% to 76.84 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.9% to 26,424.99. The S&P 500 Index rose 2.6% to 2,892.74.Shares of Lithium Americas rose 27% to US$4.80, after the company announced that Ganfeng Lithium would invest US$160 million in its Cauchari-Olaroz lithium project by buying new shares...Read More