September 1, 2011

Claymore Silver Bullion Trust files prospectus for $75 million offering

Claymore Silver Bullion Trust has filed a final short form prospectus in connection with a follow-on offering of hedged trust units, Toronto-based Claymore Investments, Inc. said Wednesday. The hedged units…

September 1, 2011

The credibility crash

Things turned hard in the markets since the last issue, and not in a good way. A lot of bad news has been priced into the market. At this point…

September 1, 2011

Aura Silver Closes $1.6 Million First Tranche of Brokered Private Placement Financing

Aura Silver Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:AUU) ("Aura Silver" or the "Company") announces that it has closed the first tranche of its brokered private placement financing issuing 7,670,587 flow-through units (the…

September 1, 2011

Gold and silver market morning

Gold closed at $1,829 in New York yesterday then slipped to $1,823 in Asia before slipping further at the London Fix to $1,815.50 in the morning, still $2 higher than…

September 1, 2011

Tracking Gold

Recently, we’ve received a number of emails from readers asking why the primary gold ETF, SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE:GLD), doesn’t more closely track the price of gold, and other related…

September 1, 2011

Cartier cuts 1.5 % copper and 100 g/t silver over 19 metres on Cadillac extension

VAL-D'OR, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Sept. 1, 2011) - Cartier Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ECR) ("Cartier") is pleased to announce that additional results from channel samples returned 1.5 % copper and 100 g/t…

September 1, 2011

Goldstrike discovers intrusive related gold mineralization in Yukon

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 1, 2011) - Goldstrike Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:GSR)(PINK SHEETS:ADRAF)(FRANKFURT:KCG1) is pleased to report that initial rock samples from outcrop have returned up to 4.003 grams…

September 1, 2011

Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. highlights results for 4th quarter of fiscal 2011

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 1, 2011) - Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. ("Petaquilla" or the "Company") (TSX:PTQ)(OTCBB:PTQMF)(FRANKFURT:P7Z) announces that its fourth quarter results of fiscal year 2011 show significant improvements. As…

September 1, 2011

Copper-gold-silver mineralization at Empire Mining’s Demirtepe project in Turkey is hosted in high-value Wollastonite mineralization

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 1, 2011) - Empire Mining Corporation (TSX VENTURE:EPC) ("Empire") is pleased to report that initial studies that it commissioned on the wollastonite mineralization in the…

September 1, 2011

Aviva: initial base metal mineral resource – Bumbo Project West Kenya

Aviva Corporation Ltd is pleased to announce it has recently completed a maiden resource on the Bumbo Base Metal Deposit in West Kenya. "The initial resource has exceeded our expectations…