February 26, 2018

Australia’s top gold miner boosts bets on Ecuador’s riches

Newcrest to invest $250 million to take stake in Lundin Gold.

February 25, 2018

South Africa’s NUM union says 1,722 jobs to go at Evander Gold Mine

Deteriorating and inadequate infrastructure at the mine, high operating costs, such as rising electricity, labour costs, and a low gold price.

February 25, 2018

Nickel-copper-cobalt find vaults Vancouver junior to top of TSX-V ranking

Garibaldi Resources beats out tech, energy, life sciences firms for Toronto market's annual crown with 2,351% market cap gain and 150m shares traded.

February 25, 2018

How Tesla and Google jets could enrich a money-losing gold miner

Long-struggling Comstock Mining Inc. is selling a 98-acre patch of land next to the Silver Springs Airport outside Reno, Nevada.

February 25, 2018

Burkina Faso seeks new partner for $1 billion manganese project

Burkina Faso is looking for a new partner to mine the world’s largest manganese deposit after rights disputes thwarted two earlier attempts.

February 23, 2018

Galician MP denounces tailings pond breach

Lídia Senra filed a complaint before the European Commission denouncing the breach of a tailings pond in the Touro municipality.

February 23, 2018

German scientists to build machine that speeds up urban mining processes

Some urban mining already takes place in the EU but it involves melting devices together in a furnace and removing the most valuable metals.

February 23, 2018

USD and Gold cycles

There were only four cycles compared to six in the US dollar: two gold bull markets and two gold bear markets.

February 23, 2018

Gold oddly remains out of favor

The fear, anxiety, and apathy still plaguing gold lies in the psychology of gold’s two primary driving forces, futures speculators and stock investors.

February 23, 2018

Endeavour on track to pour first gold from Ity mine next year

Firm said the $412-million construction project to upgrade the Ivory Coast-based gold mine remained on-time and on-budget.