September 12, 2016

Victoria Gold outlines $508m Yukon mine

Fully permitted Eagle Gold mine will average 200,000 ounces per year for 10 years at all-in costs of just $638 an ounce.

September 12, 2016

Gold price: Hedge fund bears in about turn

Large scale speculators push bullish gold bets to 940 tonnes, the second highest on record.

September 11, 2016

Dufferin gold mine could be reopened by Vancouver company

A Vancouver company says it plans to acquire and restart a gold-mining operation on Nova Scotia's east coast.

September 11, 2016

Visualizing the size of the U.S. national debt

The U.S. national debt currently sits at $19.5 trillion, which is actually such a large number that it is truly difficult for the average person to comprehend.

September 11, 2016

Stars aligning for platinum price

Study predicts fifth year of growing deficits and halving of above ground stocks as strikes in top producer South Africa loom.

September 11, 2016

South African mining output falls sharply

PGMs down nearly 10% and manganese production down 24%.

September 11, 2016

NASA’s latest mission may tell us whether asteroid mining is really a go

OSIRIS-REx will collect samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth, in what it could be a pivotal step for firms currently planning to tap into the space mining…

September 10, 2016

A reality-based methodology for evaluating opportunities in the junior mining sector

On August 22, Orezone Gold (ORE.V) announced that, as a result of a resource review and update, approximately 30% of the previously estimated oxide gold resource was eliminated from its…

September 9, 2016

Trilogy follows Kennecott’s footsteps in Alaska

A century later, a new high-grade mining story in Alaska is emerging and has quietly attracted an incredible list of backers including Electrum Group, Paulson and Co, Baupost Group, and…

September 9, 2016

Mongolia readies to revive its giant Tavan Tolgoi coal mine

Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi (ETT), the state-owned company that holds the license to the deposit, has already begun evaluating bids and calculating the potential economic benefits of restarting it.