March 7, 2016

Go for Gold with The Goodman Gold Challenge

The Goodman School of Mines and Laurentian University are proud to announce the inaugural Goodman Gold Challenge (GGC), an investment management competition for undergraduate students. The competition will be held…

March 7, 2016

BC mineral explorers highlight decreasing land base during PDAC convention

This week, the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) is highlighting how restrictive land access and use regulations and policies are putting the future mineral exploration and development…

March 7, 2016

Silver Standard to buy fellow Canadian miner Claude Resources

The deal values Claude Resources at Cdn$377 million in total or the equivalent of about $1.65 per share.

March 7, 2016

Global mining exploration down 19% in 2015

The global exploration sector continues to struggle against strong market headwinds, a new reprt shows.

March 6, 2016

EY’s Canadian mining index gains 2% in Q4

The first green shoots of a mining rally showed themselves in the fourth quarter, according to a new report from EY describing the performance of the Canadian Mining Eye Index.

March 4, 2016

Mining stocks in once-a-decade rally

Friday's jump in copper and iron ore prices propel mining stocks to biggest weekly gain since 2008.

March 4, 2016

Mining to boost Peruvian GDP this year despite low copper prices

The country expects around $56 billion worth of mining projects to come on stream this year.

March 4, 2016

Endeavour Mining to buy True Gold and new African gold mine

The Cdn$240 million deal is expected to close in late April.

March 4, 2016

Freeport won’t sell stake in Serbian copper project to Lundin

The $263 million deal is expected to close in the second quarter.

March 4, 2016

Gold is trading at highest price in more than a year

Prices hit $1274.70 an ounce Friday morning, up 1% from their closing yesterday and their highest level since February 2015