May 2, 2024

Contango grows Alaska gold footprint with two major buys

Contango is buying HighGold Mining and Avidian Gold Alaska, which will boost its annual production to over 150,000 ounces.

May 2, 2024

Gold price falls as investors face long wait until Fed rate cuts

Bullion rose 1.3% to $2,314.99 an ounce as of 3:54 p.m. in New York.

May 1, 2024

Pan American sells La Arena gold project in Peru to Zijin for $295 million

Zijin will grant Pan American a life-of-mine gold net smelter return royalty of 1.5%.

May 1, 2024

i-80 Gold closes $83 million offering for projects in Nevada

i-80 owns the Lone Tree property, including the former mine of the same name, in the Battle Mountain trend.

May 1, 2024

Thesis grows M+I gold equivalent to 4 million oz. at Lawyers-Ranch project

The new resource estimate includes 82 million tonnes grading 1.51 g/t gold equivalent in the measured and indicated categories.

May 1, 2024

Western Copper and Gold closes $33 million offering to advance Casino project

The copper-gold deposit is one of the largest in Canada.

May 1, 2024

Barrick CEO ‘can’t see any reason’ for in-person annual meetings

Last year's in-person meeting included a heated exchange between CEO Mark Bristow and an activist protesting the Reko Diq copper project.

May 1, 2024

Red Pine Exploration plunges as it retracts all assays for Wawa gold project

The company last year received a C$6.8 million cash injection from Franco-Nevada.

May 1, 2024

Textiles help selectively recover gold from e-waste

Polyacrylonitrile fibres have been found to improve molecular gold recovery.

May 1, 2024

Barrick Gold beats estimates for quarterly profit, enters JV in Jamaica

Barrick's gold production fell to 940,000 ounces in the quarter, but average realized gold prices rose to $2,075.