December 19, 2014

Relative calm for PMs in wild markets

This week has been extremely volatile for oil, currencies and stock markets. Against this background gold and silver have drifted sideways to slightly lower, which given the dollar’s strong performance…

December 18, 2014

Trevali surges on polymetallic mine restart

Vancouver-based junior jumps 8.5% after hitting targets for re-start of 100%-owned Caribou zinc-lead-copper-silver-gold mine in New Brunswick, Canada.

December 18, 2014

Barrick to halt Lumwana mine in Zambia after tax hike

The Canadian giant had earlier said it would consider such a move in the event the new tax regime was approbed.

December 18, 2014

Gold and silver dominate November financings

Story developed using data from Mining Intelligence. Learn more and schedule a demo. Toronto and venture exchange companies raised $309M last month compared to $519M […]

December 18, 2014

Mining stocks rally across the board

Huge advances in all sectors from potash and uranium to copper and gold led by a 10% surge in diversified Canadian heavyweight Teck Resources.

December 17, 2014

John Williams: a downhill run for the dollar in 2015

Rosy GDP numbers may have cheered the masses, but John Williams of ShadowStats.com says we're a long way from prosperity.

December 17, 2014

Coeur Mining acquires Paramount Gold and Silver for $146 million

As part of the agreement, Paramount will spin off its non-Mexican assets into a standalone publicly listed company— Paramount Nevada Gold Corp.

December 16, 2014

Deep-sea mining pioneer now hunts for resources in space

Julian Malnic, the founder of world's first deep-sea miner Nautilus Minerals has joined the board of Deep Space Industries.

December 15, 2014

UK company sells gold, silver refineries after 162 years

Johnson Matthey sells refineries in US and Canada to metal recycler for $184 million in cash.

December 15, 2014

Miners back to work at Peru’s Antamina copper mine

This was the second time that Antamina’s workers down tools in about a month over demands for a bonus and other benefits.