June 13, 2013

Access to capital the top current challenge for the mining sector: Ernst & Young

The report also says junior miners will continue to be cash strapped for at least another year, as the global mining industry slows down.

June 13, 2013

Feasibility study complete, Pretium Resources anticipates 400,000oz of annual gold

Pretium Resources on track with Brucejack project after positive feasibility study.

June 12, 2013

Silver’s weakest month is here: Time to buy?

Looking at a seasonal chart for silver, after falling in June, silver tends to begin heading upward in July, and particularly September.

June 12, 2013

Seabed miner Nautilus handed breathing aid: $40 million after shares sale

The company will use it to keep up its plans of mining the deep blue frontier.

June 11, 2013

McEwen Mining plunges after dialling back ambitions

Stock drops 7% after lowering its 3-year gold equivalent target by more than 20% or 85,000 ounces.

June 11, 2013

Some like it hot: The outlook for industrial metals

Analyst Lisa Morrison discusses the price outlook for 26 commodities over the next four years and gives them a temperature rating from hot to freezing.

June 11, 2013

Asteroid mining firm hires former White House officer

Peter Marquez, former director of space policy under US Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, is Planetary Resources’s new vice president for global engagement.

June 10, 2013

Judgment in tailings management

On the simple pleasures and coming to a deeply-informed judgment in civil engineering.

June 7, 2013

Gold, silver and precious metal miners signals

The price of gold, silver and their related mining stocks have bucked the broad market up trend.

June 6, 2013

Emerging silver producers in Mexico

A look at five companies flocking to the country to try their luck.