BC mining financing dropped 40% in 2016
The mining industry still received 29% of the Canadian province’s top-grossing corporate financing deals.
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Erdene Resource moving forward with flagship project in Mongolia
While the company had other projects in the country, the Bayan Khundii gold project went from greenfield prospect to being its main asset in roughly nine months.
Barrick confirms selling half of Veladero to Shandong Gold for $960 million
Deal will also see the two firms looking at jointly developing the nearby Pascua-Lama gold, silver and copper project and evaluating additional investment opportunities in the area.
‘Conflict minerals’ entering tech supply chains from countries beyond Africa — report
Tungsten, tin, tantalum and gold are now also being illegally extracted and traded at sites under the control of armed groups in countries including Myanmar and Colombia.
Gold finds strong support from negative real rates
In case you haven’t already noticed, inflation has been steadily creeping up since July. In February, the most recent month of available data, consumer prices advanced at their fastest pace in five years, hitting 2.7 percent year-over-year.
Chinese buying 50% of Barrick Veladero, Pascua Lama-report
Veladero could fetch more than $1 billion despite operational setbacks.
When will Russia run out of oil?
Globally, exploratory drilling fell by almost 20 percent in 2015 and fell even further in 2016. Russia's exploration activities, suffered a double blow during this period.
Could Chad become the new African gold frontier?
A UK listed junior exploration company is hoping to switch Chad’s historic focus from black gold to the more traditional metallic variety with ‘potentially nation-building’ projects.
Escondida strike less damaging to Chile’s copper output than thought — report
Experts expect the country, which accounts for more 30% of the world's copper supply, to produce 5.4 million tonnes of the metal in 2017, slightly down from the 5.5mnt it yielded last year.
