Mali plans to boost funding opportunities for its artisanal miners and to improve the policing of a sector that produces about a third of the country's gold exports, officials said on Thursday at the start of a mining reform meeting.

Former Barrick Gold chief executive Jamie Sokalsky has been appointed a director and the next non-executive chairman of junior gold explorer Probe Mines Ltd.

Premier Gold Mines Limited (TSX:PG) is pleased to provide an update for the Company's 100% owned Hardrock Project, located near Geraldton, Ontario.

A scan of major gold producers’ earnings suggests the cost of mining gold has risen dramatically over the past few years.

Historically September is the best month for the gold price and gold stocks, but 2014 has turned the market on its head.

A few weeks ago, we heard from Pierre Lassonde of Franco-Nevada on the power of the royalty business model. Just recently, I spoke with another ‘superstar’ of the natural resource industry -- Frank Giustra.

A heavily laden conveyor can have an enormous amount of potential energy, so has to be treated with the utmost respect if accidents are to be avoided. Steve Powell, Product Manager for Twiflex Ltd., an Altra Industrial Motion company, looks at parked-off conveyor brakes, and how they can improve safety during maintenance.

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Resource industry sales were awful.