LONDON - La Mancha Group plans to buy more underground gold mines in Africa and is ready to snap up mines that Barrick Gold and Randgold Resources will sell after their merger, its billionaire chairman Naguib Sawiris said on Tuesday."The Barrick disposals might be in geographies where we are very strong and that makes sense for us," Sawiris told reporters on the sidelines of the Mines and Money co...Read More
Mr. Ralph Shearing reportsTELSON REACHES AGREEMENT WITH NYRSTAR TO AMEND LOAN AGREEMENTTelson Mining Corp. has reached an agreement to amend the terms of its loan agreement dated June 13, 2018, with Nyrstar Canada (Holdings) Ltd. The amended terms of the loan agreement will help Telson to better manage its cash flows at Campo Morado in a subdued zinc price environment.Effective Nov. 19, 2018, Tels...Read More
Mountain Province Diamonds (TSX, NASDAQ: MPVD) issued a statement today saying it expects the Gahcho Ku?(C) mine, its joint venture with De Beers, to produce between 6.6 and 6.9 million carats in 2019, recovered after processing 3.1 to 3.2 million tonnes of ore.This guidance for the new fiscal year estimates that production costs would be up to CAD$120 per tonne of ore processed and of CAD$50 to...Read More
Nevada Zinc (TSXV: NZN) announced today that it has started a Preliminary Economic Assessment on its flagship Lone Mountain zinc project.The project is located in Eureka County, east-central Nevada, and it comprises 231 claims covering 1,619 hectares. Nevada Zinc has run some drill programs on the property with results showing numerous broad intersections of medium to high-grade non-sulphide zinc...Read More
Vancouver, BC - good natured Products Inc. (TSX-V:GDNP) (the "Company" or "good naturedTM"), is pleased to announce that one of the largest herb growers in the Midwest U.S., Mariposa Farms, has made the switch away from petroleum-based PET packaging to good natured (R) plant-based materials.With a presence across 15 states supplying retailers such as Walmart, Hy-Vee, and Price Chopper as well as...Read More
The Canadian Mining Symposium, presented by The Northern Miner in cooperation with the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom, is returning to Canada House on Trafalgar Square in London, U.K., on May 22, 2019, and we are pleased to announce three stellar headline speakers for the event: David Harquail, CEO of Franco-Nevada Corporation; Steve Letwin, president and CEO of Iamgold; and Eir...Read More
November 27, 2018The next Fed meet (and rate hike) is December 19, and just weeks after that, U.S. president Donald "The Golden Trumpster" Trump may be set to unleash a new round of inflationary and growth-crushing tariffs.It's not easy (to put it mildly) for American business to create new factories to replace the products made by highly productive Chinese factories.So, for 2019, most top U.S. ba...Read More
Earlier this month, Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX:WPM)(NYSE:WPM) announced earnings for the most recent quarter, which showcased several notable drops when compared to the same quarter last year, leading to a drop in the stock's share price, which is currently trading down 5% this month.As the world's largest streamer of precious metals, a weaker than expected set of results from Wheaton could be a...Read More
Almost 82,000 shares in the company changed hands with the price rising C20c yesterday to 60c, despite any official news.Its shares had last Read More
Drilling operatiuons at Tinka's Ayawilca Project in Peru. Source: Tinka Resources Ltd.Tinka Resources Ltd. [TK-TSXV] has announced an updated mineral resource estimate for its 100%-owned Ayawilca zinc and tin deposits in Peru.The 150 km2 Ayawilca project is located 40 km northwest of Cerro de Pasco in the richly mineralized silver-lead-zinc belt of central Peru. It ranks as one of the largest zinc...Read More
The Genesee generating facility. Source: leduc-chamber.comAltius Minerals Corp. [ALS-TSX; ATUSF-OTCQX] said the Genesee Ltd. Partnership, of which Altius is the General Partner, has filed a law suit against the governments of Alberta and Canada.The law suit claims $190 million in damages while describing actions that it feels were tantamount to expropriation of its royalty interest in the Genesee...Read More
One of the greatest compliments that I think I can ever receive in life is if someone who really knows me tells me the following:“Jay, I’ve known you for a long time now, and you’re always the same dude.”The above comment might not seem like much, and albeit it can read rather vague if there’s no context behind it, but for a simple dude like myself, that’s reall...Read More
Share this articleCALGARY - Precision Drilling Corp. says it is entitled to a $20-million break fee after Ensign Energy Services Inc. announced Tuesday that it will take control of Trinidad Drilling Ltd. by acquiring a majority of Trinidad's shares.Calgary-based Precision, the largest driller in Canada, said the fee is owed as part of the Oct. 5 arrangement it had with Trinidad after terminatin...Read More
Share this articleCALGARY - Ensign Energy Services Inc. says it will take control of Trinidad Drilling Ltd. after acquiring a majority of the company's shares by its Tuesday deadline.The Calgary-based drilling company says 56.38 per cent of Trinidad shares have been tendered. The 154.1 million shares are in addition to the 26.9 million it also owns, raising its stake in Trinidad to 66.18 per cen...Read More
Here is the chart of Sotheby's (NYSE: BID).The company sells fine art, decorative art, jewelry, wine, and collectibles internationally. It most recently sold Marie Antoinette jewels for $53.2 million, which set a record. On the downside, a $40 million Vincent van Gogh failed to sell at all.In the latest quarter, revenue fell by two-thirds, and the company lost $27 million. What you may not know is...Read More
Share this articleWABUSH, N.L. - The Labrador mining town of Wabush is in for a much-needed economic boost as one of Canada's largest iron ore mines restarts production next year.Premier Dwight Ball was in Wabush today to announce the official reopening of the Scully mine, with hiring for 260 new jobs to begin over the next few weeks.Hundreds of people lost their jobs when Cliffs Natural Resou...Read More
Paul Morgan, senior geothermal geologist at the Colorado Geological Survey, was interviewed by Fox31 Denver about his involvement in the NASA Mars InSight mission, which landed safely on Mars on Monday, Nov. 26. Morgan is one of the U.S.-based co-investigators on the lander's Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe (HP3) and worked very closely on the probe's design with engineers at NASA's Jet...Read More
Ian Lange, assistant professor of economics and business at Colorado School of Mines, was recently recognized by the Denver Busines Journal for his contributions to the local energy industry. The annual Who's Who in Energy list features the region's top 100 executives from multiple sectors invovled in the energy industry, including oil and gas, accounting, finance, law and education. Lange, who j...Read More
Additional drilling at Tinka Resources' (TSXV: TK) 100%-owned Ayawilca project in the zinc-lead-silver belt of central Peru, 200 km northeast of Lima, has significantly grown the project's resource estimate from an assessment in 2015.The carbonate replacement deposit at Ayawilca contains two different types of mineralization, tin-copper mineralization (the tin zone), and zinc-indium-silver-lead m...Read More
On Nov. 8, McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX) entered into an equity distribution agreement with UBS Securities, BMO Capital Markets, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., H.C. Wainwright & Co., Roth Capital Partners and Alliance Global Partners to offer up to US$90 million of its common stock in the United States. Under the terms of the "at-the-market offering" filed with the United Securities Exchange Commi...Read More