Scientists at Northwestern University have experimentally replicated a medieval gold purification method employed by West Africans in the 10th and 11th centuries.
News ID: 4603 Publish Date : 2019/05/21
Venezuela sold about $570 million in gold from central bank reserves over the past two weeks, skirting U.S. Treasury sanctions designed to freeze assets of the Nicolas Maduro’s administration, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
News ID: 4585 Publish Date : 2019/05/19
Canadian bullion producer IAMGOLD Corp. (TSX IMG), (NYSE: IAG) said it wasn’t aware of any material change that would account for a sharp price rise in its stock on Thursday and into early trading on Friday, following reports that the miner was exploring a possible sale of all or parts of its business.
News ID: 4583 Publish Date : 2019/05/19
Shares of Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. (TSX and NASDAQ: MPVD) surged on Thursday after releasing its latest mineral resource estimates at the Faraday 2 kimberlite, located within the Kennady North Project, NWT, Canada. The stock rebounded by more than 12% at the open in Toronto, lifting the company's market capitalization to over C$256 million.
News ID: 4339 Publish Date : 2019/04/12
The Silver Institute has released a report saying global silver demand rose 4% – to 1.03 billion oz. – in 2018. This is the first time since 2015 that demand has risen year-over-year.
News ID: 4337 Publish Date : 2019/04/12
Shareholders in US gold giant Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM) have almost unanimously approved the miner’s proposed $10B takeover of Canada’s Goldcorp (TSX:G) (NYSE:GG), a deal that creates the world’s largest gold producer by market value, output and reserves, robbing Barrick of its recently cemented supremacy.
News ID: 4335 Publish Date : 2019/04/12
Barrick Gold Corp. could find itself partially liable for $600 million in additional debt, if some Newmont Mining Corp. bondholders have their way.
News ID: 4322 Publish Date : 2019/04/11
The president and CEO of Vancouver-based Mountainstar Gold has been slapped with a C$150,000 penalty by the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) for making “false or misleading statements” regarding the Pascua Lama gold deposit in Chile.
News ID: 4320 Publish Date : 2019/04/11
Ecuador-focused miner SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) said drilling at its Cascabel copper-gold project in the country’s north has revealed previously unknown mineralization, further increasing the size of one of the biggest copper discoveries of recent years.
News ID: 4319 Publish Date : 2019/04/11
Canada’s First Vanadium (TSX-V: FVAN) has published indicated mineral resources for its Nevada-based Carlin project, considered the largest, highest grade primary vanadium deposit in North America.
News ID: 4318 Publish Date : 2019/04/11
Greenstone Gold Mines, a 50/50 joint venture between Canadian miners Centerra Gold (TSX:CG) and Premier Gold (TSX:PG), has kicked off a core and reverse circulation drilling program at its Hardrock project in southern Ontario.
News ID: 4296 Publish Date : 2019/04/10
Shares in Canada’s Stornoway Diamond Corp. (TSX:SWY) fell on Tuesday after it announced that it would halt operations at its Renard 65 open pit mine, in the Canadian province of Quebec.
News ID: 4295 Publish Date : 2019/04/10
With President Donald Trump’s apparent plans to nominate Stephen Moore and Herman Cain to the Federal Reserve Board, attention has turned once again to the gold standard, a policy option once advocated by both men. Trump himself has expressed admiration for the gold standard.
News ID: 4294 Publish Date : 2019/04/10
Africa-focused Firestone Diamonds (LON:FDI) has dug up a 72-carat yellow, whole makeable diamond at its Liqhobong Mine in Lesotho, the second one over 70-carat it has found this year.
News ID: 4276 Publish Date : 2019/04/09
China’s on a bullion-buying spree. The world’s second-largest economy expanded its gold reserves for the fourth straight month, adding to optimism that central banks globally will continue to build holdings.
News ID: 4261 Publish Date : 2019/04/08
The gold miners’ stocks are still marching, grinding higher on balance in a solid upleg. While interest in this sector has faded since late February, it is nicely set up for a strong rally. After consolidating high and establishing a sturdy base, the gold miners are likely to soon report greatly-improved first-quarter results. Couple that with gold itself powering higher, and the slumbering gold stocks should surge substantially.
News ID: 4260 Publish Date : 2019/04/08
Barrick Gold Corp. boosted Executive Chairman John Thornton’s total compensation last year 67 percent to $12.9 million, rewarding the former investment banker for the company’s performance and his role in the merger with Randgold Resources Ltd.
News ID: 4259 Publish Date : 2019/04/08
On Alrosa’s (MICEX: ALRS) Capital Markets Day on March 18th, the company said the most frequently asked questions it gets during 1-on-1 meetings with investors are those related to the impact that “synthetic” diamonds will have on the business.
News ID: 4233 Publish Date : 2019/04/07
West Africa is well endowed with mineral resources, and many world-class deposits have been discovered there in recent years. The region is a key source of gold, iron ore, bauxite, diamonds, phosphate, uranium, and its mainly untapped mineral wealth provides exceptional greenfield development potential.
News ID: 4182 Publish Date : 2019/03/30
Canada’s Maverix Metals (TSX-V: MMX) entered into a life of mine purchase and sale agreement this week for silver produced from the El Mochito mine, owned and operated by Ascendant Resources (TSX: ASND) in Honduras.
News ID: 4173 Publish Date : 2019/03/30
