Before ballots were cast, a persuasive group of Silver Democrats, mostly from the silver mining states of the Far West, managed to get on the platform committee and asked Bryan to speak at the convention in favor of a contested plank that would …
With precious metals prices bouncing off six-year lows, gold and silver miners are finally turning around. The PureFunds ISE Junior Silver ETF (NYSEArca: SILJ), which tracks small-cap silver miners, was the best performing non-leveraged ETF of February …
Along Central African Republic's (CAR) eastern rivers small groups of independent miners are searching for diamonds and gold. As with many miners, they have to pay for a licence. Their licence, however, is not issued by any government. Violent armed …
In 2015, preliminary estimated gold production by the top publicly-traded and non state-owned gold mining companies amounted to 30.78 Moz, a 1% increase compared to 2014 totals (30.39 Moz). Five out of the 10 miners suffered a decline in their …
Grades returned over long continuous drill intercepts continue to compare favourably to the range of copper equivalent grades at active BC porphyry copper (± molybdenum ± gold ± silver) mines. Highlights from the 2014 and 2015 drill programs include:.
The Macquarie Facility and the Equipment Facility are complementary and together would provide up to US$26.5 million towards the estimated pre-production capital of US$33.0 million required to construct the planned gold-silver mine at the Moss Mine site.
At a time when Nigeria faces mounting pressure for alternative sources of income following dwindling oil revenues, the country is also said to be losing about $1.54 billion annually to illegal mining of gold – huge amount of money unaccounted for …
New York listed shares in Barrick Gold rallied 40.3 per cent for the month, Newmont Mining shares climbed 29.5 per cent, Goldcorp shares climbed 26.5 per cent, while shares in Kinross Gold jumped 78 per cent. The rally in gold miners comes as the …
According to Zacks, “Primero Mining Corporation is engaged in exploration, acquisition and development of mineral resource properties. The Company mainly explores for gold and silver. Its properties include San Dimas gold-silver mine in Mexico. It …
This is a strong week for Pan American Silver Corp. (PAAS). The company's rating climbs to B from the previous week's C. Pan American Silver Corp. is a silver mining company with its principal property in Peru. The company also gets A's in earnings …
Exploration to date on the Eastern Borosi Project has outlined several tens of kilometres of highly prospective mineralized structures located in an historic gold-silver mining district. Targets have been defined by surface soil and rock sampling …
Police destroyed illegal gold mining operations in the deforested area known as La Pampa in Peru's Madre de Dios region last week in one of the biggest of more than 60 operations the government has launched since 2014, when it made illegal the wildcat …
Back from a week in the wilds of Myanmar (more on that in Prime Meridians this coming weekend). To find a lot of action happening globally in both energy and mining. One story however, stands out in both size and strangeness. From a spot that's seen a …
Great Panther Silver Limited is a primary silver mining and exploration company. Great Panther's activities are focused on the mining of precious metals from its two wholly-owned mining operations in Mexico: the Guanajuato Mine Complex, which includes …
Equities researchers at Rodman & Renshaw assumed coverage on shares of Endeavour Silver Corp (NYSE:EXK) in a report released on Monday, AnalystRatings.Net reports. The brokerage set a “buy” rating and a $2.50 price target on the mining company's …
Recently stock market analysts have updated their consensus ratings on shares of Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (NYSE:HMY). The latest broker reports which are currently outstanding on Monday 29th of February state 0 analysts have a rating of …
Coeur Mining, Inc. (Coeur) is a silver producer. The Company has gold production and mines located in the United States, Mexico and Bolivia; a silver interest in Australia, and exploration projects in Mexico and Argentina. The Companys segments include …
St Barbara Ltd., the biggest gainer on the 44-member Bloomberg Intelligence Gold Mining Competitive Peers Index in the past year, Evolution Mining Ltd., Australia's second-biggest producer, and South Africa's Harmony Gold Mining Co. are among …
In mining news, Vedanta Ltd has won India's first-ever auction of a gold mine, a provincial government official said, as the nation opens up the sector to private companies to curb imports. … PRICES AT 0044 GMT Metal Last Change Pct chg Spot gold …
A resources company has announced plans to start drilling for copper, zinc and silver within southern Queensland's Granite Belt area this year. The exploration works would be carried out around the old Texas Silver Mine, which MRV Metals wants to revive.
India has just conducted its first auction of a gold mine: this is exactly the right way to allocate the exploration and exploitation rights of such a natural resource. This is another one of those steps along the road to India becoming the much …