Plenty of junior miners have money in the till — at least, enough to last them for a year or two. But because investor sentiment has been extraordinarily bearish, deals that might have been available six months or a year ago are no longer on the table.
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Junior miners, small mining companies still in the exploration or early production stages of mine development, are having an increasingly hard time raising sufficient funds to get their mines into production.
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Some people may look at the stock market and see economic recovery. Eric Sprott of Sprott Asset Management and Sprott Money looks at myriad other economic indicators and sees an economy still in decline.
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Oil markets don’t seem to be reacting this morning to the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, with the price of crude increasing only slightly on Wednesday.
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A legal dispute between the Kyrgyzstan government and Centerra Gold has entered a decisive stage for both sides after the Kyrgyz parliament instructed the government either to renegotiate a 2009 deal with the Canadian mining company.
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U.S. silver miner Hecla Mining Co. will buy Aurizon Mines Ltd for about C$796 million ($774 million), topping an unsuccessful bid by the Canadian company’s largest shareholder.
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The gold-mining industry, which has underperformed the precious metal’s price for each of the past six years, is pledging to report costs more accurately as part of its efforts to win back investor confidence.
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If mineral exploration, like real estate, is all about location, then Gold Standard Ventures Corp. would appear to own the equivalent of a penthouse on Park Avenue. Its flagship gold project sits in Nevada’s productive Carlin Trend,
Gold Standard sitting pretty in Nevada Read More »
An agreement signed by the government of Venezuela and the Chinese state-owned company Citic Group for prospecting and mapping the country’s mining reserves is being challenged.
China maps Venezuela’s mining resources Read More »
More than half a century after the state’s big mining operations closed there is renewed interest in California gold. Its value has shot through the roof and so has the momentum to bring back mining operations.
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