Fortune Minerals gets conditional environmental approval for Saskatchewan processing plant

Caesars Report's Thibaut Lepouttre highlights a handful of mining companies with market capitalizations attractive to larger companies looking to boost their project pipelines.

Gold and silver prices ran out of momentum during the first week of July and have been drifting lower ever since.

Faced with declining domestic production, China's top copper company — Minmetals — said earlier this year that the "only solution” was going overseas, and many are following its steps.

The world’s third-biggest gold miner said its net earnings will also benefit from weaker operating currencies in South Africa, Brazil, Australia and Argentina.

It's actually made of 494g of silver and just 6g of the precious yellow metal.

Gold has been trading inversely to equities – and, consequently, the yellow metal stands to gain much when Wall Street tumbles, an outcome that seems increasingly likely as world stock markets edge higher.

World's number two gold producer's second quarter results ticks all the boxes as it throws off $486 million in free cash in its second quarter.

In 2012, gold explorers spent a record breaking $6 billion in exploration. The outcome? Just 4 major discoveries over the following 3 years!

Gold hit a three-week low in early US trading Wednesday, but analysts believe the overall trend is upward.