Ecuador reports tailings dam breach in Azuay province

April saw 121 financings close in the Canadian financial markets for C$522.7 million including 55 financings for gold totalling $207.3 million, some 40% of the April total.

We now see signs that reflation is weakening. What happened and what are the implications for the gold market?

The junior gold miners’ stocks suffered a serious thrashing between mid-April and early May. Relentless heavy selling blasted many back down near deep mid-December lows, leaving sentiment in tatters.

Move comes 15 months after the country’s government halted the planned revision amid opposition from mining companies and low commodity prices.

The 92-carat diamond forms the centerpiece of a necklace of cultured pearls.

An NGO based in the southern Bolívar state is calling the Venezuelan government to kill the 2016 decree that creates the Mining Arch of the Orinoco River National Development Strategic Zone.

Junior mining investor enthusiasts will be duelling it out for the big money when the next contest by Stockpools and Kitco is launched the first week of June.

The deal, worth about $400 million, will make Trevali the first pure zinc producer with operations in North and South America as well as Africa.

Cobre Panama project is now 50% complete and on track to produce 320,000 tonnes of copper in 2019, making the company one of the world’s top six producers of the red metal.