Barrick gets ten more days to make formal offer for Acacia

Granting of certificate builds certainty for BC's mineral explorers and developers.

Trust and recognition before money.

Gold revenue grows while gross profit shrinks.

The plan is to announce a third-party administrator by the end of September.

Decision comes on the heels of a finished inventory of permits, which aimed to clean up the sector.

Vancouver-based company drives all-in costs down to $852/oz and also beats expectations with $1.1 billion in quarterly revenue.

Toronto-based miner has already spent $5 billion on the Chile-Argentina project first launched in 2006.

Potential problems in the horizon for Seabridge Gold's proposed gold, copper, silver and molybdenum mine in northern British Columbia, just 30 km from the Alaska border.

Interest rates could rise sooner rather than later.