Mexican president says won’t cancel mining concessions, or grant new ones

Barrick Gold has reduced its debt load, reshuffle management and sold several assets.

Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses effects of the Bank of Japan's actions on the U.S. dollar, silver and gold.

Canada’s largest diversified miner logged a 38% increased in overall profit for the first quarter of the year.

The world's largest gold producer, reported a quarterly loss, compared with a year-earlier profit, as asset sales impacted production and realized gold prices fell.

Despite the dilemmas in recent years, which continue to persist, emerging trends in the mining industry may offer solutions — or at least opportunities for improvement industry-wide.

Most shareholders hope that Catherine Raw persuades management to stop prizing output over profitability and, instead, place more emphasis on investors’ returns.

"It is not clear at this time that the current prices are either sustainable or sufficient".

It was just over a year ago that Tony Simon, President of Seguro Consulting, brought to our attention the initial problem of the zombie miners (definition referred to mining exploration companies that had negative working capital and therefore did not meet the Continuous Listing Requirements (CLR) for the TSX and TSX-V stock exchanges).

Speculators and investors alike are returning as awareness spreads of how radically undervalued silver is compared to prevailing gold prices.