A tenth of the world’s tailing dams have had stability issues

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.

Confidence returns to mining sector as announced capital outlays surge to $108 billion – greenfield project spending up three-fold in first quarter.

Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger examines silver's recent moves upward.

The gold and copper miner didn’t specified where the alleged misconduct took place.

Increasing interest from hedge funds and Chinese buyers are driven the metal to its biggest monthly rise since January 2015.

All of us follow COMEX in New York and assess the ‘net speculative long position’ there, so as to see the actual weight of opinion on the gold price.