Junior explorer McPhersons Resources is hoping to exploit the strong silver price to develop a mine on the southern doorstep to Australia's historic gold mining capital of Kalgoorlie.
The company expects the Don Mario upper mineralized zone at its gold-silver-copper mine in Bolivia to produce 12,500 gold ounces and 500,000 silver ounces, up from its earlier forecast.
Marathon Gold and Mountain Lake Resources hinted at resource growth with a new series of high-grade drilling results from the Leprechaun deposit in Newfoundland.
A major gold producer - Gold Fields - and a small Canadian junior - Bear Lake - team up in one of the world's major gold belts - the Abitibi greenstones.
A female trader has been sentenced to death in China's Zhejiang province for defrauding investors out of around US$15 million after losing their money through speculation in gold and futures.
The turnaround in precious metals prices and shares has been slower in coming than expected. Jordan Roy-Byrne discusses how junior gold and silver miners are building for a rebound in this interview with the Gold Report.
Negotiations between protesting miners and regional authorities resulted in an agreement to create a high-level commission to investigate the continued closure of the La Oroya mining complex in Peru.
Physical iron ore traders say they don't foresee a rush of buying from Chinese steel mills tomorrow when the market reopens after a three-day break, with a blurry demand outlook capping steel prices.
Environmental NGOs, an Indian tribe, and fishing groups have sued to block California Department of Fish and Wildlife regulations that would permit dredge mining in the Golden State in 2016.
With experts saying zinc could be in deficit by 2017 if not earlier, miners from Australia to Africa to the European Union are racing against time to attract investment in new projects.
With the government's postponing indefinitely its proposal to bring non-branded gold jewellery under the excise duty net, jewellers have started making a tentative move to re-open shutters.
