First Donlin drill results in, Barrick and Novagold report

The company is also said to be mulling a number of investment projects involving a Chinese chemical company.

The founder of McEwen Mining and Goldcorp believes prices for the precious metal will reach $5,000 an ounce in a matter of years.

The unit is expected to help speed up the approval of legislation that allows the exploration and exploitation of the country’s vast lithium deposits.

The biggest banks remain bullish on oil prices, but analyst projections about global supply and demand are increasingly diverging.

They have found valuable minerals atop an underwater mountain, which is basically a huge flat-topped mound of some of the scarcest materials on Earth.

Fiore Exploration CEO, Tim Warman, talked to MINING.com's Michael McCrae about the company's Pampas El Peñón gold project in Chile

The company's Volta Grande project is posed to become the country's largest gold mine.

Permit allows Northern Dynasty to work in the area for the next 12 months, but it includes requirements for state inspections, as well as an unprecedented $2 million guarantee as back stop for exploration clean-up.

Vancouver junior is up 70% in a month after a string of positive updates from its flagship Cariboo gold project in British Columbia.