The Castle mine was one of the highest grade silver-cobalt producers in the historic Cobalt camp in Northern Ontario. (Image: Canada Cobalt Works) Canada Cobalt Works (CVE: CCW) says it has intersected multiple high grade cobalt and silver intercepts during phase one drilling on the first level of the Castle mine. The mine is located […]
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Trade truce lights fire under mining stocks
Source: Bloomberg Relief that an escalation in the trade war between the US and China has been avoided – at least for now – sparked a huge rally in mining stocks on Monday. Gold closed at a one-month high just shy of $1,240 an ounce, iron ore continued to climb from recent lows above $66 […]
Kootenay Silver buys high-grade silver project in Mexico
Kootenay Silver (TSXV: KTN) announced that its wholly-owned Mexican subsidiary entered into an option agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the Columba silver project, which hosts a past-producing mine and is located in the northwestern state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Under the terms of the agreement, Kootenay Silver can acquire a 100% ownership in the […]
Pan American Silver buys Tahoe Resources for $1.07 billion
Canada’s Pan American Silver (TSX:PAA) (NASDAQ:PAAS) is buying precious metal miner Tahoe Resources (TSX:THO) (NYSE:TAHO) for $1.07 billion in cash and stock, creating one of the world’s largest silver producers. Pan American, already the world’s second-largest primary silver miner, will effectively double its silver reserves of the precious metal with the acquisition, as Reno, Nevada-based Tahoe Resources owns […]