Articles by Alan Dupont
Investing in Precious Metals: A Beginners’ Guide
The most common precious metals investments are financial instruments like shares or mutual funds and physical investments such as coins and bars. It is also possible to invest in other financial instruments like the precious …
Gold Prices: Can we see $1540 or lower?
Gold prices fell nearly $200 last week, its largest drop since September this year. The metal dropped from the high of nearly $1755 an ounce on Dec 8 to the low of $1560 an ounce …
Indochine Mining Drilling in Mt Kare, Papua New Guinea
Indochine Mining (ASX:IDC) starts the first phase of a drill program of up to 10,000 metres at its major gold/silver project, Mt Kare, in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Mt Kare is approximately 2 million ounce gold/silver …
Implats misses corporate targets, Eastern Platinum back on track
Implats Bleeding Continues
South Africa’s second largest PGM producer, Implats, has nothing positive to report. It reported 12% lower production, 27% lower refining, 10.8% higher unit costs and three deaths. Overall, production was down about 12% …
Barrick Gold appoints new President
Barrick Gold, the biggest producer of the yellow metal, appointed Gary Halverson as president of its North American business, with Mike Feehan replacing him in his previous role as head of the company’s Australia Pacific unit.
The move comes as …
Magma Metals Ltd enters JV with Mega Uranium Ltd
Magma Metals Limited (TSX:MMW)(ASX:MMW) (“Magma” or the “Company”) entered a farm-in joint venture agreement with Mega Uranium Ltd (TSX:MGA) (“Mega”) on Mega’s Greenwich Lake property, which is adjacent to Magma’s Thunder Bay North (TBN) platinum-palladium-copper-nickel (Pt-Pd-Cu-Ni) project in …
New Gold acquires Silver Quest Resources Ltd.
New Gold Inc. (“New Gold”) (TSX:NGD.to – News) (AMEX:NGD – News) and Silver Quest Resources Ltd. (“Silver Quest”) (TSX.V:SQI) announced a binding letter agreement whereby New Gold will acquire, through a plan of arrangement (the …
Miranda’s Red Canyon Project Update
Miranda Gold Corp. (“Miranda”) (TSX-V: MAD) announced that its exploration funding partner at Red Canyon, Montezuma Mines Inc. (“Montezuma”), a wholly owned subsidiary of CMQ Resources Inc. (TSX-V:NV), reports completion and receipt of all gold analyses …
Paramount Gold’s San Miguel Project reports best intercepts
. (NYSE/TSX: PZG) (Frankfurt: WKN: A0HGKQ) (“Paramount”) announced new assay results today from ongoing drilling at its 100%-owned San Miguel Project in northern Mexico. Assays from five additional drill holes on the San Miguel Vein …
Banro Corp’s Twangiza Mine Pours First Gold in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Banro Corporation (“Banro” or the “Company“) (NYSE AMEX – “BAA”; TSX – “BAA”) announced first gold production at its wholly-owned Twangiza gold mine in South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (“DRC”). Twangiza is …
