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Great Panther Silver posted a higher third-quarter net profit, and the Canadian miner, which operates mainly in Mexico, expects output in the fourth quarter to rise 14 percent over the current period.
Rising Chinese purchases of platinum jewelry will boost global demand for the metal to a two-year high in 2011, a British consultancy said Tuesday.
Union workers at Freeport Indonesia are extending their strike into a third month, keeping production and exports halted from the world's second biggest copper mine.
China's autocatalyst palladium demand growth is expected to slow as the auto sector cuts back on buyer incentives, refiner Johnson Matthey said on Tuesday.
Gold prices fell for a second day Tuesday on growing evidence that Europe's two-year sovereign debt crisis is spreading into the continent's core economies.
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Goldcorp said on Monday that the Quebec government has given the green light to its Eleonore project, allowing Canada's second largest gold producer to start full construction at the mine in Northern Quebec.
Professional skier Jamie Pierre, full name: Matthew Jamie Pierre, died Sunday afternoon after he was swept off a rocky cliff by an avalanche he triggered dropping into a steep northwest facing slope while he and a friend were snowboarding at Utah's Snowbird Ski Resort, according to sources.
Gold closed slightly lower Monday as resurgent worries about Europe's finances drove investors to sell stocks and buy dollar-denominated assets, not including gold.
Sudan could see the next Arab revolution because anger is rising over an economic crisis and government repression worse than in Egypt before the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, an opposition leader said on Monday.
Ivanhoe Mines said on Monday that construction at its Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia will be 70 percent complete by the end of 2011, with commercial production seen in the first half of 2013.
Shares of gold and silver mining companies were down Monday, falling more than the broader stock market or the price of the precious metals themselves.
Inflation has raised the cost of a gold mine in northeastern Ontario by 13 percent, Detour Gold Corp. said Monday.
Nevsun Resources Ltd posted a quarterly profit as gold production at its Bisha gold mine in Eritrea rose sequentially.
Retail investors are keeping a floor on prices for gold, silver and platinum with their increasing purchases of shares of exchange-traded products (ETPs) backed by precious metals.
Brigus Gold Corp. swung to a profit in the third quarter as higher prices offset lower production, the Halifax, Nova Scotia-based miner said Monday.
Lonmin, the world's third-largest platinum producer, beat expectations with a 59 percent jump in full-year earnings, even though a strike at its Karee operations drove up unit costs and forced the miner to cut its output target.
Harmony Gold , South Africa's third-largest gold producer, said on Monday it had received a number of enquiries and proposals from parties interested in acquiring its assets in Papua New Guinea, but it was not ready to sell.
Gold prices fell Monday on tentative optimism the sovereign debts of Italy and Greece can be managed without crashing Europe's banking system.
