Articles Tagged "Gold Company News"

The Life Cycle of a Gold Mine: Rehabilitation

Once the gold reserve at a mine has been exhausted, the owner of the mine must rehabilitate the site. Rehabilitation refers to the process of returning mined land to its preexisting condition or a predetermined post-mining use.

Market Sell-off Hits Gold

Gold has consistently set price records this year, as investors flocked to gold as a shelter from the increasingly unstable global economic picture; however, this week gold performed differently from what we have come to expect. Instead of rallying, the safe haven investment plunged in unison with equities.

Gold Prices Set to Climb

The price of gold could increase above a range of $2000 per troy ounce even by the end of the year. Some analysts and observers believe fluctuations in gold prices could drive the gold market in coming weeks as traders struggle to find general consensus and global policymakers consider increasingly desperate measures to stabilize wide spread economic concern.

Northern Freegold – District Sized Opportunity in Yukon Gold Belt

Northern Freegold is controlled and operated by a technical group of Yukon locals who know the land and the communities they are working in. NFR’s Nucleus deposit contains an inferred resource of million ounces of gold at 0.87 g/t. In June 2010 NFR started a 10,000m drill program aimed at increasing the size of this deposit.

The Life Cycle of a Gold Mine: Assessment and Approval

Regardless of how valuable of a resource an exploration company discovers, the resource will never be brought to market unless the company can properly assess, and present, the total environmental and socio-economic impacts of going from buried resource- to mine, to reclaimed land.