Goldcorp News

WEST Vancouver-Sea to Sky representative Joan McIntyre was the only North Shore MLA to declare a gift last year on recently released public disclosure statements.

In 1990, McEwen began running Goldcorp , with a market cap at the time of $50 million, and turned it into a gold major with a market cap of $8 billion when he left in 2004.

The Ontario Securities Commission, which has been flexing its muscles under chair Howard Wetston, is using a broad general power to take on prominent Canadian mining executive Ian Telfer.

Canadian securities regulators on Tuesday implicated mining executive Ian Telfer in an alleged insider trading scheme, suggesting he helped the main defendant in the case disguise her illegal trading activities.

On Tuesday, gold A futures for April delivery jumped $23.50 to settle at $1,748.40 per ounce, while silver A futures increased 44 cents to close at $33.19. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave his testimony about the economy before Congress today.A He renewed his pledge to protect the U.S. economy from the European financial crisis.A Bernanke ... (more)

Premier Gold Mines announced that it has entered into agreements to acquire 100% interest in two key patented claim groups located on the East Bay Ultramafic Trend in Red Lake, Canada.A The claim groups are located proximal to the Footwall Zone on the East Bay Project, one of two active joint ventures Premier Gold Mines has with Red Lake Gold Mines ... (more)

Rob McEwen, the near-billionaire nationalist, philanthropist, libertarian, gold-loving, regulation-hating metals magnate, is as steamed as the plate of tagliatelle pasta sitting in front of him.

ProShares Ultra DJ-UBS Natural Gas spiked 13.14% on Thursday, and it closed at $13.78. Natural gas traded higher as the Energy Information Administration reported that natural gas supplies decreased this week in the US.

Goldcorp Inc, Canada's No. 2 gold miner, said Guatemala raised the royalty on precious metals by 3 percent, in addition to the royalty mandated by the Central American country's mining law.

Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3X Shares spiked 18.44% on Wednesday, and it closed at $23.38. In the space, Barrick Gold Corporation jumped 6.44%, and Goldcorp Inc.

Direxion Daily Gold Miners Bull 3X Shares dropped 6.67% on Tuesday as Barrick Gold Corporation lost 3.13%, and Goldcorp Inc.

Rob McEwen, the Canadian investor who founded the world's second-largest gold producer, is putting his name on the line with his latest precious-metal venture, aiming to build his McEwen Mining into an S&P 500 company within a few years.

January 24, 2012 Annie Zhang, an analyst with Toronto-based investment bank Octagon Capital, is expecting some good stories to come out of Canada and Argentina this year.

Gold. The very word conjures up images of opulence and feelings of comfort and joy.

Gold prices topped out in the third quarter of 2011 above $1,900 per ounce. While prices have fallen nearly 20% since then, any sign of instability, economic or political, will cause gold costs to rise.