VANCOUVER – Thanks to the diligent work of MINING.com and IntelligenceMine, we now have a list of the world’s largest mining companies by capitalization (reported in U.S. dollars). “At the end of the first quarter this year the top 50…
VANCOUVER – Silver Wheaton credited a record 109,200 oz of gold to its account in the third quarter of 2016. For the first nine months of the year, the total is more than 240,000 oz. Gold sales were also at a…
VANCOUVER — Industry stalwart Silver Wheaton (TSX: SLW; NYSE: SLW) has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the past decade. The pioneer of providing stream financing has mobilized over US$8 billion in capital in 12 years. It now holds interests in 22 operating mines…
Silver Wheaton (TSX: SLW; NYSE: SLW) is offering Vale (NYSE: VALE) US$800 million to buy another 25% gold stream from the miner’s Salobo copper-gold mine in Brazil, pushing up its annual gold production. Vancouver-based Silver Wheaton already has a 50% gold stream on…
PERU – A subsidiary of Vancouver-based Silver Wheaton Corp. has agreed to purchase 100% of the silver production and 25% of the gold production from the Cotabambas advanced copper-gold-silver-molybdenum project. The project is wholly owned by Panoro Minerals, also headquartered…
PERU – Silver Wheaton and Panoro Minerals, both of Vancouver, have struck a US$140-million deal covering silver and a portion of the gold streams from Panoro’s Cotabambas copper-gold mine in the Cuzco region. The project is at the advanced exploration…
VANCOUVER — As traditional forms of equity and debt finance have become untenable for mining companies, there’s been a rise in stream agreements, which typically offer miners access to cash for a percentage of future by-product metal production. And according to…
VANCOUVER – Silver Wheaton Corp. has arranged a streaming agreement with a subsidiary of Glencore to acquire silver from the Antamina copper mine in which Glencore has a 33.75% interest. The mine, located in the Andes Mountains 270 km north…
Canadian streaming company Silver Wheaton (TSX: SLW; NYSE: SLW) posted record quarterly production of nearly 11 million silver equivalent ounces in the three months ended June 30, and for the first time ever, notched quarterly sales…
VANCOUVER — The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has taken the first shot in what is likely to be a protracted legal battle with streaming company Silver Wheaton (TSX: SLW; NYSE: SLW), and the results could affect the company’s…
TORONTO – Silver Wheaton has extended the deadline of the silver streaming agreement with Barrick Gold relating to the Pascua-Lama gold mine that sits across the border of Chile and Argentina.
This is the time of year we at CMJ pause to examine how Canada’s mining companies performed during the previous year. We start by poring through year-end 2013 results from twice as many companies as will make the list in an effort not to…