Barrick Gold News

Barrick Gold Corp said on Thursday it submitted a formal offer to buy Cadence Energy Inc for C$410 million as it looks for ways to mitigate the rising energy costs.

Barrick Gold Corp.'s Greg Wilkins, who has been on medical leave since March, resigned as president and chief executive on Friday and was named executive vice-chairman of the gold miner.

Barrick Gold Corp. has raised its takeover bid for Cadence Energy Inc. by 75 cents per share and the board of the Calgary oil and gas company has endorsed the $6.75-per-share proposal.

Soaring oil prices will push Canada's inflation higher until it peaks at 4.3 percent in early 2009, the Bank of Canada said on Thursday, while this year's second-quarter economic growth is expected to come in ...

The idea is so wonderfully simple, it seems incredible in retrospect that it took this long for a mining company to take the oil bull by the horns.

Record oil and gas prices, along with a faltering U.S. economy and weakening dollar, have helped to move the price of gold and other precious metals higher over the past year.

Barrick Gold Corp's move to cut its oil bill by buying a small oil producer suggests a radical shift in thinking for miners facing soaring costs, and for junior energy companies it may present a whole new ...

Seeking to cut its energy costs, Barrick Gold Corp. said Monday it has launched a proposal for a $354-million takeover bid for Cadence Energy Ltd., topping a $300-million offer from Daylight Resources Trust.

AMEX:ROY TSX:IRC DENVER, CO, July 14 /CNW Telbec/ - International Royalty Corporation today announced the closing of the Australian royalties from IRC's December 2007 acquisition of the Rio Tinto royalty ...

Barrick Gold founder Peter Munk, centre, celebrates the company's listing on the New York Stock Exchange in 1987.

CALGARY, July 14 /CNW/ - Cadence Energy Ltd. announces today that it has received an unsolicited conditional acquisition proposal to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Cadence at a cash ...

Canadian stocks fell, pushing the main stock index to its longest weekly losing streak in six years, as finance shares led by Bank of Nova Scotia slid on concern that fallout from the U.S. mortgage crisis is ...

Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange : Bombardier Inc.

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Houston - The dollar gained Monday as world leaders met in Japan for the G-8 Summit which caused gold stocks and gold futures to tumble, accept on the AMEX, where a handful of gold exploration companies gained.

Citigroup on Tuesday upped its forecasts for copper and metallurgical coal and also increased earnings-per-share estimates for mining companies Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold , Teck Cominco , Barrick Gold ...

TSX 60 GAINERS Fording Canadian Coal Trust FDG.U +107.0% Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan POT +50.6% Agrium Inc.

Gold prices rose $2 Wednesday to close at $946, their highest level in 10 weeks.

Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped, indicating the 30-stock index will extend its biggest June decline since 1930, as higher oil prices sent shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.