BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali is forecasting a slight recovery in industrial gold output in 2025 on the assumption that mining giant Barrick Gold ( GOLD ) will resume operations after a months-long standoff with the government, a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday showed. Production is expected to reach 54.7 metric tons of gold, according to the document from the...

09:33 AM EDT, 03/26/2025 (MT Newswires) -- B. Riley Financial ( RILY ) said Wednesday morning it has negotiated an exchange agreement with an institutional investor that is expected to reduce the company's outstanding debt by around $35 million. Under terms of the private agreement, the unnamed investor agreed to swap about $123 million in existing senior notes, consisting of...

09:31 AM EDT, 03/26/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Bank of Nova Scotia ( BNS ) named Pablo Elek to take over at its Mexican unit as the Canadian bank reworks its operations to focus on North America, Bloomberg News is reporting Wednesday. Elek, who has been serving as a top executive at HSBC Holdings Plc's Mexico unit for the last four...

LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order on boosting domestic minerals production is intended to blast a path through the thicket of mine permitting in the United States. It takes an average of nearly 29 years for a new mine to go from discovery to production in the United States, the second-longest lead time in the...