Comstock Resources today tightened its grip on the Haynesville basin with a US$2.2 billion cash-and-stock deal to buy privately-held Covey Park.Robert Clarke, director, US Lower 48, at global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, said: “The deal creates a Haynesville leader with the pro-forma company having access to the three best parts of the play: Caspiana Core in Louisiana, the S...Read More
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Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.Comstock Resources today tightened its grip on the Haynesville basin with a US$2.2 billion cash-and-stock deal to buy privately-held Covey Park.Robert Clarke, director, US Lower 48, at global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenz...Read More
Comstock Resources today tightened its grip on the Haynesville basin with a US$2.2 billion cash-and-stock deal to buy privately-held Covey Park.Robert Clarke, director, US Lower 48, at global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, said: “The deal creates a Haynesville leader with the pro-forma company having access to the three best parts of the play: Caspiana Core in Louisiana, the S...Read More
Comstock Resources today tightened its grip on the Haynesville basin with a US$2.2 billion cash-and-stock deal to buy privately-held Covey Park.Robert Clarke, director, US Lower 48, at global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, said: “The deal creates a Haynesville leader with the pro-forma company having access to the three best parts of the play: Caspiana Core in Louisiana, the S...Read More
Gold surged sharply over the past week or so, nearing a major bull-market breakout! Nearly everyone was surprised by this violent awakening, which erupted suddenly as gold languished around year-to-date lows. If this dramatic rally has staying power, gold has good odds of achieving decisive new bull-market highs. That would change everything psychologically, ushering gold and its miners' sto...Read More
Lithium's next generationSPONSOREDneo lithiumHot Chili secures copper 'super hub' SPONSOREDhot chili limitedVimy ready for move to higher uranium groundSPONSOREDvimy resourcesFinally, a changed mining tech M&A landscapeSPONSOREDatricoConcern China could ban the exports of rare earths elements (REE), especially neodymium and praseodymium used to make permanent magnets, has triggered...Read More
Altech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsState copper company Codelco saw a 14.4% fall in production to 500,000t from 584,000t a year ago, with declines recorded across its portfolio of operations.The BHP-controlled Escondida also saw a 15% fall in production to 367,000t from 432,000t in the 2018 period, while Collahausi saw a 7.6% decline to 167,000t. The Los Pelambres mi...Read More
The Democratic Republic of Congo's state-owned mining company rejected allegations that there are discrepancies in its financial statements, saying it paid $263 million in tax advances over a five-year period.Congo is the world's biggest miner of cobalt, used in rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles, and Africa's main copper producer. State miner Gecamines has often faced criticism for its...Read More
A paper published in the journal Resources Policy states that bonus schemes for middle management employees in mining companies play a role in tailings dams failures.According to the research article, such compensation packages actively encourage managers to cut costs and increase production, as the material decisions that put into motion such measures lay in their hands and positive results would...Read More
Scientists at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory created ultra-low density gold, silver and copper foams to give physicists better X-ray sources to employ in experiments at the National Ignition Facility.This facility is a large laser-based inertial confinement fusion research device that uses lasers to heat and compress a small amount of hydrogen fuel with the goal of inducing nuclear...Read More
US stock markets just enjoyed their best week of the year on speculation that the Federal Reserve would once again ride to the rescue of equities and inflate asset prices by cutting rates.The S&P 500 index is sporting double digit percentage gains so far this year. Meanwhile, the S&P GSCI All Commodities index is down 14% over the past year.Apart from all things gold, Incrementum's 13th annual In...Read More
Noront Resources (TSX-V: NOT) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Aroland First Nation to advance the planning process for the development of the Eagle's Nest nickel-copper-platinum-palladium deposit in the Ring of Fire, northern Ontario.In a media statement, both parties said that the MoU contemplates Aroland becoming a shareholder of Noront. The company will issue 150,000 shares to the...Read More
In recent days the market has moved from expecting a rate cut by January 2020 to now expecting as much as three rate cuts by then. As a result both Gold and gold stocks launched higher, forming a "three white soldiers" bullish reversal pattern.Last week and in previous writings, we noted the importance of the actual rate cut for Gold and gold stocks. Their performance in both nominal and relative...Read More
Altech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsFreeport will earn up to 75% in the 462sq.km Wild Horse project that contains a distinct aerial magnetic anomaly located on the western edge of a magnetic granite pluton, about 80km south of Adelaide. Altech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsTerramin says the Wild Horse anomaly exhibits a "classic Weste...Read More
Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipLithium's next generationSPONSOREDneo lithiumHot Chili secures copper 'super hub' SPONSOREDhot chili limitedWith its environmental impact assessment approved, the holes will allow Camino to expand drilling along the Diva Trend with work expected to commence in the s...Read More
Unions at Chile's Chuquicamata copper mine expressed disappointment in state-run miner Codelco's latest contract offer on Thursday but agreed to extend negotiations in hopes of averting a strike.Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, started government-mediated talks with unions 1, 2 and 3 at Chuquicamata last week after workers rejected the company's proposal.But the unions said they were...Read More
Canada's First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) responded to Panama's President-elect Laurentino Cortizo by issuing a media release stating that the extension of the contract to operate the Cobre Panam?? mine fulfills current laws and regulations and that its team should be allowed to work without legal uncertainties.The miner's communiqu?(C) was made public a day after Cortizo said his government would...Read More
Standard Lithium Ltd. (TSX-V: SLL) / (OTCQX: STLHF) shares are caught up in a battery metals sell off, but is it warranted given recent positive developments, ongoing supply challenges in the Lithium Triangle & exciting near-term Company catalysts? Its Arkansas Project could reach commercial production by 2022, and ramp up to ~20K tonnes/yr. of Lithium Carbonate, bolting onto brine streams f...Read More
Alkane maps own path to world-class critical metals producerSPONSOREDalkane resourcesThe court will determine whether to allow a referendum to ask the question, "are you in agreement with mining exploitation in the territories of the communities in the parishes of Lita, Carolina,Read More