PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25Construction had crossed the 20% mark, he told Mining Journal in Vancouver. "Our 30-strong team is now fully mobilised to either Reno or Yerrington (the host town).Read More
PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25The company said the slippage occurred in the early hours of January 23, on the slope of the northern zone of the openpit mine at the mining hydrometallurgical complex in the Seville province.It said the slippage had not caused harm to any people, nor had an...Read More
Likely Shadary win in DR Congo threatens further squeeze on miners' profitsSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesRhyolite Ridge PFS beats expectationsSPONSOREDioneerElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25The fever started to grip with Barrick Gold's much-praised acquisition of Randgold Resources (read: Mark Bri...Read More
Lucara sells large diamonds for US$32.5mPrecious stonesLikely Shadary win in DR Congo threatens further squeeze on miners' profitsSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesRhyolite Ridge PFS beats expectationsSPONSOREDioneerLast year saw rising US interest rates (both bond yields and the US Fed funds) and a strong US dollar, coupled with escalating t...Read More
Likely Shadary win in DR Congo threatens further squeeze on miners' profitsSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesRhyolite Ridge PFS beats expectationsSPONSOREDioneerElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25Australia's minister for resources asked a committee of mining industry stakeholders in March 2018 to "ident...Read More
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.The success of China's economic reform programme will have a strong influence on the metals market this year. On balance, fundamentals have improved, but geo-political concerns continue to dog the market and whispers of economic slowd...Read More
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.The success of China's economic reform programme will have a strong influence on the metals market this year. On balance, fundamentals have improved, but geo-political concerns continue to dog the market and whispers of economic slowd...Read More
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.The success of China's economic reform programme will have a strong influence on the metals market this year. On balance, fundamentals have improved, but geo-political concerns continue to dog the market and whispers of economic slowd...Read More
Canada's First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) has scrapped plans to lay off 2,500 workers in Zambia over an increase in mining taxes, and has committed to extend talks with the southern African nation's government over the issue.The Toronto-based said last month it had exhausted all other avenues of cost reduction, adding the job cuts would be implemented in phases during the first three months of 2019...Read More
Chilean miner Antofagasta Plc. (LON:ANTO) ended 2018 on a very high note as it produced a record amount of copper in the final quarter of the year, which led it to post annual output at the higher end of its forecast.The company, majority-owned by Chile's Luksic family, one of the country's wealthiest, churned out 220,000 tonnes of the red metal in the three months to December, up 16% from the pr...Read More
Last week we discussed the difference between a rally and bull market. Gold stocks have been in a rally. That rally is now over as gold stocks peaked at their 400-day moving averages days ago and sliced through their 200-day moving averages Friday.Take a look at the charts of any gold stock index (GDX, GDXJ, HUI) and it's clear they are in a downtrend. Go back two to three years. You'll see lo...Read More
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.The Wood Mackenzie report Global trends: what to look for in 2019 looks at emerging business models that ensure global mining companies remain at the forefront of the energy transition. Find out why electrification and autom...Read More
PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25It produced a record 220,000 tonnes of copper in the December quarter, up 24% year-on-year, bringing the full-year total to 725,300t, a 3% increase from 2017 and at the top end of its revised guidanceRead More
Likely Shadary win in DR Congo threatens further squeeze on miners' profitsSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesRhyolite Ridge PFS beats expectationsSPONSOREDioneerElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25In the absence of a TARDIS, time, as far as most physicists have ever been able to deduce, only moves forwar...Read More
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.The Wood Mackenzie report Global trends: what to look for in 2019 looks at emerging business models that ensure global mining companies remain at the forefront of the energy transition. Find out why electrification and autom...Read More
As we start 2019, the copper market is faced with the prospects of softer demand growth, given the macro economic outlook, constrained mine supply growth, ongoing disruptions at smelters, additional uncertainly around changes to Chinese policies towards copper scrap imports and low visible exchange stocks. All of these factors will no doubt lead to another year of volatile prices. However, in the...Read More
A global energy transition that's already underway would be good for B.C.'s exploration and mining industry.The province, after all, is geologically blessed with an abundance of many of the raw materials needed for wind turbines, solar power and electric vehicles.But the opportunity posed by decarbonization and the low-carbon economy is a boat that B.C. has already missed, according to one metals...Read More
South Africa-based explosives leader BME will be showcasing its African presence, expertise and technology at the 2019 Investing in African Mining Indaba from February 4th to 7th in Cape Town; it will also highlight its strengthened presence in West Africa, which is poised to become one of the top five gold-producing regions in the world."The mood is even more buoyant than it has been in previous...Read More
MELBOURNE - Australian cobalt developer Jervois Mining said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy a Canadian cobalt explorer with operations in Uganda, as the hunt for quality mines in the battery materials sector gains pace.Jervois, which is backed by ex-Glencore executives, is offering one of its shares for every share in M2 Cobalt, valuing the Canadian company at C$16.6 million ($12.5 million), a 4.5...Read More
SANTIAGO - The union of supervisors at state miner Codelco's Gabriela Mistral mine in northern Chile has rejected the company's final offer for a new collective labor agreement, raising the specter of a strike in the coming days, the union president told Reuters on Tuesday.The union said Codelco, the world's top copper miner, failed to satisfy its demands for a signing bonus, and that the company...Read More