DR Congo: Is government intervention the real risk to watch?SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftMahenge the Cinderella of the graphite space?SPONSOREDblack rock miningSky is the limit for BSK at Amarillo GrandeSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumNew Energy brings experience to new dawnSPONSOREDnew energy mineralsIt is, or is almost, that time of year again where we are all required to pretend we like each other. ...Read More
Eurasian Resources Group has concluded power supply arrangements for its Frontier mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The contract was signed by the Soci?(C)t?(C) Nationale d'??lectricit?(C), the national electricity company of the Republic of Zambia; and Rawbank, a top commercial bank in the DRC.Frontier mine is a cornerstone of ERG's copper business and is situated on the DRC-Zambia border....Read More
Anglo American (LON:AAL) has increased its copper production guidance from its Chilean operations this year to 660,000 tonnes, up from a range of 630,000 to 660,000 tonnes previously anticipated, based on planned expansions at its Los Bronces and Collahuasi mines.The world's number four diversified miner has also set new targets for the next three years. It now expects to generate between 630,000...Read More
BHP, (ASX, LON, NYSE: BHP) the world's number one miner, today made an exceptionally rare public disclosure of drilling results from a very early-stage exploration program in South Australia, which is already being called by some experts "the thickest high-grade copper intersection seen in years."The mining giant identified an iron oxide, copper, gold (IOCG) mineralized system located 65 km south...Read More
* Prices rebound from Friday when hit lowest since October 2017 U.S. equity market rally boosts oil prices* Saudi Arabia pumps record amount of oil in Nov - source* Hedge funds raise U.S. crude oil net longs -CFTC (Updates with CFTC data)By Stephanie KellyNEW YORK, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose nearly 3 percent on Monday, clawing back some of last week's steep losses, but gains were capped by...Read More
Nov 26 (Reuters) - Jet Airways Ltd JET.NS , the biggest full-service carrier in India, has been under dark clouds for the past few months.While intense pricing competition, weak rupee and rising fuel costs have hurt Indian airlines like IndiGo owned by InterGlobe Aviation Ltd INGL.NS and SpiceJet Ltd SPJT.BO , Jet Airways is in a league of its own.Saddled with a debt of about 80.52 billion rupees...Read More
Nov 26 (Reuters) - Indian shares rose about 1 percent on Monday in volatile trading, led by gains in index heavyweights HDFC Bank Ltd HDBK.NS and consumer goods giants Hindustan Unilever Ltd HLL.NS and ITC Ltd ITC.NS .The benchmark BSE index .BSESN ended 1.07 percent higher at 35,354.08, while the broader NSE index .NSEI climbed 0.97 percent higher to 10,628.60.Hindustan Unilever jumped near...Read More
November 27, 2018The next Fed meet (and rate hike) is December 19, and just weeks after that, U.S. president Donald "The Golden Trumpster" Trump may be set to unleash a new round of inflationary and growth-crushing tariffs.It's not easy (to put it mildly) for American business to create new factories to replace the products made by highly productive Chinese factories.So, for 2019, most top U.S. ba...Read More
PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedThe company said the potential iron oxide-copper-gold system was 65km southeast of Olympic Dam and 45km north-east of OZ Minerals Carrapateena project.BHP drilled four diamond holes for...Read More
PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedThe company currently owns 70% of the venture but is prepared to become a minority shareholder, in order to advance the mine into construction, CEO Darren Pylot said on a conference call."It's a great project and we think getting it built in the context of a looming copper deficit is a very good value proposition for our shareholde...Read More
DR Congo: Is government intervention the real risk to watch?SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftMahenge the Cinderella of the graphite space?SPONSOREDblack rock miningSky is the limit for BSK at Amarillo GrandeSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumNew Energy brings experience to new dawnSPONSOREDnew energy mineralsThe WWF released a new report entitled ‘Getting it right in a new ocean: Bringing Sustainable Blue Ec...Read More
Clashes between tourism and mining are not rare in Peru, a country peppered with historic and touristic sites that's also the world's second-largest producer of copper, zinc and silver. But in the case of Rainbow Mountain, those in favor of conservation appear to have won out.Late Friday, the Peruvian government blocked all mining exploration licenses on Rainbow Mountain, a rising South American t...Read More
A maiden resource estimate on Eldorado Gold's (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO) Bolcana copper-gold project in Romania, about six km from the company's Certej project, has delivered 6.5 million inferred ounces of gold.The inferred resource of 381 million tonnes grading 0.53 gram gold per tonne and 0.18% copper for 6.5 million ounces of contained gold and 686,000 tonnes of copper, was based on 98 diamond drill...Read More
Pilot study for a major vehicle manufacturerCollaboration with University of Liege that produces concentrates from recovered magnetsMontreal - Geomega Resources Inc. ("G?(C)oM?(C)gA" or the "Corporation") (TSX.V: GMA) is pleased to announce that Innord Inc. ("Innord"), a private subsidiary controlled by G?(C)oM?(C)gA, has entered into a collaboration agreement with University of Liege who is condu...Read More
MEXICO CITY - Former workers of Mexican miner Grupo Mexico plan to block access to the giant Buenavista copper mine on Dec. 1 to pressure the company and the country's incoming leftist government to give them back their collective labor contracts.The planned industrial action is part of a longstanding dispute after Grupo Mexico fired the mine's workforce and reopened it in 2010, following a federa...Read More
MELBOURNE - A hive of mine exploration activity is underway in a remote corner of Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert, led by Rio Tinto Ltd , which has boosted its holdings 10-fold in the little explored Paterson province in the past year.Rio's interest in the area - flagged by its application for nearly 30 exploration licenses - has sparked a stampede into adjacent lots by other explorers, who...Read More
CAIRO - Saudi Arabia aims to raise the kingdom's mining revenues to $64 billion from $17 billion by 2030, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday.Mining vast untapped reserves of bauxite, phosphate, gold, copper and uranium is key to the Saudi Arabia's efforts to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons.Studies indicate that the level of the likely geological reserves in the kingdom exc...Read More
Canada's Capstone Mining (TSX:CS) is considering selling a portion of its large scale 70%-ownedSanto Domingo copper-iron project in Chile, as part of a strategic process kicked off today after the release of a positive technical report.The Vancouver-based company said the project, is located 50 km southwest of Codelco's El Salvador copper mine, said the report reveals that Santo Domingo has an aft...Read More
Investing.com - Bitcoin was trading at $3,679.2 by 15:42 (10:12 GMT) on the Investing.com Index on Sunday, down 20.34% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage loss since Wednesday, January 14, 2015.The move downwards pushed Bitcoin's market cap down to $63.9B, or 54.51% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Bitcoin's market cap was $241.2B.Bitcoin had traded in a r...Read More
Investing.com - This week precious metals traders will be focusing their attention on Thursday’s minutes of the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting, the dollars response to the Fed policy outlook and Friday’s looming U.S.-China trade talks.U.S. President Donald Trump is due to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 summit in Buenos Ai...Read More