It's the second time in a year Vale has had to suspend Viga's concentration plant.It estimated impact of the latest temporary stoppage was about 11,000 tons of iron ore fines per day.Vale said the B7 dam was suspended on September 24 in compliance with a court decision regarding a public civil action filed by the municipality of Jeceaba.It said as a result, Viga's concentration plant was also susp...Read More
The markets continue to remain volatile due to uncertainties surrounding COVID-19. Several countries in Europe have reported an increase in the number of daily coronavirus cases. There is a chance that fears of a dreaded second wave of infections might come true and impact Canadians as well.This does not bode well for the stock market, which is already trading at a premium, according to the Warren...Read More
We are undergoing somewhat uncertain economic times right now. With one market crash behind us — and one more on the horizon — financial experts are still debating whether the typical definition of a recession applies to Canada right now or if we need to redefine it because of pandemic’s disruptions. Some optimists are even discarding the warnings signs that are indicating anothe...Read More
Gold has had an incredible run in 2020 and even dating back to 2019. There has been a massive amount of uncertainty in markets, so naturally, a safe-haven asset like gold stocks will see an increase in demand.This year, however, the economic environment got even more accommodating for gold. With interest rates so low and massive amounts of cash added to the U.S. money supply, the intrinsic value o...Read More
The Sao Miguel Paulista refinery is costing Jervois $22 million in staged payments between now and mid-2023, and has a stated production capacity of 25,000t of nickel and 2000t of cobalt.Read More
Housing in the United States is about to launch in price and I have all the charts to prove it.To understand home real estate, you have to know that prices are driven by two things: interest rates and demographics.According to the Bank of England, we are experiencing the lowest interest rates in 5,000 years!That's a bit esoteric as we aren't building in Rome, but I recently saw a 15-year mortgage...Read More
Western Atlas Resources Inc. (TSXV: WA) is currently exploring its 100% owned, Meadowbank project, strategically positioned along trend and immediately adjacent to Agnico Eagle's Meadowbank and Amaruq producing gold mines in Nunavut, Canada. Western Atlas' Meadowbank Project is fully permitted for exploration, inclusive of drilling. We learned from Fabio Capponi, who is CEO and Director of Western...Read More
Large scale property acquisitions peaked in 2016-2017 led by China Molybdenum's purchase of the Tenke Fungurume mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.China Molybdenum bought Freeport-McMoRan's (NYSE: FCX) 56% stake in the copper-cobalt mine in November 2016 and picked up Lundin Mining's (TSX: LUN) 24% interest in April 2017 for a total consideration of $3.8 billion, based on data from Minin...Read More
Solaris Resources (TSXV: SLS) has reported assay results for the second and third drill holes completed as part of a 40,000-metre drill program at its Warinzta project in southeastern Ecuador. The program is the first drill campaign in 20 years at the 268-sq.-km project.Hole SLS-02 hit 660 metres of 0.97% copper-equivalent (0.79% copper, 0.03% molybdenum, and 0.1 gram gold per tonne) starting at s...Read More
Lion Battery Technologies is pushing forward with plans to develop lithium-ion batteries that use platinum and palladium to enhance battery performance.The company was formed as a joint venture between Platinum Group Metals (TSX: PTM; NYSE: PLG) and Anglo American Platinum (US-OTC: ANGPY), the world's largest producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), and aims to accelerate the development of n...Read More
This week's episode features DeepGreen Metals chairman and CEO Gerard Barron, who discusses the merits of deep-sea mining as an environmentally-friendly method of resource extraction. Gerard talks about his previous investment in Nautilus Minerals, the strategy behind mining polymetallic nodules, and what it's like to deal with the International Seabed Authority and the United Nations on mining pr...Read More
The most recent drill results from Canadian Palladium's (CNSX: BULL; US-OTC: DCNNF) 9.9-sq.-km East Bull property, 90 km west of Sudbury, Ont., returned broad intercepts of near-surface palladium mineralization from an area down-dip of the current resource.The preliminary results (which exclude rhodium values) are "the widest intervals of palladium mineralization reported to date at East Bull," th...Read More
GR Silver Mining (TSXV: GRSL; US-OTC: GRSLF) has discovered high-grade polymetallic disseminated and massive sulphide-rich mineralization during initial underground channel sampling on the lower level of the historic Plomosas mine at its Plomosas silver project in Mexico's Sinaloa state.GR Silver says assay results from one of the saw channel samples returned 16 metres of 90 grams silver per tonne...Read More
Jervois Mining (TSXV: JRV; US-OTC: JRVMF) is buying a nickel and cobalt refinery in Brazil from Companhia Brasileira de Alum?-nio for 125 million reals (US$22.1 million) in an effort to transform the company into a producer and refiner of battery metals.The miner said the S??o Miguel Paulista refinery in S??o Paulo had a production capacity of 25,000 tonnes per year nickel and 2,000 tonnes per yea...Read More
Tesla recharges the global battery industry but simplistic presentation causes chaosBattery-metal explorers and producers ought to coin a new (transitive) verb; "to Musk" is to confuse a science that is already complicated. Lithium developers, in particular, have been 'musked' since Tesla's Battery Day on Sept. 22.As already reported in The Northern Miner, there has been an incredibly diverse resp...Read More
Authorities in Queensland have granted Pembroke Resources a mining lease for its A$1 billion (US$710 million) Olive Downs mine, which is poised to become the state's third-largest coal operation.The mine, 40 km south of Moranbah in the Bowen Basin, will have a productive life of 80 years and will create 1,000 jobs, according to Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland's premier and trade minister.Core co...Read More
Raymond James has raised its average silver price forecasts for 2021 to US$25 per oz., up 37.9% from its previous estimate, and to US$22.50 per oz. in 2022, a 25% increase.For the remainder of this year, the financial services firm forecasts an average silver price of US$25 per oz. in the third quarter and US$26 per oz. in the fourth quarter, for a full-year average of US$21.07 per ounce."Our pric...Read More
For years upon years, a handful of traders knew something fishy was going on in the futures market.Now, with the biggest penalty ever for this kind of illegal activity just announced, we're finally getting an idea of the scale of it, and it is shocking.JP Morgan is going to pay $920 million and is admitting wrongdoing for tens of trillions of dollars' worth of transactions, which number over 50,00...Read More
In this interview fund manager Will Thomson walks through his investment rationale for investing in Lumina Gold Corp.Read More
Rio Silver Inc. (TSXV:RYO) wishes to confirm that the company's mRead full newsRead More