Mining Stocks Articles

Getchell Gold Corp. Continuing to Advance Gold Assets in Nevada

Mon Mar 30 14:06:36 2020 / Staff reporter

Getchell Gold Corp. announced that its near term strategy to advance its assets is not impacted by the COVID-19 Corona virus.Read full newsRead More

Emgold Completes Acquisition of New York Canyon Property, NV from Searchlight

Mon Mar 30 14:00:10 2020 / Emgold Mining Corp.

Emgold has completed the acquisition of 100% ownership of 21 patented and 60 unpatented mineral claims of the New York Canyon Property.Read full newsRead More

Silver Viper Continues to Expand El Rubi Zone, Provides Operations Update

Mon Mar 30 13:51:29 2020 / Staff reporter

Best results include 0.5m core length grading 1584g/t silver and 5.56g/t gold from hole LV20-219Read full newsRead More

Siyata Mobile to Webcast Live at VirtualInvestorConferences.com April 2nd

March 30, 2020 08:18:13 / Staff reporter

MONTR??AL, March 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - Siyata Mobile Inc. (TSX-V:SIM / OTCQX:SYATF), based in Montr?(C)al, Canada, focused on push-to-talk over cellular communications, today announced that Arlen Hansen, Investor Relations, will present live at VirtualInvestorConferences.com on April 2nd.DATE: Thursday, April 2ndTIME: 11:30 AM ETLINK: https://tinyurl.com/April2TechVICThis will be a liv...Read More

Pandemic, economic woes spread

30 March 2020 / Staff reporter

There were 63,159 new confirmed cases of the virus yesterday, taking the global tally to 634,835 people, according to the World Health Organisation.The number of deaths increased by 3,464 to 29,957.The oil price has tumbled towards US$20 per barrel while gold is worth about US$1,630 an ounce on the spot market."In China, workers are returning to factories just to be told about delayed or cancelled...Read More

Market Crash: Should You Buy Gold Stocks?

March 30, 2020 / Daniel Da Costa

Over the last few weeks, as stocks have been declining rapidly, gold stocks have been extremely volatile — sometimes moving with the markets and other times moving directly opposite to it. Clearly, investors can’t figure out what’s happening.There’s still plenty of fear in markets, and gold tends to be a safe haven asset. However, up until now, the most in demand asset has...Read More

First batch of rapid test kits for covid-19 arrives in Brazil

2020-03-30 / MINING.COM

Rapid test kits for the new coronavirus arrived in Sao Paulo (Image from Vale). The first batch of the 5 million rapid test kits for coronavirus, acquired by Vale, arrived in Brazil on Monday. The shipment of 500 thousand units, coming from China, arrived at Guarulhos International Airport. The remaining 4.5 million units will be delivered by the supplier throughout April.The test kits - produced...Read More

First Cobalt produces battery-grade cobalt sulphate

2020-03-30 / MINING.COM

First Cobalt (No.24 on PwC's list of juniors) owns the only fully permitted cobalt refinery capable of producing battery grade material in North America. Credit: First Cobalt Corp For the second time, First Cobalt announced that it has produced battery-grade cobalt sulphate, highlighting the ability of the flowsheet at its hydrometallugical refinery to treat different feedstocks.The latest prod...Read More

TMAC releases Hope Bay PFS with new 4,000 t/d plant scenario

2020-03-30 / MINING.COM

TMAC's Hope Bay mine. TMAC Resources has released key results from a prefeasibility study completed for its wholly owned Hope Bay property in Nunavut, which includes an operating mine.Last year, Hope Bay produced 139,510 oz. of gold; with release of its fourth quarter operating results in January, the company announced that it initiated a strategic review process to explore alternatives to max...Read More

Wireless sensors enable automated machine monitoring

2020-03-30 / MINING.COM

SKF, a company which offers solutions for the bearing business, has released a compact and cost-effective vibration and temperature sensor, which monitors the condition of rotating parts on heavy machinery. Designed mainly for use as part of a SKF rotating equipment performance (REP) solution, the SKF Enlight Collect IMx-1 enables customers to reduce unplanned downtime as well as maintenance costs...Read More

Argonaut and Alio announce gold-focused merger

2020-03-30 / MINING.COM

Cerro del Gallo project. Image by Argonaut Gold. Canadian producers Argonaut Gold and Alio Gold have entered into an agreement for an all-share merger with Argonaut acquiring Alio to create a diversified intermediate company with output of over 235,000 gold-equivalent ounces annually.With a share exchange ratio of 0.67 Argonaut common shares for each Alio common share, Argonaut and Alio share...Read More

Red 5 equity raising oversubscribed

30 March 2020 / Staff reporter

New and existing domestic and offshore institutional investors participated in the two-tranche placement of 694 million shares, which was conducted at 18c per share, a 23.Read More

Boliden halts production at Tara

30 March 2020 / Staff reporter

The company said it was evaluating how to ensure supply of concentrate to its zinc smelters following the loss of volumes from Tara, Europe's largest zinc mine.Canadian bank BMO forecast Tara would produce about 135,000 tonnes of zinc in concentrate in 2020, representing 45% of Boliden's total zinc production this year.BMO said the 14-day shutdown would have "relatively limited impact on overall p...Read More

Namibia suspends mining operations due to COVID-19

30 March 2020 / Staff reporter

Namibia's mining sector is centred around uranium, with the Rossing and Husab mines accounting for more than 10% of global supply.China-backed Rossing Uranium, previously controlled by Rio Tinto, said it would stop normal operations on Saturday "and enter a period of minimal mining operations", with critical maintenance work to continue.Other assets of significance include B2Gold's Otjikoto mine,...Read More

Gold Price Volatility Peaks

March 30, 2020 / Luke Burgess

Gold is a very special metal.It has properties that make it useful as a natural money.It's exceptionally malleable and one of the only natural-colored metals, making it ideal for jewelry and decoration.It has great electrical conductivity, it's biocompatible with humans, it has catalytic properties, and it's completely resistant to natural corrosion - gold will never naturally oxidize or deteriora...Read More

Argonaut Gold to merge with Alio Gold in all-share deal

March 30, 2020 / Trish Saywell

Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR) and Alio Gold (TSX: ALO; NYSE-A: ALO) announced a friendly all-share at-market merger that will create a larger company with a production base of over 235,000 gold-equivalent oz. this year.Under a definitive agreement approved by the boards of both companies, each Alio common share will be exchanged for 0.67 of an Argonaut common share, giving Argonaut and Alio shareholders...Read More

TMAC releases Hope Bay study

March 30, 2020 / Canadian Mining Journal staff

TMAC Resources (TSX: TMR) has released key results from a prefeasibility study completed for its wholly owned Hope Bay gold project in Nunavut.This latest study envisions a new 4,000 tonne per day plant to replace the current 2,000 tonne per day facility by 2024. With total capital costs for the expansion estimated at $683 million, including $184 million for a new conventional processing plant, th...Read More

Premier offers US$205M for Centerra's stake in Greenstone Gold Mines

March 30, 2020 / Northern Miner Staff

Premier Gold Mines (TSX: PG; US-OTC: PIRGF) is offering to purchase the remaining 50% interest it doesn't already own in the Greenstone Gold Mines Partnership (GGM) from Centerra Gold (TSX: CG) for US$205 million.GGM's principal asset is the Hardrock gold project (formerly known as the Trans-Canada property), in northwestern Ontario, 275 km northeast of Thunder Bay.The acquiring party, at the opti...Read More

Seabridge to acquire 3 Aces gold project in Yukon

March 30, 2020 / Canadian Mining Journal staff

Seabridge Gold (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SA) is acquiring the 3 Aces gold project in southeastern Yukon from Golden Predator Mining (TSXV: GPY) for 300,000 Seabridge shares and an immediate cash payment of $263,000 as reimbursement for project expenses.Golden Predator will receive further payments of $1 million on the confirmation of a 2.5 million oz. gold resource at 3 Aces, with another $1.25 million pay...Read More

B of A models 2020 nickel demand

March 30, 2020 / Northern Miner Staff

Bank of America forecasts global nickel demand could drop by 2.8% year-on-year in 2020, which could result in a nickel surplus of nearly 150,000 tonnes."Nickel demand has had a comparatively weak start to the year, suggesting fundamentals were already handicapped before the current health emergency," the BofA commented in a research note. "This was heavily influenced by subdued stainless steel pro...Read More

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