All three major US equity indexes gained at least 4% on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones closing just short of a 5% surge. It's the first time that has happened since 2011, according to Bloomberg.Major mining companies were caught up in the market frenzy on Wednesday with lithium producers and potash miners enjoying some of the heaviest buying.Among fertilizer producers, Israel Chemical l...Read More
All three major US equity indexes gained at least 4% on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones closing just short of a 5% surge. It's the first time that has happened since 2011, according to Bloomberg.Major mining companies were caught up in the market frenzy on Wednesday with lithium producers and potash miners enjoying some of the heaviest buying.Among fertilizer producers, Israel Chemical l...Read More
The Trump administration is poised to propose maintaining Obama-era restrictions on mercury pollution from power plants, responding to opposition from electric utilities that have already spent billions of dollars to meet the requirements.At the same time, the Environmental Protection Agency is set to propose changes that may make it harder to toughen mercury emissions standards in the future by d...Read More
Russian aluminium company Rusal said on Wednesday that board chairman Matthias Warnig resigned as part of a restructuring it agreed to implement in exchange for a waiver from U.S. sanctions.The U.S. Treasury said last week it would remove sanctions against Rusal, its parent En+ and power firm EuroSibEnergo if they restructured to reduce the controlling stakes of businessman Oleg Deripaska, who is...Read More
MANILA- Dalian coke futures fell on Wednesday for a third session amid concerns over weak demand for the steelmaking raw material, with Beijing vowing not to relax its anti-pollution campaign that has forced steel mills to reduce output or even halt operations.Chinese iron ore and rebar contracts, however, edged up on hopes that steel demand will pick up, with mills expected to replenish stocks ah...Read More
Nickel and palladium producer Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) has terminated an agreement to sell its African assets to Botswana's state-run BCL Group, the Russian company said in a statement.BCL was expected to buy a 50% stake in Nkomati Nickel mine from Nornickel but it pulled out of the 3 billion pula ($281 million) deal about two years ago due to a lack of funds, prompting the Russian firm to file...Read More
A global nickel market deficit will nearly halve to 49,000 tonnes in 2019 from 93,000 tonnes this year on higher output of primary metals by global suppliers and of lower-grade nickel pig iron (NPI) in Indonesia, Sumitomo Metal Mining said on Tuesday.Sumitomo Metal, Japan's biggest nickel smelter, said global demand for nickel is seen increasing by 3.4 percent in 2019 from this year to 2.339 milli...Read More
China's Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co will invest $147.2 million to build a copper project in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as it extends the exploration of its mining assets in the country, the company said in a filing to the Shanghai stock exchange on Tuesday.The project will be located in the Lukuni region in the south of DRC, and will have annual electro-deposited copper production capacity...Read More
BEIJING, Dec 22 - China's carbon industry will face severe overcapacity from the second-half of 2020, after producers rushed to expand capacity amid fat profit-margins, an official from the China Carbon Industry Association (CCIA) said on Saturday.Carbon products are widely used in sectors such as metallurgy, chemicals, aviation and renewable energy due to their strong resistance to corrosion and...Read More
With more than 25 years' experience in the diamond industry - including 19 with De Beers - Stuart Brown was looking for a new opportunity. He found it as the president and CEO of Mountain Province Diamonds (TSX: MPVD; NASDAQ: MPVD)."I was quite excited by this," he said. "I think the mine has good potential, because it's just starting off. I thought I could add a lot of value with my prior rel...Read More
With more than 25 years' experience in the diamond industry - including 19 with De Beers - Stuart Brown was looking for a new opportunity. He found it as the president and CEO of Mountain Province Diamonds (TSX: MPVD; NASDAQ: MPVD)."I was quite excited by this," he said. "I think the mine has good potential, because it's just starting off. I thought I could add a lot of value with my prior rel...Read More
Reports that AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. is considering a London listing provides some festive cheer to a city that's lost its way as a home for gold miners.While Toronto, Johannesburg and Sydney have long hosted the biggest producers, London vies with New York as the world's premier gold trading hub and its financiers have bankrolled the industry since the development of South Africa's giant gold fiel...Read More
Other than being the country where Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara was killed, most North Americans know little about Bolivia.The landlocked country is surrounded by Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile. Today, it is South America's poorest nation. But in the 1960s, Bolivia was going to be the launchpad of Che Guevara's socialist revolution.Ernesto "Che" GuevaraChe's legacyBorn in Argentina...Read More
For the past nine months, a U.S. company that is the world's largest producer of lithium - a key ingredient in electric-car batteries - has been locked in battle with the Chilean government over pricing issues, production quotas and environmental compliance. With no resolution in sight, the fight is sending tremors all the way up the electric vehicle supply chain that provides batteries to Tesla I...Read More
The two amateur prospectors spied what they had come looking for- an abandoned mine shaft possibly hiding treasure within. But it wasn't gold or silver the two sought in a rural Nevada ...Read full newsRead More
The recent news that the threat of a full-blown trade war between the world's two largest economies, the U.S. and China, is easing has bolstered the outlook for the global economy. While concerns over an economic slowdown continue to fester, there are signs that the economic slowdown may not be as severe as anticipated by some pundits. That's good news for metals miners such as Labrador Iron Ore R...Read More
In addition to The Northern Miner's full podcast episodes that can stretch beyond an hour, we also produce bonus, short, single-topic podcast segments, called a "Miner Moment". The following are the best Miner Moments of 2018, as selected by Northern Miner editor-in-chief John Cumming, in chronological order:________________________________________1. Miner Moment #9: Artisanal cobalt mining in th...Read More
On Thursday, December 31, 2015, at around 4:30 p.m. Central time, a floating city named the Theo T departed the Port of Corpus Christi in southeast Texas.The Theo T's destination was kept a secret by its owners, but we do know the contents it was holding below its deck were worth an estimated $24 million.Later, marine shipping records revealed the Theo T was on a three-week journey eastward across...Read More
Dozens of massacres and a sprawling organized crime structure are behind a recent alliance between the governments of Venezuela and Turkey to extract, refine and market the "blood gold" that leaves the Amazon and supplies cross-border illegal economies. During a recent visit to Venezuela, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ratified the leading role of Turkey in ...Read full newsRead More
US mining giant Freeport finally reaches terms on the state-forced divestment of the Grasberg mine, a $3.8 billion deal President Joko Widodo characterized as an 'historic moment'Read full newsRead More