BEIJING - Representatives from China's biggest aluminium producers will hold a meeting in the southern region of Guangxi to discuss slumping demand and falling prices, three sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.The producers held a similar gathering in late 2015 and the meeting comes as a protracted price decline leaves smelters struggling to turn a profit, even after significant out...Read More
JAKARTA - Copper miner Freeport-McMoRan Inc must pay Indonesia 460 billion rupiah ($32 million) in royalties for thousands of hectares of protected forest it used without a permit, Indonesia's Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) said on Wednesday.A 2017 state audit of operations at Freeport Indonesia's Grasberg copper mine, the world's second largest, pointed to the miner's use of more than 4,000 hectares...Read More
"Glencore subsidiary Katanga Mining has accepted it misled markets over #DRC risk and its ties to Dan Gertler, as alleged by regulators.It was fined US$22m and CEO Johnny Blizzard has been turfed out ($) | https://t.co/jGNVBrC991"Read full newsRead More
* BP launches sale of seven packages in U.S. shale basins* Interested buyers include Carlyle, Warburg Pincus* Assets are mostly gas-rich which may deter some investorsLONDON/NEW YORK - Britain's BP has launched the sale of U.S. oil and gas onshore assets that could raise more than $3 billion to help pay for other fields in the United States it bought in October from BHP, industry and banking sourc...Read More
AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. is considering listing its shares in either London or Toronto in a move that could see the company hive off its remaining South African operations, according to people familiar with the situation.While no final decision has been made, the world's third-largest gold producer has been discussing the plan internally and with advisers, said the people, who asked not to be identi...Read More
Scotgold Resources (LON: SGZ), the company aiming at opening Scotland's first commercial gold and silver mine, said Wednesday that it was ready is to start rock-breaking in the new year after receiving the green light.The company, which completed 19 permitting conditions and other related obligations for its Cononish project, near Tyndrum, said the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Pla...Read More
"#AIM companies need to improve market disclosures and governance, with recent failings showing how miners can forget their shareholders, writes @alex_hamer ($) | https://t.co/vBrpffAiW2"Read full newsRead More
After five years of negotiations, Havilah Resources (ASX: HAV) has signed a Native Title Mining Agreement for its Kalkaroo copper-cobalt-gold project, northeast of Adelaide in South Australia.Kalkaroo is believed to be the largest undeveloped open pit copper-gold deposit in Australia on a copper-equivalent ore reserve basis. The signing of the new deal increases Havilah's chances of being granted...Read More
Following months of speculation on its ability to buy new assets, Canadian miner Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) announced today it has completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Mason Resources (TSX:MNR) it did not already own. Each common share was bought at a price of C$0.40.The transaction was closed for about C$31 million, as Hudbay took over the remainin...Read More
Global gold production may be entering its fifth "peak gold" period in modern history, and gold mining in Quebec provides opportunity.Read full newsRead More
"$WAAS - AquaVenture Holdings Ltd (WAAS) CEO Doug Brown on Acquisition of Pure Health Solutions, Inc. Conference Call (Transcript) https://t.co/BNalypgPDV"Read full newsRead More
Jeffrey Christian is the managing partner of CPM Group, a commodities research and management, consulting and financial advisory firm in New York. He founded the company in 1986, spinning off the Commodities Research Group from Goldman Sachs & Co., and its commodities trading arm, J. Aron & Company. Christian is an expert on precious metal markets and took time to speak with The Northern Miner abo...Read More
The U.S. stock market continues to implode. At the same time, precious metals, bitcoin, and the Indian stock market are acting as superb safe havens.Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this great short term gold chart.Note the positive bounce from buy-side support at $1237, and the inverse H&S bottom pattern. A fresh rate hike from the Fed tomorrow could crush the stock market again...Read More
The great Burl Ives once sang, "Silver and gold, silver and gold, everyone wishes for silver and gold."Ives was singing as a snow man to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer at the time, but he might as well have been crooning to the stock market.Minerals are a staple that almost every investor considers adding to their portfolio. Like oil and gas, gold, silver and copper will continue to be bought and...Read More
Our forecast and expectaion of a major bull market in Gold, gold stocks and many commodities depends on a bear market occuring in the industrial stock market. That would include stocks in the Dow Averages and S&P 500. Our analysis suggests that a bear market is happening right now. For gold and mining stock investors that is good news. We suggest that you visit Montrealanalyst.com for the latest...Read More
Petropavlovsk has lowered its guarantee under the new $240 million Gazprombank package from $204 million to $160 million.IRC had borrowed $340 million from ICBC to build the K&S iro...Read More
The Teledyne Mine portal near the historic Cobalt Mining Camp in northeast Ontario. Source: LiCo Energy Metals Inc.LiCo Energy Metals Inc. [LIC-TSXV; WCTXF-OTCQB; 43W2-FSE] said Wednesday December 19 that it is hoping to raise $500,000 for exploration on its property portfolio from a non-brokered private placement offering of flow-through and non flow-through units. The proceeds from the flow-thro...Read More
Mineral projects of Canada Cobalt Works Inc.Canada Cobalt Works Inc., [CCW-TSXV; CCWOF-OTCQB; 4T9B-FSE], a company that is actively exploring in the historic Cobalt, Ontario camp, has reported a new gold discovery east of its flagship Castle propertyThe company says step-out drilling, 1.5 km east-northeast of the Castle property, has intersected an apparent syenite-hosted gold system.Two widely-sp...Read More
Exploring a high-grade quartz breccia zone on White Metal's Williams property in central Newfoundland. Source: White Metal Resources Corp.White Metal Resources Corp. [WHM-TSXV] said Wednesday December 18 that it has entered into an option agreement with Sokoman Iron Corp. [SIC-TSXV] to acquire by option a 100% stake in the Startrek gold property in central Newfoundland.White Metal said the Startre...Read More
December 19, 2018 - Brixton Metals Corporation (TSXV: BBB) (the "Company" or "Brixton") is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement for gross proceeds of $2,783,480 (the "Private Placement"). The Private Placement consisted of the issuance of 4,905,899 units of the Company (the "Units") issued at a price of C$0.15 per Unit, with each Unit consi...Read More