Canada's First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) became the first top miner with operations in Zambia to react to a planned mining tax increase in the southern African nation by announcing on Friday it would have to lay off 2,500 workers at its local mines.In an internal memo, the Toronto-based miner said the job cuts will be implemented in phases during the first quarter of 2019, adding they'll be equall...Read More
As Warren Buffett likes to say, “price you what you pay, value is what you get.” It’s the reason why a $300-per-share stock can be cheap, while a $3 one can be expensive. With that said, there’s something about low-priced stocks that captivates investors’ imaginations. After all, there’s nothing like being able to buy a ton of shares for dirt cheap and having th...Read More
Weak production growth, steady-to-rising demand, supply deficits and falling inventories pushed prices of palladium up 19% in 2018, after a 51% jump in 2017, Scotiabank economist Rory Johnston concludes in his Dec. 20 Commodity Price Index report.By contrast, cobalt prices were down 24% year-to-date in 2018. That's a sharp reversal from the 127% gain in 2017, which made the metal the best performi...Read More
The dovish Federal Reserve lit a fire under gold and its miners' stocks this week. As universally expected the FOMC hiked rates for the 9th time in this cycle. But it also lowered its 2019 rate-hike outlook bowing to the stock-market selloff. Traders dumped gold initially thinking that wasn't dovish enough. But market reactions to the FOMC formed over a couple days, and gold surged overnig...Read More
Gold stocks have had a rough run for several years, and while most investors have given up on the sector, others are starting to kick the tires on the industry's top names.Let's take a look at the current situation in the gold market to see if Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) (NYSE:ABX) deserves to be in your portfolio.Gold recoveryGold recently surged above US$1,260 per ounce, adding to a rebound that has...Read More
The company said it would buy for cancellation up to 25.51 million Class A shares. The public float comprised 255.13 million shares as at December 14, and 391.25 million total issued and outstanding on the same date.The programme will expire on December 23, 2019. All purchases at prevailing market prices will be made via the TSX, alternative Canadian trading systems and/or the NYSE.Alamo...Read More
The Sweet Repose adit at ePower's Panther Creek Project in Idaho. Left to right, Jay Gatten Vendor, Michael Collins, CEO, ePower Metals, and Brian Brewer, consulting geologist. Source: ePower Metals Inc.ePower Metals Inc. [EPWR-TSXV] says it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Exploracion Auramex S.A. de C.V. and its Magenta Cobalt Project in Sinaloa, Mexico.ePower Metals is buying the...Read More
Teck acquires 13.8% stake in Sun Metals.Teck Resources Ltd. [TECK.B-TSX; TECK-NYSE] has spent $3.5 million to acquire a 13.8% stake in Sun Metals Corp. [SUNM-TSXV], a junior that has been moving to fund exploration at the Stardust polymetallic project in British Columbia.Teck said it has acquired the interest by picking up 12.5 million common shares of Sun Metals at 28 cents per share. The shares...Read More
Nexa set to start construction at Brazilian zinc mineNexa Resources S.A. [NEXA-TSX, NYSE] says it plans to start construction at the Aripuana zinc project in Brazil, which ranks as one of the 10 largest undeveloped zinc projects in the world.The announcement comes after the Environmental Authority of the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil granted the installation license for the project.The Aripuana Pro...Read More
Share this articlePRAGUE, Czech Republic - The death toll in a methane explosion at a black coal mine in northeastern Czech Republic has increased to 13, a mining company said Friday.OKD mining company spokesman Ivo Celechovsky said that 12 of the dead were Polish nationals while one was Czech, correcting information given earlier that said there were 11 Poles and two Czechs.A further 10 miners we...Read More
Finding your way around a new building can be a challenge - it's not like you can just pull up your smartphone's map app and pinpoint your location like you would outside."A lot of companies - Google, Google Maps, Facebook - have been working on the challenge of indoor navigation for a long time," said Sam Sartor '18, who graduated in December with a bachelor's degree in computer science. "GPS dat...Read More
While prices for the major metals and other mined commodities mostly went sideways during 2018, there was plenty of big news over the year - much of its stoked by political pressures on miners. Here are our picks of the top mining stories of 2018.8. Beta Hunt bonanza - In the feel-good story of the year, RNC Minerals in September announced it had found a 95-kilogram specimen of rock at its Beta Hu...Read More
When Stratabound Minerals (TSXV: SB) CEO Kim Tyler told people he wanted to drill Golden Culvert as soon as possible after optioning the Yukon gold project in October 2017, many suggested that he should carry out some geophysical surveying before punching holes into the ground.But he told them that sort of work would only confirm what he already knew: that there was an outcrop the size of a transp...Read More
Power Ore (TSXV: PORE) is buying the Opemiska copper mine complex in Quebec from Explorateurs-Innovateurs de Qu?(C)bec (Ex-In), a private company.Opemiska consists of two past-producing underground mines operated by Falconbridge from 1953 to 1991. Located near the town of Chapais, Springer and Perry produced 23 million tonnes at 2.4% copper and 0.3 gram gold per tonne. "We've taken a bet on copper...Read More
Holy Toledo, this market sell-off/hysteria/nightmare is getting real UGLY, fast! Outside of cash, almost nothing is safe these days… Now, I realize that general equities and investors/speculators have been beyond blessed in recent memory, staging an almost unbelievable bull market (lasting ~decade), but as the saying goes: “It’s like taking the stairs up and the elevator dow...Read More
With the stroke of a pen, President Trump has ushered in a new era of agricultural industry.And it's about time...After almost a century of being banned in the United States - without any really good reason - hemp will be legal once again. The 2018 Farm Bill called for the legalization of industrial hemp and has been passed by the Senate and House. Trump signed off on it yesterday.It will be remov...Read More
The tribe had challenged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers' apparent failure to exercise jurisdiction over Aquila's wetlands permit for its Back Forty project.The Michigan Department of Environment Quality issued Aquila the wetlands permit in June, causing its shares to spike, but the tribe objected, claiming the federal government was responsible for iss...Read More
Panic.It's the worst thing about my job.The market cools off, valuations deflate, and my inbox gets overwhelmed with folks who are in full panic mode, wanting to know, "What do I do?"I don't mean to sound brash, but if you freak out every time stocks sell off, you should just stop investing right now. Otherwise, you're going to make yourself crazy, and you'll likely end up acting on emotion instea...Read More
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