Teck Resources, (TSX:TECK.A | TECK.B)(NYSE:TCK), Canada's largest diversified miner, announced late on Thursday it expected fourth-quarter profits to be significantly below estimates, due to the low price of Canadian oil at the end of 2018, issues at its operations in Trail, B.C., and a decline in commodity prices.The Vancouver-based mining giant said all those factors combined, plus inventory v...Read More
In my Thursday Howe Street interview with Jim Goddard, I recap our latest US and Canadian market comments. For regular readers of those reports, the interview covered familiar territory. We also dug into the question of the marijuana legalization roll-out which covered a bit of new ground (click here to listen to the interview).The interview starts off with a challenge for listeners as we jump ri...Read More
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The aftermath of last weeks catastrophic dam collapse in Brazil continues to be felt among the junior mining stocks as investors weigh the contrasting forces of lower iron ore production and a potential environmental and legislative backlash. With hundreds of people still missing and presumed dead, there is understandable anger in Brazil at Vale SA, the company whose Feijao iron ore mine...Read More
Last month the Government's Bureau of Lies And Statistics served up an employment report purporting 312,000 new jobs in December. This despite massive seasonal retail lay-offs in the latter half of the month. The BLS happily counts those jobs when hired in October but forgets to remove them when are dismissed at the end of the holiday shopping season. As John Williams (Shadow Government Sta...Read More
Craig Crosbie and Michael Fung of PwC were appointed as administrators on December 19. Laguna was producing zinc and gold from the small-scale El Toqui mine in Peru.Read More
Nemaska Lithium Project (Mine and Hydromet Plant)Nemaska Lithium Inc. [NMX-TSX; NMKEF-OTCQX; NOT-Frankfurt] said Friday February 1 that it plans to resume construction at the Whabouchi lithium mine site in Quebec on February 5, 2019.The company said construction activities were put on hold on the morning of January 31, 2019, following a fire in the cafeteria of the Nemiscau work camp. The facility...Read More
Teck's Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta. Source: Teck Resources Ltd.Teck Resources Ltd. [TECK.B-TSX; TECK-NYSE] issued a profit warning Friday saying it expects to report fourth quarter earnings and EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization) to be well below consensus estimates.Analyst said many of the issues raised appear to be associated with isolated incidents...Read More
The grinding circuit at the Kamoto concentrator. Source: Katanga Mining Ltd.Cobalt sales by Glencore AG's Katanga Mining Ltd. [KAT-TSX] unit are facing further delays after the Democratic Republic of Congo requested a suspension of Katanga's KCC ion-exchange project. The project is being developed to remove uranium from cobalt.Katanga Mining's Kamoto Copper Co. unit received a letter on January 30...Read More
This time last year, cobalt was the hottest metal on the planet.It was everywhere. You couldn't go a day without reading about cobalt in the financial news.Now?Nothing. You barely hear about it, if ever.What happened?Well, much of the financial chatter centered on cobalt prices. Back in March 2018, the price of cobalt reached an all-time high of $95,000 per metric tonne. Prices had increased nearl...Read More
Golden Ridge Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: GLDN) owns a 100% interest in the 1,700-hectare Hank copper-gold-silver-lead-zinc property located in the Golden Triangle district, approximately 140 kilometres north of Stewart, British Columbia. At the 2019 Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, we learned from Michael Blady, President-CEO of Golden Ridge Resources that in 2018 they drilled just under 7000...Read More
Colorado School of Mines students hacked their way to a top-10 finish in one of the most important cybersecurity competitions in the nation.Twenty Mines students participated in the 2018 NSA Codebreaker Challenge, which ran from the end of September through Jan. 6. Combined, their scores were enough to tie for 10th place out of a field of 377 U.S. universities, Mines' highest finish ever.Ryan Hunt...Read More
VANCOUVER - A new partnership between First Nations, exploration companies and the B.C. government named the British Columbia Regional Mining Alliance (BCRMA) is working well to advance mineral exploration and mining in northwestern British Columbia.That was the message behind a panel discussion held at the Association for Mineral Exploration's (AME) annual Roundup convention in Vancouver.The four...Read More
Casa Minerals (TSXV: CASA) has optioned its Keaper polymetallic project 15 km northeast of Terrace, B.C., less than 5 km from the company's flagship Pitman polymetallic project, to a private company that has the right to earn a 60% interest in the property over four years.In order to earn its interest, the optionee must spend $4 million on exploration, pay Casa $550,000 and issue Casa 2.5 million...Read More
While lithium and uranium markets were depressed in 2018, a rebound could occur, as demand pressures for both metals grow in the years ahead. Here's a look at eight juniors that are active players in lithium and uranium exploration and development. APPIA ENERGYToronto-based junior Appia Energy (CSE: API; US-OTC: APAAF) is involved in uranium and rare earth element (REE) exploration in the prolific...Read More
The following is an edited excerpt from the publication "The lithium-ion battery value chain - new economy opportunities for Australia" by the Australian government's Australian Trade and Investment Commission. To download the full report, visit www.apo.org.au/node/210341.Australia has a comparative advantage in its access to the mineral elements needed for lithium-ion battery production. Australi...Read More
Commodities giant Glencore (LON: GLEN) has reported production figures for 2018 and confirmed 2019 guidance that implies a 14%-year-on-year increase in copper-equivalent production.Copper production reached 1.45 million tonnes in 2018, 11% higher than 2017, and Glencore expects that number to jump by about 45% this year to 1.54 million tonnes.Cobalt production came in at 42,200 tonnes last year, 5...Read More
VANCOUVER - A Canadian government led by Andrew Scheer, the current leader of the official opposition Conservative Party of Canada, would repeal legislation currently before the Canadian Senate that he argues hobbles resource development.Speaking at the Association of Mineral Exploration's (AME) Roundup convention, Scheer said if a Conservative government is elected this coming October, it will "d...Read More
CEO Benedikt Sobotka said ahead of Mining Indaba that, although volatility in both markets was expected to continue, the severe underinvestment in mining projects was set to drive up prices, asRead More