Copper is a metal essential to construction, manufacturing industrial machinery and to the green energy transition - and demand is increasing worldwide.The copper price broke an all-time record intraday high above US$11,000 per tonne this year on the back of historically low global inventories.Our sister company Mining Intelligence has compiled a list of the world's top 10 biggest copper mines bas...Read More
A motion for an official apology from the Ontario Legislative Assembly to former Ontario miners who were forced to inhale an aluminum and aluminum oxide powder linked to the development of Parkinson's disease was denied on Thursday, as the House asked for more time to "properly honour" the victims and their family members. In between 1943 to 1979, many Ontario miners were required to inhale the...Read More
Arizona Sonoran Copper (TSX: ASCU; US-OTC: ASCUF) has entered into a partnership with Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) focused on the latter's Nuton venture and a non-brokered private placement for total gross proceeds of up to $30.5 million. Nuton technologies offer a portfolio of proprietary copper leach related technologies and capability developed by Rio Tinto to deliver increased co...Read More
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Vale S.A. (NYSE: VALE) with making "false and misleading claims" about the safety of its dams ahead of the January 2019 collapse of its Brumadinho dam in Brazil, which killed 270 people, in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in New York, the SEC said. According to the SEC's complaint, the mining giant "manipulated multiple...Read More
Just one month after announcing a deal to acquire the Gasp?(C) Copper project, near Murdochville, Que., Osisko Metals (TSX-V: OM; US-OTC: OMZNF) has announced an initial inferred resource estimate for the Mount Copper deposit at the project using data from historical drilling completed between the 1960's and 2019. The company has also started a 30,000-metre drill program at the project, located...Read More
Champion Iron (TSX: CIA; OTC: CIAFF) has provided operational results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended Mar. 31. The company owns and operates the Bloom Lake mining complex, located on the south end of the Labrador Trough, approximately 13 km north of Fermont, Que., and 10 km north of the Mont Wright iron ore mining complex held by ArcelorMittal Mines Canada.The Bloom Lake Phase...Read More
Miner and commodities trader Glencore (LSE: GLEN) touted on Thursday prospects for its trading unit, saying it faces another strong year as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to drive up prices of most commodities the company mines and sells.Delivering results for the first three months of the year, the Swiss company said earnings from its marketing unit will "comfortably" top the highest end...Read More
Ukraine's suffering is under every eye…Russia's desecration of Ukraine appalls all right-thinking men. Yet many of these men insist you know of their appallment.We believe the term is "virtue signaling."They appear daily on the television, wringing their hands, rending their cloths... and gnashing their teeth.They yell about the march of evil. The murder of innocents. The fading of freedom,...Read More
There is a quote I've been reluctant to drop in the last two months even as I've been citing a whole lot of history that mirrors what we're seeing today in everything from arms to food to global logistics."We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same...Read More
Share this article VANCOUVER - AbraSilver Resources Corp. [ABRA-TSXV, ABBRF-0TC] shares rallied in active trading Wednesday after the company released drill results from an ongoing Phase 11 program at the company's wholly-owned Diablillos property in Salta Province, Argentina. The company also released a drilling update from a second Argentina project, known as La Coipita.Diablillos drilling high...Read More
Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixHistoric assays build hype for Alicanto at SalaSPONSOREDalicanto mineralsBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsThe 41.5m grading 5.2 grams per tonne gold from 598m reported today is more than 250m down-dip from the resour...Read More
Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsChampion Iron to fuel green steel revolutionSPONSOREDchampion iron Executive chair Peter Marrone told Mining Journal that there is nothing unusual in making such an arrangement. "It i...Read More
An investigation by the SMA after receiving a complaint from the General Directorate of Water (DGA) of Antofagasta regarding the reduction in the population of the endangered frog species telmatobiusRead More
Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsChampion Iron to fuel green steel revolutionSPONSOREDchampion iron The firm's diesel price had increased 52% over the period. Other key supplies were also fanning costs higher, it sai...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The largest blue diamond ever to be auctioned today sold for just under $57.5m at Sotheby's Hong Kong - way above its $48m estimate, but just short of the Oppenheimer Blue's $58m record.The Type IIb 15.1-carat, IF fancy vivid step cut Cullinan Blue (pictured) went to an unnamed buyer.The hammer price was HK$390m, plus HK$60.9m in auction premiums, totaling HK$450.9m...Read More
(IDEX Online) - A collection of over 200 pieces of jewelry owned by George Schultz - former US secretary of state - and his philanthropist wife Charlotte are to be auctioned at Bonham's New York.Seventy of the items in Style and Substance: The Collection of George and Charlotte Shultz are by Tiffany & Co.Among the highlights are the Hedges and Rows platinum and gold necklace (pictured, de...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Petra Diamonds is seeking a buyer for its loss-making Koffiefontein mine, in South Africa.The UK-based miner says otherwise it will close the underground deposit, in Free State province, when it reaches the end of its life in 2025."The focus of this disposal process will be to identify a technically and financially suitable buyer that could potentially unlock further value from Kof...Read More
Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsChampion Iron to fuel green steel revolutionSPONSOREDchampion iron Commodity price risk, which dropped to second, has previously always topped the survey during its 12-year history.Co...Read More
Total copper production guidance for the year now stands at 790,000-855,000 tonnes, which is down from 810,000-880,000 tonnes.The revision followed first quarter production falling 10% from Q4 2021 to 182,210 tonnes."Different factors at each of the main operating mines contributed, to varying degrees, to a reduction in grade from Q4 2021 levels," First Quantum said."Grades are expected to return...Read More
When Rio Tinto's Diavik diamond mine closes in 2025, it's going to put a major dent in the finances of the Northwest Territories. The mine, now 100% owned by Rio Tinto after it acquired Dominion Diamond's 40% share last year, following Dominion's filing for insolvency protection in 2020, was Canada's second diamond mine, with production starting in 2003. Now, it is the first of the Northwest Terr...Read More