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Glencore Plc will supply cobalt feedstock to restart First Cobalt Corp's refinery in Canada, the companies said in a statement on Tuesday.Glencore's unit plans to provide feedstock for the refinery, which is expected to result in an annual production of about 2,000 to 2,500 tonnes per annum of cobalt in sulfate from the refinery.The First Cobalt refinery in Ontario, 600 km from the U.S. border, ha...Read More
Mining company Vedanta and its Zambian unit Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) said they were seeking urgent talks with the Zambian president following a high court order on Tuesday to appoint a provisional liquidator.The news has rattled foreign investors already nervous governments in central African countries are seeking a much bigger share of resource revenues, which they say will discourage investmen...Read More
Fresnillo said on Tuesday the current year would be more challenging than 2018 as a number of industry variables were "working against" the precious metals miner.The company, which posted a 15 percent drop in first-quarter silver production last month, said it was "disappointed" not to meet its long-term silver output target and that it was taking action to address this "in a number of ways".Fresn...Read More
Hudbay Minerals Inc. is preparing a sale of a stake in one of the largest copper mines under development in the U.S. as an investor pushes the company to review its portfolio, people familiar with the matter said.The Toronto-based base metals miner has interviewed potential advisers about selling a 30% stake in the Arizona Rosemont project and is planning to kick off a process in the coming months...Read More
Jason Albritton, who works for green group The Nature Conservancy, says he is all for technology to suck carbon dioxide (CO2), the main cause of climate change, out of the air.Stephen Johnson, president of Illinois Clean Fuels, a start-up that will produce jet fuel from municipal garbage, is also a fan of the nascent technique known as carbon capture and storage (CCS). He plans to turn a profit pu...Read More
Tanzania will start cancelling inactive mining exploration licences and distribute the acreage to artisanal miners who are able to immediately commence activity in the area, a minister said on Tuesday.Deputy minister for minerals, Stanslaus Nyongo, told parliament he had issued an order that "all inactive prospecting licences are cancelled for the areas to be given to the small-scale miners who ar...Read More
De Beers's diamond sales plunged to the lowest since 2017 in the company's latest offering, underlining a slump in the industry worldwide.Sales by the Anglo American Plc unit dropped 25% from a year ago to $415 million, and were down 29% from an offering last month. It's often a quieter time of the year because the industry has already restocked after the key holiday period, but total sales so far...Read More
The iron ore market is on a surge, the price last week punching up through the $100-per tonne level for the first time in five years.Copper, by contrast, is under pressure, with the London Metal Exchange (LME) price for three-month delivery sliding 10 percent over the last month and currently struggling to hold the $6,000-per tonne level.The fortunes of two commodities are beholden to China, the w...Read More
Canada's Pure Gold Mining (TSX-V: PGM) has begun trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker PUR, in a move aimed at lifting the company's international profile ahead of its transition to producer from developer.The Vancouver-based miner, which is advancing a high-grade gold project in Ontario, believes a dual listing will give it access to a much broader pool of inte...Read More
An indigenous Peruvian community has imposed a new road blockade on Chinese miner MMG Ltd's Las Bambas mine, one of Peru's largest copper producers, after talks with the company over compensation broke down, a representative of the public ombudsman office said on Tuesday.The community started the blockade at midnight (0500 GMT) on Tuesday, the representative, Americo Contreras, said by phone, citi...Read More
Vancouver-based Osprey Gold Development is planning to drill three of its five historic gold properties in Nova Scotia. The company can acquire a 100% interest in all five of the properties.The Goldenville project in Guysborough County is Osprey's most advanced project and the province's largest historic gold producer. The project hosts inferred resources of 2.8 million tonnes at 3.20 g/t gold or...Read More
Scientists at Northwestern University have experimentally replicated a medieval gold purification method employed by West Africans in the 10th and 11th centuries.The researchers followed a technique initially described in a 2014 paper by archaeologist Sam Nixon, in consultation with Thilo Rehren, a specialist on ancient materials and technologies. Their description of the method was based on a ser...Read More
Zambia's Eurobond yields rose to record highs after the government of the cash-strapped copper producer said it's planning to seize Vedanta Resources Ltd.'s mining assets.The yield on the southern African nation's $750 million of securities maturing in September 2022 climbed 81 basis points to 19.74% as of 10:43 a.m. in London. Rates on notes due in April 2024 rose 51 basis points to 19.02%. No ot...Read More
Toronto-based Wallbridge Mining Company must be pleased with the recent drill results at its Fenelon gold project, 75 km northwest of Matagami. Several new holes have cut wide zones of mineralization with intervals of visible gold extending Area 51 by 250 metres to the northwest.The results indicate the presence of stockwork-style gold mineralization with focused high grade veins and shear zones o...Read More
A number of TSX Index giants have pulled back in recent weeks, and investors who missed out on the big rally to start 2019 are wondering if this might be a good opportunity to make a few contrarian bets for their portfolios.Let’s take a look at Nutrien (TSX:NTR)(NYSE:NTR) and Bank of Nova Scotia (TSX:BNS)(NYSE:BNS) to see if they deserve to be on your buy list today.Nutrien Nutrien was forme...Read More
Paying attention can pay big bucks. If you’re invested in gold stocks, you’ll want to know what industry leaders are doing and why.Earlier this month, the executives of $28 billion miner Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD) held a public conference call to discuss the company’s first-quarter results.While the conversation mostly covered Barrick-specific news, there were plenty of c...Read More
Contact Gold Corp. (TSX-V: C) has completed its previously announced public offering, raising C$4 million. Shares of the company jumped by more than 13% on Wednesday morning. Its market capitalization now stands at about C$12.7 million.The funds will be used to conduct further drilling at Contact Gold's flagship Pony Creek project in Elko County, Nevada, as well as to explore other properties, the...Read More
May 22, 2019 Guest(s): Peter Hug Global Trading Director, Kitco Metals Investors may be in for "fireworks" this summer if precious metals producers are unable to keep up with what would be very high retail demand should prices drop lower, this according to Peter Hug, global trading director of Kitco Metals. "I think south of $14 [an ounce for silver], there's going to be extreme interest in the...Read More
The Government of Canada's Qu?(C)bec province announced on Wednesday that it will invest C$1.75 million (about $1.27m) to connect Newmont Goldcorp's Eleonore mine facilities to the existing regional fibre optic network. The project will enable Newmont Goldcorp to continue advancing its vision to create mine 4.0- an interconnected mine of the future. The connection, which will help optimi...Read More