MELBOURNE - A hive of mine exploration activity is underway in a remote corner of Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert, led by Rio Tinto Ltd , which has boosted its holdings 10-fold in the little explored Paterson province in the past year.Rio's interest in the area - flagged by its application for nearly 30 exploration licenses - has sparked a stampede into adjacent lots by other explorers, who...Read More
CAIRO - Saudi Arabia aims to raise the kingdom's mining revenues to $64 billion from $17 billion by 2030, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday.Mining vast untapped reserves of bauxite, phosphate, gold, copper and uranium is key to the Saudi Arabia's efforts to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons.Studies indicate that the level of the likely geological reserves in the kingdom exc...Read More
A maiden resource estimate on Eldorado Gold's (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO) Bolcana copper-gold project in Romania, about six km from the company's Certej project, has delivered 6.5 million inferred ounces of gold.The inferred resource of 381 million tonnes grading 0.53 gram gold per tonne and 0.18% copper for 6.5 million ounces of contained gold and 686,000 tonnes of copper, was based on 98 diamond drill...Read More
Roscan Gold (TSX-V: ROS) announced that it is moving forward with the development of its Kandiol?(C) Project and has just started a 3,500-metre Air Core drilling program, designed to test several of the numerous gold geochemical anomalies identified at the site.Kandiol?(C) is 100%-owned by the Canadian miner and it is located in the gold prospective Birimian Rocks of West Mali, east of B2Gold's Fe...Read More
Toronto, Ontario - Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX: SEA) (NYSE: SA) (the "Company" or "Seabridge") announced today that it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement of one million common shares of the Company at a price of $14.00 per share for gross proceeds of $14,000,000. No commissions were payable on this transaction. The proceeds from the financing will be used to fund gener...Read More
November 27, 2018The next Fed meet (and rate hike) is December 19, and just weeks after that, U.S. president Donald "The Golden Trumpster" Trump may be set to unleash a new round of inflationary and growth-crushing tariffs.It's not easy (to put it mildly) for American business to create new factories to replace the products made by highly productive Chinese factories.So, for 2019, most top U.S. ba...Read More
Earlier this month, Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX:WPM)(NYSE:WPM) announced earnings for the most recent quarter, which showcased several notable drops when compared to the same quarter last year, leading to a drop in the stock's share price, which is currently trading down 5% this month.As the world's largest streamer of precious metals, a weaker than expected set of results from Wheaton could be a...Read More
Eurasian Resources Group has concluded power supply arrangements for its Frontier mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The contract was signed by the Soci?(C)t?(C) Nationale d'??lectricit?(C), the national electricity company of the Republic of Zambia; and Rawbank, a top commercial bank in the DRC.Frontier mine is a cornerstone of ERG's copper business and is situated on the DRC-Zambia border....Read More
Mr. Ralph Shearing reportsTELSON REACHES AGREEMENT WITH NYRSTAR TO AMEND LOAN AGREEMENTTelson Mining Corp. has reached an agreement to amend the terms of its loan agreement dated June 13, 2018, with Nyrstar Canada (Holdings) Ltd. The amended terms of the loan agreement will help Telson to better manage its cash flows at Campo Morado in a subdued zinc price environment.Effective Nov. 19, 2018, Tels...Read More
What's the future of warfare look like?For centuries humans fought hand-to-hand, with clubs, swords, pikes, and maces.Those weapons were replaced by cannons and flintlock rifles, which gave way to artillery and machine guns, which were superseded by tanks and fighter jets.What's next?Robots.Tanks, jets, and massive aircraft carriers continue to play a part in today's military modernization efforts...Read More
Australia-based Forefront played a significant role in the future of international mine safety when it launched an innovative application product to the worlds' mining community at the fourth International Symposium on Block and Sublevel Caving, held in Vancouver October 2018.The event presented the perfect opportunity to launch HEX-RITE, a lifting tool used for charging high explosives into drawp...Read More
Mr. Darrell Rader reportsMINAURUM SAMPLES 102 G/T GOLD AND 4.6% COPPER AT NEWLY DISCOVERED ALESSANDRA VEINMinaurum Gold Inc. has made its first high-grade gold discovery at the Alamos silver project in Mexico. The newly discovered Alessandra vein zone lies in the eastern part of the project, approximately one kilometre southeast of the Ana zone (see news release dated June 5, 2018).Alessandra meas...Read More
Minnesota- based Tacora Resources has secured the needed cash to restart the Scully iron ore mine at Wabush, Newfoundland. Funds are available from a $212 million private equity and senior secured debt financing as well as up to $64 million in mining equipment and debt financing.Tacora acquired the Scully mine in July 2017 and conducted a feasibility study for the mine's reopening. The results w...Read More
Mr. Ralph Shearing reportsTELSON REACHES AGREEMENT WITH NYRSTAR TO AMEND LOAN AGREEMENTTelson Mining Corp. has reached an agreement to amend the terms of its loan agreement dated June 13, 2018, with Nyrstar Canada (Holdings) Ltd. The amended terms of the loan agreement will help Telson to better manage its cash flows at Campo Morado in a subdued zinc price environment.Effective Nov. 19, 2018, Tels...Read More
Additional drilling at its 100%-owned Ayawilca project in the zinc-lead-silver belt of central Peru, 200 km northeast of Lima, has significantly grown the project's resource estimate from a maiden resource estimate in 2015, according to Tinka Resources (TSXV: TK). The carbonate replacement deposit at Ayawilca contains two different types of mineralization; tin-copper mineralization (the tin zone...Read More
Mr. Darrell Rader reportsMINAURUM SAMPLES 102 G/T GOLD AND 4.6% COPPER AT NEWLY DISCOVERED ALESSANDRA VEINMinaurum Gold Inc. has made its first high-grade gold discovery at the Alamos silver project in Mexico. The newly discovered Alessandra vein zone lies in the eastern part of the project, approximately one kilometre southeast of the Ana zone (see news release dated June 5, 2018).Alessandra meas...Read More
Economists polled by Refinitiv expected the consumer confidence index to slip to 135.9 in November from 137.9 in October."Consumers' assessment of current conditions increased slightly, with job growth the main driver of improvement. Expectations, on the other hand, weakened somewhat in November," The Conference Board's Lynn Franco says.The decline in business, income and labor expectations comes...Read More
Anglo American (LON:AAL) has increased its copper production guidance from its Chilean operations this year to 660,000 tonnes, up from a range of 630,000 to 660,000 tonnes previously anticipated, based on planned expansions at its Los Bronces and Collahuasi mines.The world's number four diversified miner has also set new targets for the next three years. It now expects to generate between 630,000...Read More
November 27, 2018The next Fed meet (and rate hike) is December 19, and just weeks after that, U.S. president Donald "The Golden Trumpster" Trump may be set to unleash a new round of inflationary and growth-crushing tariffs.It's not easy (to put it mildly) for American business to create new factories to replace the products made by highly productive Chinese factories.So, for 2019, most top U.S. ba...Read More
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed higher Tuesday afternoon, shaking off the latest Trump comment that he expects to press ahead with higher tariffs on China-made goods.Apple Inc. (AAPL) declined 0.4% after Donald Trump hinted at new tariffs on iPhones.United Technologies Inc. (UTX) slid 4% after the industrial...Read More