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Turkish domestic steel scrap prices have continued to weaken in line with the falling prices for steel and imported scrap over the past week, sources said on Monday December 3.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic auto bundle (DKP grade) ferrous scrap was TRY1,590-1,780 ($304-340) per tonne delivered on Monday, down from TRY1,650-1,850 per tonne on November 26.Steel producers and a maj...Read More
Since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, a healthy mineral exploration industry has been the major driving force that has uncovered northern Manitoba's economic mineral deposits to the benefit of all Canadians.Multiple cities and communities were established in Manitoba due to these exploration and mining successes, including Flin Flon, Thompson, Snow Lake and Bissett.In the 1990s, the Manito...Read More
The first, and most obvious, is that China's appetite appears to have largely been satisfied with the country's economy slowly switching from heavy manufacturing to an increased focus on servi...Read More
Treatment charges (TCs) for zinc concentrates continued to rise sharply in November, hitting highs not seen since November 2015.Fastmarkets' monthly assessment for spot zinc concentrate TCs, cif Asia Pacific, rose to $170-190 per tonne on November 30, the highest since November 2015 and up from $120-140 per tonne at the end of October.This is the biggest monthly move since Fastmarkets started pric...Read More
Spanish Mountain Gold (TSXV: SPA; US-OTC: SPAZF) is infill drilling its flagship Spanish Mountain gold project in British Columbia. The company is targeting near surface areas of the project's First Zone to upgrade from the inferred to the measured and indicated categories.Highlights from the program include 1.76 grams gold over 27 metres from 24 metres downhole and 0.82 gram gold over 67 metres f...Read More
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 2% to 589.52. It has been on a slow but steady decline since the start of 2018.Shares of SilverCrest Metals rose 28 ? to $3.27. Recently, SSR Mining agreed to invest $31 million into the company, buying more than 8 million shares at $3.73 per share.Earlier in the month SilverCrest announced some of its best drill-hole intercepts to date at its Las Chispas s...Read More
Lithium-focused Wealth Minerals (TSXV: WML; US-OTC: WMLLF) says it will spin out a copper company, containing two copper exploration projects, that it plans to acquire in Chile.Wealth Copper will be spun out to shareholders of Wealth Minerals and eventually the new entity will list on the TSX Venture Exchange, the company says.Henk Van Alphen, Wealth Minerals' CEO, says the spin-out gives sharehol...Read More
Carube Copper (TSXV: CUC) has expanded the gold-in-soil anomaly at its Main Ridge gold project in Jamaica east to a 5.5 km total strike length.Though Carube has several copper and gold projects in Jamaica, the company says Main Ridge is one it can fast track through exploration. Carube is now carrying out detailed mapping and sampling at Main Ridge, including rock-chip samples, grab samples and ch...Read More
Canada's benchmark index rose 1.24% to end the trading week at 12,197.82. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index fell 0.19% to 62.58 and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index fell 1.4% to 164.34. The gold price fell 0.01% to US$1,222.10. Shares of Moneta Porcupine Mines rose 27% to 12 ?. The company recently modelled a geological interpretation for its Golden Highway gold project near Timmins, Ontario. The model...Read More
U.S. markets surged in the trading week with a revised North American trade pact. The U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) agreement, signed on Nov. 30, replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 5.16% to 25,538.46 and the S&P 500 Index rose 4.85% to finish at 2,760.17.An upward guidance revision for its Fosterville mine in Australia propelled Kirkl...Read More
On Nov. 30, Burkina Faso government security forces were attacked on the road between Semafo's (TSX: SMF) Fada and Boungou mine, about 40 km away, leaving four gendarmes and a driver dead.No Semafo employees were involved, "but senior management continues its discussions with the government regarding the security of the public road," the company states in a press release on December 3.John Jentz,...Read More
Infill drilling in the southwestern part of the Marathon gold deposit in Newfoundland continues to return high-grade gold intercepts, Marathon Gold (TSX: MOZ) reports.The company recently completed its 41,000-metre stepout and infill drill program for 2018, and assays include 5.36 grams gold over 11 metres from 26 metres below surface in hole 18-330; 3.63 grams gold over 10 metres from 134 metre...Read More
Joint venture partners Golden Arrow Resources (TSXV: GRG; US-OTC: GARWF) and SSR Mining (TSX: SSRM; NASDAQ: SSRM) have begun commercial production at their Chinchillas silver-lead-zinc mine in Argentina's Jujuy province.SSR Mining and Golden Arrow formed the 75-25 joint venture, called Puna Operations, in March 2017 following a pre-feasibility study for Chinchillas. The study outlined a US$178 mil...Read More
North Vancouver/Stockholm-based Boreal Metals (TSXV:BMX) announced today it has completed seven diamond drill holes totalling 951 metres of exploratory diamond drill program at its Burfjord copper-gold project in Norway. In a press release, the miner said that assay results are expected in the coming weeks. The Burfjord project is comprised of six exploration licenses totaling 5,500 hectares near...Read More
DRA Global ("DRA") recently implemented a state of the art Advanced Milling Control System,using the MillSlicer instrument, on the Asanko Gold Mine. The Asanko Gold Mine is a large scale, multi-pit asset located on the Asankrangwa belt in Ghana, West Africa. Built in 2015 by DRA Global, ahead of schedule and within budget, first gold was poured in January 2016 and commercial production commenced i...Read More
NUNAVUT - Ottawa-based Aura Resources has issued an update of the work done at the Greyhound gold property, a partnership of Aura and Agnico Eagle Mining (the operator and holder of an optioned 70% interest). The project is located 40 km north of Baker Lake, and 32 km south of Agnico's Meadowbank gold mine.Agnico has completed surface mapping, induced polarization surveys, geochemical sampling, an...Read More
KINSHASA - Democratic Republic of Congo has declared cobalt a "strategic" substance, a government decree showed on Monday, nearly tripling the royalty rate miners will pay on the key component in electric batteries to 10 percent.Prime Minister Bruno Tshibala signed the decree, which is dated Nov. 24, despite fierce opposition from leading investors including Glencore and China Molybdenum, who have...Read More
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc (ISS) has advised shareholders to vote for Detour Gold Corp's refreshed board of directors at an upcoming special shareholders' meeting, stopping short of more aggressive changes demanded by activist investor Paulson & Co, the company said on Monday.Detour's existing management has been resisting Paulson's call for a complete overall of the board and immediat...Read More
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