Big mining companies outperformed the broader market in 2018Read full newsRead More
An Australian mining company wants to expand its mine in South Carolina because they have found more gold.Read full newsRead More
Despite the government shutdown, now in its fifth day, the water-treatment plant that cleans mine waste from the Gold King Mine will not cease...Read full newsRead More
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"While the price of gold hit a six-month peak, the precious metal was also on track to enter into its first annual decline since 2015. https://t.co/M2HyR5gDMP #Investing #Resource #Gold"Read full newsRead More
Investors seeking exposure to gold typically focus on senior gold miners like Barrick because of the stability and maturity of their operations. While this provides a lower-risk means of bolstering exposure to gold, junior gold miners offer the opportunity to gain access to outsized returns. This is because they are typically viewed by the market as risky ventures that could fail should gold fall...Read More
A bidding war appears to have erupted over junior gold miner SolGold (TSX:SOLG), which is conducting exploration work in the Andean nation of Ecuador. The miner's stock has soared by 28% over the last year, and there are indications that it could climb higher.Emerging as a potential takeover targetSolGold has been attracting considerable interest from a range of major miners. Australian senior gol...Read More
I wish I would have followed by own advice and loaded up on Teck Resources (TSX:TECK.B)(NYSE:TECK) shares back when they were languishing under $10 each.Like many natural resource companies, Teck was feeling the pinch of declining commodity prices in 2015-16. Metallurgical coal prices had collapsed, and metal prices weren't doing much better. Teck's balance sheet was also in tatters, and it had bi...Read More
Shares in explorer SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) closed 2.3% higher in London and were trading up 8.3% in Toronto early morning after it announced it had discovered a new copper and gold mineralization at its Porvenir project, located in southern Ecuador.A broad zone of northeast-trending porphyry mineralization about 1km-wide and hosting numerous porphyry centres currently defined over 6km-long and...Read More
Newly public Finland gold explorer Firefox Gold (TSXV: FFOX) recently identified five new gold targets on its Jeesio gold project in Northern Finland's central Lapland greenstone belt after compiling samples in its geochemical database.The 2,751-sample Jeesio database contains 838 new till samples from the company's recently completed bottom of till sampling program, 768 historical Geological Su...Read More
Cobalt 27 Capital has entered an agreement to acquire ASX-listed Highlands Pacific. The acquisition, valued at $96 million, will increase Cobalt 27's exposure to nickel through the Ramu nickel-cobalt mine in Papua New Guinea. Highlands Pacific owns an 8.56% interest in the mine, which is majority owned by Metallurgical Corp. of China Ltd.Cobalt 27 has agreed to pay A10.5 ? in cash per share for...Read More
It's the first day of a new era for Barrick Gold, the world's largest bullion miner, as it officially began trading Wednesday as a merged entity with Randgold Resources.From now on, Barrick's symbol on the New York Stock Exchange will be GOLD, the ticker formerly held by Randgold on NASDAQ. In Toronto, the company is keeping its ABX symbol.The $18.3 billion-deal, which gained final approval in D...Read More
Metso has agreed to acquire HighService Service, the service business of the Chilean mining technology and maintenance provider HighService Corp.HighService Service is a high-quality service provider for the mining industry, with operations in Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Its sales in the fiscal year 2017 were 60 million euros and it has 1,300 employees.The acquisition is pending regulatory app...Read More
The Section 232 tariffs implemented in the United States in 2018 led to a sharp increase in domestic steel prices, driving the hot-rolled coil index to a nearly 10-year peak in July. But how did the tariffs impact the rest of the global supply chain? Fastmarkets' regional experts gave us answers.ChinaChina has exported less hot-rolled coil since the Section 232 tariffs took effect, but soft domest...Read More
Refining charges (RCs) for blister copper have decreased for 2019 contracts on a cif China basis because of growing concerns about supplies.The majority of contractual RCs were settled within the range of $155-175 per tonne for next year, Fastmarkets has assessed. That compared with $165-180 per tonne for 2018 contracts.In December, contractual talks between Jiangxi Copper and Chambishi, which pro...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mostly lower at the close of trading on Wednesday January 2, under pressure from upward momentum in the United States dollar index although a marginal downturn in US equity markets hindered buying sentiment.In afternoon trading, the three-month price of lead fell by more than 3% to reach an intraday low of $1,942 per tonne. It had spent most of...Read More
A quiet bull market in mining stocks is underway. The GDX ETF closed trading on New Year's Eve up 2.37%. Through Monday, the GDX has risen 20% since hitting a 52-week low close of $17.57 on September 11, 2018. In popular parlance, GDX is now in a "bull market."We expect that a significant bull move will occur and a significant amount of capital will pull out of "risk assets" and move into physical...Read More
China's manganese market was little moved in the last week of December with many market participants away for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Fastmarkets' 37% manganese ore index, fob Port Elizabeth, inched up by 6 cents to $5.62 per dry metric tonne unit (dmtu) on December 28. Fastmarkets' 37% manganese ore index, cif Tianjin, rose by 4 cents to $6.29 per dmtu, while the 44% manganese ore in...Read More
Glencore saw the heaviest fall of the group with a fall of 4.98% to £2.77 (US$3).The miner and trader had managed to avoid the global markets rout after Christmas that saw major indices mark the worst annual decline in a decade, only to be hit on the first trading day of 2019.Rio Tinto was better than the rest, but still fell 3.17% to £36.BHP and Rio also fell in Australia.The big Cana...Read More
Fastmarkets has corrected its titanium scrap unprocessed turnings (over 0.5% max 2.0% Sn) price, which was published incorrectly on January 2, 2019 due to a reporter error. The price was originally published incorrectly at $0.85-9 per lb cif major European ports and has been corrected to $0.85-0.9 per lb cif major European ports.Fastmarkets' price book and database have been updated to reflect thi...Read More