Seequent today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Geosoft, a Canadian geoscience software company headquartered in Toronto. The acquisition brings together Seequent's Leapfrog 3D geological modelling software suite with Geosoft's subsurface geoscience and exploration data-driven technology - to create a subsurface offering for the mining, civil engineering, energy and environmental...Read More
India's Jindal Steel and Power Ltd on Tuesday reported a profit of 3.44 billion rupees ($47.36 million) for the second quarter, helped by a one-time gain.For the year-ago period, the New Delhi-based company had reported a loss of 4.48 billion rupees.Eight analysts on average had expected a loss of 536 million rupees, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.The company had a one-time gain of 2.55 bil...Read More
LONDON - Sid Tipples, joint head of JPMorgan's metals business, will leave the bank around the end of the year, four sources familiar with the matter said.JPMorgan's metals operation is one of the world's largest with global activity in both industrial and precious metals. Tipples is based in London and runs it together with Mike Nowak, who works in New York.Tipples joined the bank in 2010 from RB...Read More
South Africa's Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (AMCU) has asked the country's Competition Tribunal to veto the merger between precious metals producer Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) and struggling platinum miner Lonmin (LON:LMI) to avoid around 10,000 job losses.The union, Lonmin's biggest, said the number of Lonmin's planned job cuts at mines that will run out of comme...Read More
Osisko Metals (CVE: OM) of Montreal has released results of the drill program at the Titan zone on its Key Anacon property 20 km south of Bathurst. Recent hole KAT-18-08 returned 8.0 metres of massive sulphides grading 9.53% zinc, 3.63% lead, 0.20% copper, and 68.62 g/t silver.The same hole also intersected a separate copper rich zone that assayed 1.18% copper, 0.82% zinc, 0.12% lead and 8.9 g/t s...Read More
SEDALIA, Missouri - Nucor Corp, America's largest steelmaker, planned a new plant in Sedalia, Missouri, long before U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs to protect the industry - and it does not need them to make money.Although the firm helped lead the lobbying push for tariffs on imports, executives say they invested in Sedalia and two other sites to capitalize on an already profitable str...Read More
"Abandon ship!" That's the advice that ABN Amro Group NV is giving any remaining Nyrstar NV investors.The central problem for Nyrstar is that it's increasingly looking like the company will struggle to refinance bonds due next year.Nyrstar, Europe's biggest zinc smelting company, is on an inevitable path toward a debt restructuring, said ABN's Philip Ngotho, whose bearish calls have proven profita...Read More
Talon Metals (TSX: TLO; US-OTC: TLOFF) has announced a preliminary economic assessment for the Tamarack zone at its Tamarack North nickel-copper-cobalt project in Minnesota.The study assigns the project a $210 million after tax net present value at a 7% discount rate and a 38.8% after-tax internal rate of return with payback in 2.1 years.The project would require $174.31 million in initial capital...Read More
Tasca Resources (TAC-V) today announced it has acquired the Selish Mountain property, a 290-hectare block 15 kilometres southwest of Merritt, B.C., and 10 kilometres to the north of Westhaven Ventures Inc.'s Shovelnose gold property, where recent drilling has returned intersections of 8.95 grams per tonne gold over 46.2 metres and 24.5 g/t gold over 17.77 metres. Historic exploration on the Selish...Read More
Junior gold miner Continental Gold (TSX:CNL), which is developing the Buritica project in northwestern Colombia, has been roughly handled by the market in the wake of an attack on its employees in late September 2018, which saw three tragically murdered. The miner has seen its stock plummet by over 40% for the year to date because of growing market fears that the degree of geopolitical risk in Col...Read More
When a stock that was tumbling like there's no tomorrow opens almost 45% higher one day, you know there's a big story playing out there. Investors in the beleaguered silver mining company, Tahoe Resources Inc. (TSX:THO)(NYSE:TAHO) woke up this morning to a similar experience: The stock's up a staggering 46% to $4.20 as of the time of writing. Thank bigger rival Pan American Silver Corp. (TSX:PAAS...Read More
HISTORICAL DRILLING INCLUDES INTERCEPTS OF UP TO 20 G/T GOLD NEAR SURFACE FROST PROJECT 12 MILES FROM GRASSY MOUNTAIN, HAS SIMILAR GEOLOGICAL SIGNATURESWINNEMUCCA, Nev., Nov.14, 2018(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paramount Gold Nevada Corp. (NYSE American: PZG) ("Paramount") today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Nevada Select Royalty ("Nevada Select"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ely G...Read More
Epiroc today launched a second generation of battery-powered machines designed to lower mining costs and promote a healthier underground work environment.The battery-driven underground loaders, trucks and drill rigs will create a number of benefits for mining companies globally, including improved health and safety, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and lower operating costs."We at Epiroc want to h...Read More
Gold has once again pulled back sharply in recent weeks to be trading at around US$1,200 an ounce, which sees it down by around 9% for the year to date. Many gold miners have declined in value as the yellow metal's price weakened to see the Van Eck vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF down by 25% over the same period. One junior gold miner that has bucked that trend is Lundin Gold Inc. (TSX:LUG), which...Read More
Premier Gold Mines (TSX: PGM) has signed an option agreement with Ely Gold Royalties (TSXV: ELY; US-OTC: ELYGF) to acquire its Rodeo Creek property, which sits adjacent to Premier's South Arturo open-pit mine, a joint-venture operation in which it owns a 40% stake and Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) owns 60%.Under the agreement with Ely Gold Royalties, Premier Gold can acquire a 100% stake...Read More
An anonymous director reportsTRIMETALS MINING INC. FILES THIRD QUARTER 2018 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, MD&A AND ARBITRATION UPDATETrimetals Mining Inc. has released its condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three and nine months ended Sept. 30, 2018, and the related management's discussion and analysis of financial position and results of operations. In this press release, all...Read More
After Wednesday's market spike reaction to the midterm elections, institutional investors began to taper back on their buying Thursday and Friday, given overbought conditions that have developed.As I have been stressing to you, fundamentals are deteriorating, in spite of what you might be hearing on the news. With oil prices still dropping, this is going to surprise investors with a sharp pullback...Read More
Azarga Uranium (TSX: AZZ; US-OTC: PWURF) has increased the in-situ recovery measured and indicated resource at its Dewey Burdock uranium project in South Dakota.The project now contains 6.8 million measured and indicated tonnes grading 0.113% uranium for 16.93 million lb. uranium, a 97% increase over the previous resource. The measured resource alone increased 234%, from 4.12 million lb. uranium...Read More
Mr. Eric Fier reportsSILVERCREST APPOINTS PIERRE BEAUDOIN AS COOSilvercrest Metals Inc. has appointedPierre Beaudoin as chief operating officer for the company. Mr. Beaudoinwill dedicate his full attention to the development of the Las Chispas property, and, as such, he will be stepping down from the Silvercrest board in December.Mr. Beaudoin is a precious metal mining executive with more than 30...Read More
UBC students Robert Fuerderer, Naman Shah, Emma Dodds and John Wei won first place at the World Mining Competition in Saskatoon, Canada in October.The World Mining Competition is the largest multidisciplinary mining undergraduate case competition in Canada.The world-class case describes the current situation of a fictitious company in the mining industry from the perspective of a decision maker....Read More