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Roman Abramovich's sale of a stake in Russia's biggest mining company shows investor appetite for the country's assets is returning.Crispian Investments Ltd., a company controlled by Chelsea Football Club owner Abramovich and his partners, increased the size of the offering in MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC to 1.7 percent from the originally envisaged 1.25 percent because of the strength of demand. The s...Read More
Conventional wisdom says that an increased rate of diamond recycling results in downward diamond price pressure due to the theoretical increase in supply. However, the contrary may actually be true today in this relatively nuanced market. In fact, a more prevalent diamond recycling market could in fact be the natural diamond industry's saving grace.Historically, given that a more active recycled...Read More
Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.'s biggest union threatened a week-long shutdown at the South African power utility ahead of national elections in May in the latest sign of tensions between President Cyril Ramaphosa and organized labor.The National Union of Mineworkers opposes the government's plans to split Eskom into generation, transmission and distribution units, it said in a statement. The labor group...Read More
Shares in Africa-focused Gem Diamonds (LON:GEMD) took a hit on Wednesday as the miner disappointed investors by withholding its full-year dividend, citing uncertainty about the global diamond industry as one of the main reasons.The London-listed miner, which reported a sharp increase in annual profit thanks to record recoveries of large diamonds, said it had decided to strengthen its balance shee...Read More
Collaboration between two leading mining software providers, MICROMINE and IMDEX, has brought together detailed geoscience analytics with sophisticated 3D modelling and mine design software to enhance the geological modelling workflow.MICROMINE worked with its industry peer for several months to integrate output from IMDEX's ioGAS solution into the next major release of its 3D modelling and mine d...Read More
Six foreign-controlled miners operating in Indonesia, including PT Vale Indonesia and a unit of Australia's Newcrest Mining, intend to divest some of their shares "in the near future" to meet regulations, an Indonesian official said.According to Indonesian mining rules, foreign-controlled miners are required to gradually start reducing ownership after five years of production. Within 10 years, for...Read More
Vancouver-based Leagold Mining Corp. has filed the feasibility study for expanded facilities at the Los Filos gold complex 180 km south of Mexico City. The project currently consists of the Los Filos and Bermejal pits and the Los Filos underground mine.The study outlines development of the Bermejal underground mine, enlarging the Los Filos open pit, creating two distinct phases for the Bermejal pi...Read More
The London Metal Exchange's (LME) warehouse problems are back.Long load-out queues earlier this decade generated media scandal, a flurry of legal action and intense regulatory scrutiny of the exchange.The ensuing raft of reforms to its storage network appeared to have laid the issue to rest.At the end of February, there was a 229-day queue to get aluminium out of warehouses in Malaysia's Port Klan...Read More
China, the world's top producer of rare earth elements, last year also emerged as the biggest importer of the group of minerals used in everything from ceramics to consumer electronics, analysts said on Wednesday.China has for years been the world's biggest rare earths exporter, raising shipments overseas by 4 percent year-on-year to more than 53,000 tonnes in 2018, and its emergence as the top im...Read More
Monarques Gold Corp. of Montreal saw visible gold in 12 of the first 41 holes drilled to date at its McKenzie Break deposit 35 km north of Val d'Or. One of those holes returned a bonanza of 265.00 g/t gold over 0.6 metre.The second set of results, while not that high, still qualify for the "high grade" category:Hole MK-18-216: 24.40 g/t gold over 2.0 metres, including 93.80 g/t over 0.5 metre;Hole...Read More
Imperial Metals' deal with Newcrest Mining to sell a 70% stake in its Red Chris mine in British Columbia averts a "liquidity crunch" for the Vancouver-based company and will improve execution at the mine, CIBC says.The transaction prompted the bank to upgrade Imperial Metals to a neutral rating from underperformer and lift its 12-18 month target price on the stock from $0.60 per share to $3.50 per...Read More
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich sold $551 million worth of shares in mining giant Norilsk Nickel on Tuesday during an accelerated bookbuilding deal (ABB), the deal's arranger VTB Capital said.The shares, accounting for a 1.7 percent stake in the world's largest palladium producer, were bought predominantly by British-based investors, with Russian investors also buying a third of the shares, D...Read More
Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX:NDM) has entered into a bought deal financing with Cantor Fitzgerald Canada to raise $10 million that will allow the miner to further advance its Pebble copper-gold-silver project in Alaska.The deal prices the company's shares at 64 Canadian cents, a 13.5% discount to the stock's price before the financing was announced.The Canadian miner has also granted the underwr...Read More
Greece's Public Power Corp (PPC) relaunched the sale of three coal-fired power plants on Friday with a March 15 deadline for expressions of interest, after a previous tender last month failed to attract any satisfactory bids.Former bidders, which include Mytilineos, GEK Terna, and Beijing Guohua Power Company, are entitled to express interest in addition to new ones, according to the tender docume...Read More
Toronto-based Wallbridge Mining Co. has intersected 2.55 g/t gold over 20.0 metres at its Beschefer property located 28 km from the company's Fenelon gold property. Results such as this have confirmed the continuity of the gold-bearing structure at the project.This is the company's first drill program at Beschefer, and all five holes cut significant gold mineralization in the B-14 shear zone. The...Read More
A lack of exploration and discovery near Hemlo has created an opportunity for one Canadian company with a deep connection to the region to make the next discovery and the regional connection between two possible gold systems. by Nicholas LePanThe winters in Northern Ontario pause most exploration programs, however for one company, the deep chill provides an opportunity to follow up on an i...Read More
With silver now trading at US$15 an ounce, which is around where it was in late 2009, there are growing questions about the viability of the operations of many primary silver miners. This is because while silver remains stagnant, costs continue to rise, impacting the profitability of primary silver miners and the return on capital that they can generate.That has triggered significant speculation t...Read More
B.C.'s biggest mining mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in 2018 doubled in value to $9.5 billion compared with $4.6 billion in 2017, which was the second-lowest-valued year for M&As since 2013.Despite the impressive growth in 2018, the annual value of B.C.'s mining M&As still has a long way to go to reach the 2015 high of $10.4 billion. In recent years, the average mining M&A deal value has grown fa...Read More
Mar 14, 2019 Guest(s): Randy Smallwood Silver simply has better fundamentals than gold, but will take a while before prices catch up to its yellow metal counterpart, this according to Randy Smallwood, CEO of Wheaton Precious Metals. "I think there are better fundamentals behind silver than gold just because of the increase of industrial demand, the high efficiency electronics that we all demand...Read More