Hudbay Minerals' (TSE, NYSE: HBM) second-largest investor, Waterton Global Resource Management, has turned up the heat in a boardroom battle that seeks to replace the Canadian miner's chief executive officer and overhaul its board.The private-equity firm, which holds about 12% of Hudbay, released an investor presentation on Tuesday, detailing what it sees as the path forward for the miner. The...Read More
South Africa's Kumba Iron Ore Ltd on Tuesday reported slightly lower full-year headline earnings for 2018, due to a dip in revenue and lower sales volumes.The company, a unit of Anglo American, said headline earnings came in at 30.28 rand ($2.14) per share in the year ended Dec. 31, 2018, compared to 30.47 rand a year ago.Headline EPS is the primary profit measure in South Africa, and strips out c...Read More
Chile's Superintendency of the Environment (SMA) filed charges against Lumina Copper on Tuesday for infractions to the provisions established in its Resolutions of Environmental Rating (RCA), both at the Caserones mine and the Electric Transmission Line necessary for the development of the project.Lumina Copper faces fines of up to $54.8 million for infractions to the provisions established in it...Read More
Toronto-based Nighthawk Gold Corp. continues to explore its Indin Lake gold property. Work done in 2018 included 2,153 grab and channel samples that led to the discovery of new high grade gold showings.Gold showings and targets at the Indin Lake gold property. (Image: Nighthawk Gold)The company also drilled the first ever holes at the Swamp target. This is a newly defined and laterally extensive g...Read More
OceanaGold Corp's. (TSX: OGC; ASX: OGC) stock was up 5.4% on Tuesday after reporting annual revenue in 2018 of $773 million and net profit before unrealised gains or losses on undesignated hedges of $124 million.Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBIDTA) came in at $364 million.The company generated about $121 million in free cash flow, $346 million in operating cash f...Read More
BHP, the world's largest mining company, has urged peers to create an independent international body in charge of overseeing the construction, integrity and operations of tailings dams, which storage mining waste, following the second collapse of a dam in Brazil in the past three years."As an industry, we now have to redouble our efforts to make sure events like this simply cannot happen," Chief E...Read More
Orocobre's (TSE: ORL) Salar de Olaroz in was the first brine lithium operation to go into production in more than 20 years when it was commissioned in 2014.But ramp up has been painfully slow at the Brisbane-based company's Argentina venture and on Tuesday, Orocobre had more bad news for investors who'd bet that the company could ride the lithium rally before it fizzled.Orocobre said heavy rains...Read More
The key to getting monster-sized returns in mining equities is to be small, according to managers of the Plethora Precious Metals Fund.With only 18 million euros ($20 million) in assets, Plethora Precious Metals is a minnow in contrast to giants such as Blackrock Inc. and Vanguard Group Inc. While investment funds generally try to increase assets to share success and rake in higher fees, this Dutc...Read More
BHP Group, the world's biggest miner, doesn't have capacity to raise shipments into the iron ore market as competitor Vale SA faces outages following the fatal mining disaster in Brazil last month.The global iron ore market has been thrown upside down by the tragedy, after Vale was forced to shutter operations and the Brazilian government said it's banning certain types of dams used to hold mining...Read More
South Africa's Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) on Tuesday called on its members at Sibanye-Stillwater's platinum operations to embark on a secondary strike over job cuts and wages.Sibanye-Stillwater last week said that it could cut nearly 6,000 jobs in a potential restructuring of the company's gold mining operations - where AMCU has been on strike since mid-November over...Read More
South32 could cut about 500 jobs at its Hillside aluminium smelter in South Africa's coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal, trade union Solidarity said, in a restructuring the company said is designed to reduce costs and help it contend with volatility in commodities markets.The Australia-listed company is planning to cut 500 of the 1,300 employees at the Hillside site, Solidarity said on Tuesday."The...Read More
Wolfden Resources, headquartered in Thunder Bay, Ont., has the results of diamond drilling at its 100% owned Orvan Brook property near Bathurst. The property is only 15 km from the active Caribou zinc-lead mine.A longitudinal section of the Orvan Brook deposit. (Image: Wolfden Resources)The company drilled 10 holes - four on the West lens and six on the East lens - for a total 0f 2,649 metres late...Read More
The new President and CEO of Barrick Gold (NYSE:GOLD)(TSX:ABX), Mark Bristow, said the company wants to strengthen its partnership with the government and local communities of Papua New Guinea where the Porgera gold deposit is located.Barrick and Zijin Mining Group each own a 47.5% interest in the Porgera Joint Venture, while Mineral Resources Enga owns the remaining 5% interest. At present, the f...Read More
Roughly one year ago and prior to that we observed that the gold stocks could be following the recovery template from what we deemed a "mega bear market."We define that as a bear market that is over two and a half years in time and over 80% in price. It cuts both ways.The gold stocks from 2011 to January 2016 had declined more than 80% and for more than four years. It was a textbook mega bear mark...Read More
Teck Resources Ltd (TSX:TECK.B)(NYSE:TECK) has an iffy record of rewarding shareholders.Over the past 13 years, despite several surges of 50% or more, Teck Resources has delivered a total return of around 0% despite building a business that surpassed $12 billion in revenues last year with roughly $4.4 billion in cash flow from operations.With such scale and cash flow, why has Teck Resources strug...Read More
The recovery in gold prices continues to pick up steam, and that has investors searching the market for the best gold stocks to buy ahead of additional gains for the yellow metal.Let's take a look at the current situation and see if this might be a good time to add gold stocks to your portfolio.Gold supportGold currently trades near US$1,350 per ounce, which isn't far off the five-year closing hig...Read More
Canadian junior Black Iron Inc.'s (TSX: BKI; US-OTC: BKIRF) shares soared over 35% Wednesday, after announcing it had signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) with mining giant Glencore (LON: GLEN).The companies are in talks to finance construction of Black Iron's Shymanivske iron ore project in the Ukraine, and are set to begin formal negotiations on the financing-offtake package.The MOU en...Read More
Precious metals continue to garner considerable interest from investors. While gold has performed strongly in recent months, surging to US$1,340 per ounce, it is palladium which has shot out the lights. The precious metal, which belongs to the platinum group metals and is valued for its catalytic properties, has gained a whopping 50% over the last year, recently soaring to a record high of US$1,50...Read More
These days, Americans are so busy fighting among themselves, they've completely lost sight of our most dangerous enemies.And that's why you're missing the gravest threat to the United States today...The real plot to destroy America.Fox News and CNN don't report on it.The New York Times and Washington Post ignore it.And the average American is completely clueless about the danger they face.But the...Read More
Lundin Gold (TSX:LUG) is a member of the Lundin Group of Companies. You may recognize one of its sister companies, Lundin Mining.While some analysts are calling for Lundin Mining shares to go on steroids, what does that future hold for Lundin Gold?2019 will be a pivotal yearHeadquartered in Vancouver with a corporate office in Ecuador, Lundin Gold is developing the Fruta del Norte gold project,...Read More