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Why Oil Prices Fell in the Face of "Supply Shock" / Commodities / Crude Oil

January 19, 2023 / marketoracle.co.uk

"Crude should be at the forefront of a..."Looking back on 2022, one of the biggest fears about oil was that prices would skyrocket even more than they did due to a disruption in supply from Russia.Of course, Russia has been a major world supplier of oil, but after Russia invaded Ukraine, many global financial institutions refused to back transactions involving Russian oil. So, back in March of 20...Read More

Copper and Gold miners are leading the Q4-Q1 rally in broad asset markets / Commodities / Metals & Mining

January 16, 2023 / marketoracle.co.uk

Back in October we began to plan the prospect of a relief rally that would be fueled by over-bearish sentiment (contrary bullish), ‘Fed hawk’ relief as we anticipated inflation signals to ease, and a post (mid-term) election seasonal pattern that is bullish for stocks. This public article had a lot to say about that on November 10th:Q4-Q1 plan engages For the purposes of this week&rsqu...Read More

Gold Buying Only Starting / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2023

January 14, 2023 / marketoracle.co.uk

Gold has powered highersmartly over the past couple months, achieving big gains.  But this gold buying is only starting,implying this young upleg still has a long way to run yet.  Speculators’ gold-futures buying remainsmodest, while much-larger identifiable investment buying hasn’t even begun.  Traders will have to increasingly chase gold’supside momentum to resto...Read More

Teck to spin out coal, simplify share structure

February 21, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The company's base metals business will become Teck Metals, while its coal business will become Elk Valley Resources (EVR), a pure-play, high-margin steelmaking coal producer.Read More

Hecla bids for ATAC

February 21, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The offer comes over the top of a competing 12c per share, $25 million all-stock offer from Victoria Gold which came a week ago and which ATAC rebuffed as being too low.Read More

Sibanye swoops on battered New Century

February 21, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

New World's Antler points to high-return copper productionSPONSOREDnew world resources Nordic Nickel gears up for Pulju pushSPONSOREDnordic nickelSaudi builds foundation for world-leading mining sectorSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesAruma sprinting through lithium field raceSPONSOREDaruma resourcesThe Johannesburg and New York Stock Exchange-listed Sibanye is set to lo...Read More

Panoro targets Cotabambas PFS by end of year

February 21, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Luquman Shaheen, president and CEO of Panoro Minerals, talks to Mining Journal about the Cotabambas project, which he sees as the next large scale copper project in southern Peru.Read More

Coda's copper deposits: the hippo atop an elephant...

February 21, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

That is because this Gawler Craton advanced exploration project - which lies smack in between three of Australia's greatest copper mines - has two different stage and style deposits stacked on top of each other.First the hippo, which is called Emmie Bluff. This is a sedimentary copper-cobalt deposit which has an Indicated and Inferred Resource - from three deposits - amounting to a total of 1.1 mi...Read More

A high-grade resource in one of the world's most attractive...

February 21, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Ever since US president Joe Biden enacted the 1950 Defense Production Act to boost the nation's supply of domestically-sourced critical minerals, there has been a surge in interest in North American metals projects. However, when it comes to permitting new mines, not all exploration projects are created equal. "It's good to be in the United States, but you want to be on land where you can act...Read More

Mixed signals for junior miners

February 21, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

New World's Antler points to high-return copper productionSPONSOREDnew world resources Nordic Nickel gears up for Pulju pushSPONSOREDnordic nickelSaudi builds foundation for world-leading mining sectorSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesAruma sprinting through lithium field raceSPONSOREDaruma resourcesI mention these factors because it demonstrates that while in some areas...Read More

Bill Gates, BHP and the London mining nexus

February 21, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

New World's Antler points to high-return copper productionSPONSOREDnew world resources Nordic Nickel gears up for Pulju pushSPONSOREDnordic nickelSaudi builds foundation for world-leading mining sectorSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesAruma sprinting through lithium field raceSPONSOREDaruma resourcesBluejay Mining first hit radar screens when it emerged it had received b...Read More

Petra Diamonds Reports a $17.6m Loss

February 21, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Petra Diamonds today reported a 20 per cent dip in sales for the first half of fiscal 2023 and a net loss of $17.6m.The London-based miner made a profit of $49.1m during the same period in 2022.  Earlier this month it said it was open to merger and acquisition offers.It blamed the decrease in revenue - down from $264.7m in H1 FY 2022 to $212.1m in H1 FY 20203 - largely on zero...Read More

De Beers "Confident" on Botswana Deal

February 21, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - De Beers says the long-standing agreement, under which it sells 75 per cent of Botswana's rough diamonds, will survive the current turmoil.A company spokesman told Reuters this week it was "confident that our successful partnership will continue".Two weeks ago the country's President Mokgweetsi Masisi told crowds at a rally of his ruling party that he would walk away from...Read More

Mehta Fails to Halt British Court Case

February 21, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Fugitive Indian diamond merchant Jatin Mehta has failed in a bid to halt legal proceedings against him in a British court over allegations that he defrauded lenders out of $1bn.Mehta (pictured) had sought to have the case heard in India instead. He and his family were found to be living in London last year.He is accused of defrauding15 lenders out of the $1bn lent to his companies...Read More

Uganda launches competitive licence bidding, will set...

February 21, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

New World's Antler points to high-return copper productionSPONSOREDnew world resources Nordic Nickel gears up for Pulju pushSPONSOREDnordic nickelSaudi builds foundation for world-leading mining sectorSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesAruma sprinting through lithium field raceSPONSOREDaruma resourcesThe Ugandan government will set up a state-owned mining company, called...Read More

Jetti enters Chile at Freeport's El Abra

February 21, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The Jetti technology will be deployed on the existing leach stockpiles at El Abra and leverage existing infrastructure, including excess tank house capacity.Read More

Tech Talk for Tuesday February 21st 2023

February 21, 2023 / www.timingthemarket.ca

U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 35 points in pre-opening trade. The Canadian Dollar was virtually unchanged at US. 74.19 cents following release of Canadian economic news at 8:30 AM EST.January Canadian Consumer Price Index on a year-over-year basis was expected to increase 6.1% versus 6.3% in December. Actual was an increase of 5.9%.December Canadi...Read More

Miners lose cash as metal streams drain their resources

February 16, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

New World's Antler points to high-return copper productionSPONSOREDnew world resources Nordic Nickel gears up for Pulju pushSPONSOREDnordic nickelSaudi builds foundation for world-leading mining sectorSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesAruma sprinting through lithium field raceSPONSOREDaruma resourcesIn the report, Godell, a mineral economist who was formerly part of the...Read More

Northern Miner Podcast: Stabilizing Chinese property sector to keep heat on metals markets, ft GlobalX commodities analyst Roberta Caselli

February 21, 2023 / www.northernminer.com

This week's episode features GlobalXETF commodities research analyst Roberta Caselli in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on metals and energy markets. Roberta discusses the historically low inventories of metals such as copper and zinc, as well as the growing impact of the reopening in China and the country's stabilizing property market. She also describes the fundamentals of the zinc, uran...Read More

Big Ridge doubles inferred gold in Newfoundland while grade drops

February 21, 2023 / www.northernminer.com

Big Ridge Gold (TSXV: BRAU; OTCQB: ALVLF) says a new mineral resource estimate for the Hope Brook project in Newfoundland and Labrador doubles its inferred contained gold compared with eight years ago. The deposit in the province's southwest, about 75 km east of Port aux Basques, the closest point to Nova Scotia, is being explored where a former open pit and underground mine produced about 750,...Read More

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