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Global Exploration Snapshot: The Americas, West Africa and Australasia remain popular

March 17, 2019 / www.mining.com

While gold miners have been making substantial profits in recent quarters thanks to rising gold prices and better operational and financial discipline, they continue to seek new ounces via the drill bit to fill their production pipeline. A look at eight majors and juniors exploring for gold worldwide.BARRICK GOLDThe world's largest gold miner Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) is also heavily inv...Read More

Global Exploration Snapshot: The Americas, West Africa and Australasia remain popular

March 17, 2019 / www.mining.com

While gold miners have been making substantial profits in recent quarters thanks to rising gold prices and better operational and financial discipline, they continue to seek new ounces via the drill bit to fill their production pipeline. A look at eight majors and juniors exploring for gold worldwide.BARRICK GOLDThe world's largest gold miner Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) is also heavily inv...Read More

Global Exploration Snapshot: The Americas, West Africa and Australasia remain popular

March 17, 2019 / www.mining.com

While gold miners have been making substantial profits in recent quarters thanks to rising gold prices and better operational and financial discipline, they continue to seek new ounces via the drill bit to fill their production pipeline. A look at eight majors and juniors exploring for gold worldwide.BARRICK GOLDThe world's largest gold miner Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) is also heavily inv...Read More

Global Exploration Snapshot: The Americas, West Africa and Australasia remain popular

March 17, 2019 / www.mining.com

While gold miners have been making substantial profits in recent quarters thanks to rising gold prices and better operational and financial discipline, they continue to seek new ounces via the drill bit to fill their production pipeline. A look at eight majors and juniors exploring for gold worldwide.BARRICK GOLDThe world's largest gold miner Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) is also heavily inv...Read More

The coal miner who bet everything on U.S. power markets and lost

March 17, 2019 / www.mining.com

Eleven years ago, Cloud Peak Energy Inc. (NYSE:CLD) made an all-or-nothing bet its rivals were unwilling to match: that coal would remain indispensable to the U.S. power sector.That gamble has now pushed it to the brink of bankruptcy.The company anchored its operations on Wyoming and Montana strip mines, brimming with easy-to-access coal that it sold to electricity plants. For a time, Cloud Peak t...Read More

Peruvian president says fight against illegal mining in the Amazon is ongoing

March 17, 2019 / www.mining.com

Peruvian President Mart?-n Vizcarra shared a video on his social media channels where he announces that authorities are going to have a permanent presence in the Amazon to guard against the development of illegal mining activities.Earlier in the year, his administration launched Operation Mercury in the southeastern Madre de Dios department. The initiative involved the deployment of almost 1,600 p...Read More

Peruvian president says fight against illegal mining in the Amazon is ongoing

March 17, 2019 / www.mining.com

Peruvian President Mart?-n Vizcarra shared a video on his social media channels where he announces that authorities are going to have a permanent presence in the Amazon to guard against the development of illegal mining activities.Earlier in the year, his administration launched Operation Mercury in the southeastern Madre de Dios department. The initiative involved the deployment of almost 1,600 p...Read More

Alrosa's resources estimated in over 1 million carats

March 17, 2019 / www.mining.com

The world's top diamond producer by output, Alrosa (MCX:ALRS), published this week an updated estimate of its Joint Ore Reserves Committee or JORC reserves and resources."The JORC Code-compliant report from Micon's independent experts estimated Alrosa's diamond resources and reserves as of 1 July 2018 at 1,064 million carats and 628 million carats, respectively," the miner said in a press release....Read More

Alrosa's resources estimated in over 1 million carats

March 17, 2019 / www.mining.com

The world's top diamond producer by output, Alrosa (MCX:ALRS), published this week an updated estimate of its Joint Ore Reserves Committee or JORC reserves and resources."The JORC Code-compliant report from Micon's independent experts estimated Alrosa's diamond resources and reserves as of 1 July 2018 at 1,064 million carats and 628 million carats, respectively," the miner said in a press release....Read More

Copper was key in the emergence of primitive life on Earth

March 17, 2019 / www.mining.com

Researchers with the University of Aberdeen and the University of Glasgow published a study where they state that an abundance of copper played an equally crucial role to oxygen in helping the rise and spread of the earliest animals 700 million years ago.By analyzing a series of geological records, the scientists were able to prove that the level of copper in the environment increased dramatically...Read More

Copper was key in the emergence of primitive life on Earth

March 17, 2019 / www.mining.com

Researchers with the University of Aberdeen and the University of Glasgow published a study where they state that an abundance of copper played an equally crucial role to oxygen in helping the rise and spread of the earliest animals 700 million years ago.By analyzing a series of geological records, the scientists were able to prove that the level of copper in the environment increased dramatically...Read More

Copper was key in the emergence of primitive life on Earth

March 17, 2019 / www.mining.com

Researchers with the University of Aberdeen and the University of Glasgow published a study where they state that an abundance of copper played an equally crucial role to oxygen in helping the rise and spread of the earliest animals 700 million years ago.By analyzing a series of geological records, the scientists were able to prove that the level of copper in the environment increased dramatically...Read More

Nevada Joint Venture Creates the World's Largest Gold Mining Operation

March 17, 2019 / dlvr.it

BALTIMORE, March 14, Mar 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- All amounts expressed in U.S. dollars On March 11, 2019, Barrick Gold Corporation GOLD(ABX)...Read full newsRead More

Dundee Precious Metals Achieves Major Milestone With First Gold Concentrate Production From Its Krumovgrad Open Pit...

March 17, 2019 / twitter.com

"Dundee Precious Metals Achieves Major Milestone With First Gold Concentrate Production From Its Krumovgrad Open Pit Gold Mine https://t.co/43tOQ93KMs"Read full newsRead More

Nevada Joint Venture Creates the World's Largest Gold Mining Operation

March 17, 2019 / dlvr.it

BALTIMORE, March 14, Mar 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- All amounts expressed in U.S. dollars On March 11, 2019, Barrick Gold Corporation GOLD(ABX)...Read full newsRead More

Ontario Minister Rickford pledges to cut red tape, slams C-69

March 17, 2019 / www.northernminer.com

The Ontario government has put together a new mining taskforce to help it overhaul the Mining Act.Whereas the previous Liberal government also passed legislation to modernize the Mining Act, Greg Rickford, Mines Minister in the new Progressive Conservative government, says the focus is entirely different."When they were modernizing the Mining Act, the very real fear out in the industry was that it...Read More

Gerdau expects section 232 tariffs to endure in 2019 - ceo says

March 17, 2019 / www.metalbulletin.com

Import tariffs on steel products in the United States created under Section 232 are likely to remain in place at least until the end of 2019, the chief executive officer of Gerdau, Gustavo Werneck, said during an event at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday March 13.The move from Donald Trump's administration boosted metal spread margins for steel producers in the US. This spread - calculated...Read More

5 things we learned at US National Association of Steel Pipe Distributors convention

March 17, 2019 / www.metalbulletin.com

Fastmarkets AMM attended the annual convention of the National Association of Steel Pipe Distributors (NASPD) on Thursday March 7 and Friday March 8 in New Orleans. Here are five themes gleaned in the sessions, on the sidelines and at the soirees.The US Gulf Coast is excited about China LNG import rumors. Reports that China may agree to buy an immense amount of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exp...Read More

China's finished steel exports down in February

March 17, 2019 / www.metalbulletin.com

Chinese finished steel exports decreased in February on both a yearly and a month-on-month basis amid uncompetitive prices and fewer working days as a result of the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday.The country shipped 4.51 million tonnes of finished steel out of the country last month, down 7% from the 4.85 million tonnes exported in February 2018, according to preliminary Chinese customs data...Read More

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