At least 15 mining firms in South Africa have received notices of strikes to be held next week in support of colleagues at Sibanye-Stillwater who on strike over wages and job cuts, Minerals Council South Africa said on Friday.The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has been on strike at Sibanye's bullion operations since mid-November and plans to extend the strike to its plati...Read More
The company's founder announced his return as CEO last night The shares of Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ:ZG) are up 9.8% at $38.48 in early trading after the company's founder Richard Barton announced his return as CEO last night. The news came with the online real estate concern's fourth-quarter earnings report, in which Zillow posted stronger-than-expected revenue. ZG has suffered two dramatic bear g...Read More
The brokerage firm's new price target is a 24.5% premium to INTC's Thursday settlementIntel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is trading up 2.6% this morning at $52.76, following an upgrade at Morgan Stanley to "overweight" from "equal weight." The brokerage firm also moved its price target all the way up to $64 from $55 -- representing 24.5% expected upside from yesterday's close and multi-year high terr...Read More
Chile's mines minister Baldo Prokurica on Friday maintained the government's 2019 copper price prediction of $3.05 per pound.Prokurica told a press conference in Santiago he was holding the price outlook amid optimism around US-China trade talks taking place in Washington at present.(By Marion Giraldo and Aislinn Laing; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)Read More
About 20 people died on Wednesday when a truck carrying acid to Glencore's Mutanda Mine in Democratic Republic of Congo collided with two other vehicles, Glencore said on Friday.The accident occurred in the evening about 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the copper and cobalt mine in the southeast of the country.The truck was owned by a logistics company contracted by the mine, Glencore said, without...Read More
Rescuers have retrieved another 13 bodies from a disused South African coal mine following a gas blast there around two weeks ago, police said on Friday, raising the confirmed death toll to 18.More than 20 people were trapped underground in early February when a gas pipe exploded after they entered the mine to steal copper wire that supplies power for lighting and ventilation.Rescuers had to abort...Read More
Regional exploration last year on its Indin Lake property, 200 km north of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories turned up high-grade gold in grab samples taken in three different areas including 174.50 grams gold per tonne at Fishhook, the southernmost project on its 899-sq-km land package, Nighthawk Gold (TSX: NHK; US-OTC: MIMZF) reports.Fishhook consists of several historical gold showings s...Read More
Regional exploration last year on its Indin Lake property, 200 km north of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories turned up high-grade gold in grab samples taken in three different areas including 174.50 grams gold per tonne at Fishhook, the southernmost project on its 899-sq-km land package, Nighthawk Gold (TSX: NHK; US-OTC: MIMZF) reports.Fishhook consists of several historical gold showings s...Read More
Regional exploration last year on its Indin Lake property, 200 km north of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories turned up high-grade gold in grab samples taken in three different areas including 174.50 grams gold per tonne at Fishhook, the southernmost project on its 899-sq-km land package, Nighthawk Gold (TSX: NHK; US-OTC: MIMZF) reports.Fishhook consists of several historical gold showings s...Read More
The streaming name's fourth-quarter results beat on both the top and bottom lineThe shares of Roku Inc (NASDAQ:ROKU) are up 5.7% in electronic trading, after the streaming device service reported fourth-quarter earnings of 5 cents per share on $275.7 million in revenue -- more than analysts were expecting. What's more, Roku added 3.3 million users over the three-month period, while user streaming...Read More
Several Fed speakers could weigh in on the recent batch of ugly economic dataDow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are up over 100 points today, on hopes that a trade resolution between the U.S. and China is in sight. Ahead of the March 1 tariff deadline, and after weeks of lower-level trade talks, President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will meet in Washington, D.C., today. El...Read More
Shares in Canada's Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) climbed on Friday after the miner said it is ready to grow its yearly output to more than 500,000 ounces next year, supported by the restart of its K????lada?? gold mine in Turkey, and the soon-to-be coming online Lamaque project in Canada.The Vancouver-based miner cancelled plans last month to build a $500-million processing mill at K????lada...Read More
Shares in Canada's Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) climbed on Friday after the miner said it is ready to grow its yearly output to more than 500,000 ounces next year, supported by the restart of its K????lada?? gold mine in Turkey, and the soon-to-be coming online Lamaque project in Canada.The Vancouver-based miner cancelled plans last month to build a $500-million processing mill at K????lada...Read More
Shares in Canada's Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) climbed on Friday after the miner said it is ready to grow its yearly output to more than 500,000 ounces next year, supported by the restart of its K????lada?? gold mine in Turkey, and the soon-to-be coming online Lamaque project in Canada.The Vancouver-based miner cancelled plans last month to build a $500-million processing mill at K????lada...Read More
Shares in Canada's Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) climbed on Friday after the miner said it is ready to grow its yearly output to more than 500,000 ounces next year, supported by the restart of its K????lada?? gold mine in Turkey, and the soon-to-be coming online Lamaque project in Canada.The Vancouver-based miner cancelled plans last month to build a $500-million processing mill at K????lada...Read More
Canada's Pan American Silver (TSX:PAA) (NASDAQ:PAAS) announced Friday that it has completed the $1.07-billion buyout of Tahoe Resources by acquiring all of the issued and outstanding shares of the precious metals miner.Pan American expects to produce between 26.5 million ounces and 27.5 million ounces of silver this year, with gold output in the range of 162,500 ounces to 172,500 ounces.Based on t...Read More
Canada's Pan American Silver (TSX:PAA) (NASDAQ:PAAS) announced Friday that it has completed the $1.07-billion buyout of Tahoe Resources by acquiring all of the issued and outstanding shares of the precious metals miner.Pan American expects to produce between 26.5 million ounces and 27.5 million ounces of silver this year, with gold output in the range of 162,500 ounces to 172,500 ounces.Based on t...Read More
Canada's Pan American Silver (TSX:PAA) (NASDAQ:PAAS) announced Friday that it has completed the $1.07-billion buyout of Tahoe Resources by acquiring all of the issued and outstanding shares of the precious metals miner.Pan American expects to produce between 26.5 million ounces and 27.5 million ounces of silver this year, with gold output in the range of 162,500 ounces to 172,500 ounces.Based on t...Read More
* GRAPHIC-2019 asset returns:* GRAPHIC-Copper technicals:(Adds graphic, updates with closing prices)By Eric OnstadLONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Copper prices climbed to theirhighest since July on Friday as inventories tumbled andinvestors bet on a U.S.-China trade deal.Optimism over a trade deal has been rising as top U.S. andChinese trade negotiators haggle over the details of a set ofagreements aim...Read More
Canada's ZEN Graphene Solutions (TSXV: ZEN) issued a press release this week stating that management is optimistic about the company's project to transform mine tailings into cement replacement material.The experiment is being carried out at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus and it makes use of the tailings from the Albany graphite project, located in northeastern Ontario."Early...Read More