CAIRO - Saudi Arabia aims to raise the kingdom's mining revenues to $64 billion from $17 billion by 2030, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday.Mining vast untapped reserves of bauxite, phosphate, gold, copper and uranium is key to the Saudi Arabia's efforts to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons.Studies indicate that the level of the likely geological reserves in the kingdom exc...Read More
Mining giant Rio Tinto, (ASX, LON:RIO) has agreed to sell its controlling stake in R??ssing Uranium in Namibia to a state-backed Chinese company, in a deal that could bring up to $106.5 million to the world's second largest miner's coffers.The Anglo-Australian miner will initially receive $6.5 million for its almost 69% stake in R??ssing Uranium Limited, which owns the namesake mine, from China Na...Read More
NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATESToronto, Canada (November 23, 2018) - Mega Uranium Ltd. (MGA: TSX) announces that it has granted an option (the "Option") to purchase its royalty on the Langer Heinrich uranium project in Namibia (the "Royalty") to Uranium Royalty Corporation ("URC"). URC issued common shares to Mega in payment of t...Read More
Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Thursday inaugurated the Waad Al-Shamaal mining project, which is expected to boost the kingdom's gross domestic product by 24 billion riyals ($6.4 billion) and its non-oil GDP by around 3 percent.The kingdom will invest 85 billion riyals in the project, a 440-square-km (150-square-mile) city for mining industries in the northern region, the Ministry of Energy, Indust...Read More
Core shacks at NexGen's Rook I project in the Athabasca Basin. (Image: NexGen Energy)SASKATCHEWAN - Vancouver-based NexGen Energy now has results from latest batch of 29 holes it drilled at the Rook I uranium property in the Athabasca Basin. The program set out to characterize areas within the Arrow deposit's footwall, lateral development, potential underground infrastructure locations. The inform...Read More
Bannerman Resources Ltd (ASX:BMN) is progressing the updated definitive feasibility study (DFS) for its Etango Uranium Project in Namibia.The company is confident of a recovery in the uranium price due to supply and production cuts across the world's biggest yellowcake producers.Several optimisation opportunities at Etango have been prioritised and studies are assessing the potential of optimisati...Read More
Peninsula Energy Ltd (ASX:PEN) director Mark Wheatley has demonstrated his confidence in the company's uranium strategy by acquiring shares on-market.The non-executive director has this week purchased 47,496 shares with a total value of more than $10,000.This purchase takes his overall holding in the uranium producer to 103,852 shares.READ: Peninsula Energy's managing director adds to shareho...Read More
A Glencore Plc unit in the Democratic Republic of Congo had a ban on imports and exports from its giant copper and cobalt mine lifted by authorities in the country."They submitted a request," Jean Baptiste Nkongolo Kabila, director general of Congo's custom's agency, said Thursday by phone. "I have taken the decision to temporarily lift the suspension measures." Glencore said in a statement it had...Read More
WASHINGTON - November 13, 2018 - A review of comments filed in the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) Section 232 investigation into uranium imports reveals virtually no support for a 25 percent quota on domestic uranium beyond those with a vested interest in the petitioners' and their allies' growth, according to the Ad Hoc Utilities Group (AHUG).The petitioner comments reveal that they seek, un...Read More
Azarga Uranium (TSX: AZZ; US-OTC: PWURF) has increased the in-situ recovery measured and indicated resource at its Dewey Burdock uranium project in South Dakota.The project now contains 6.8 million measured and indicated tonnes grading 0.113% uranium for 16.93 million lb. uranium, a 97% increase over the previous resource. The measured resource alone increased 234%, from 4.12 million lb. uranium...Read More
Speaking at the Technology and Low Emission Minerals Conference in Perth, Bannerman chief executive officer Brandon Munro presented his company's strategy to take advantage of the early stages of a uranium bull market.He outlined the key factors investors need to look for to catch easy asymmetrical value at the beginning of a boom, noting the importance of a project's strategic appeal to sovereign...Read More
With the introduction of the new Cat 798 AC, Caterpillar expands its mining truck line to give customers the flexibility to choose what meets their needs and preferences. (Image supplied.)When Komatsu acquired Joy Global in 2016, the Japanese firm expanded its portfolio from surface to underground mining equipment, becoming the strongest competitor in th...Read More
Weekly Reports |Nov 13 2018As interest from financial investors and ongoing producer purchases continue to push up the uranium spot price, utilities are now in a hurry to top up supplies before year end.-UTC launches IPO-Purchases for year-end increasing-Utilities back in the gameBy Greg PeelAs producer purchases of uranium continue to underpin spot prices, with Cameco now having specifically disc...Read More
RSC Mining and Mineral Exploration (RSC) and Terra Modelling Services (TMS) today announced a co-operation agreement between the two companies to integrate their services.RSC is an international resource development specialist headquartered in Australia, operating in Australasia, Africa, Asia Europe and the Middle East. TMS is a Canadian full-service resource modelling consultancy and exploration...Read More
Investors and company leaders are gearing up for the Technology and Low Emission Minerals Conference (TLEM) to be held in Perth next week, with the conference boasting an impressive line-up of emerging and established Australian battery metal companies.TLEM features companies producing from or developing projects focused on lithium, graphite, vanadium, cobalt, manganese, magnesium, rare earths and...Read More
In one of the few exploration projects it is funding next year, Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) and its joint-venture partners Orano Canada and Purepoint Uranium (TSXV: PTU) are planning a 36 km ground-electromagnetic survey and 6,000 metres of diamond drilling at their Hook Lake uranium project in Saskatchewan.Cameco owns 39.5% of the project in the province's Patterson uranium district, with...Read More
The US Supreme Court seems inclined to support a Virginia law that bans mining at the nation's largest known uranium deposit due to public health and economic reasons, as it begins to hear a challenge to the prohibition brought forward by the owners of the property, with support from the Trump administration.On Monday, the justices considered whether Virginia's moratorium on uranium mining clashes...Read More
Regional, Rook ISASKATCHEWAN - Vancouver-based NexGen Energy, Wood Group and Rosco Postle Associates have completed the pre-feasibility study for NexGen's Rook I project in the Athabasca Basin. New numbers include a 64% increase in average annual after tax cash flow and a 43% increase in indicated resources compared to the 2017 preliminary economic assessment.The PFS looks at mining the Arrow uran...Read More
A longitudinal section of the Arrow mine plan relative to inferred resources. Red arrows indicate inferred resources not presently included in the mine plan.SASKATCHEWAN - Vancouver-based NexGen Energy, Wood Group and Rosco Postle Associates have completed the pre-feasibility study for NexGen's Rook I project in the Athabasca Basin. New numbers include a 64% increase in average annual after tax ca...Read More
The US Supreme Court will hear on Monday why a group of Virginia miners believe states should not have the right to ban uranium mining for public health reasons, part of a long dispute over a moratorium the state put in place on the radioactive metal in 1982.The bid by a Virginia Energy Resources' subsidiary and other owners of the largest US uranium deposit seeks to revive a lawsuit thrown out by...Read More