Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.China's influence on global commodity markets is unparalled. It's a matter of scale.China imports more than 60% of domestic demand for oil, gas and iron ore. Its imports of oil, LNG and coal account for around a fifth of glo...Read More
Gold has faded from interest in the past couple months, overshadowed by the monster stock-market rally. But gold has been consolidating high, quietly basing before its next challenge to major $1350 bull-market resistance. A decisive breakout above will really catch investors' attention, greatly improving sentiment and driving major capital inflows. With gold-futures speculators not very long...Read More
Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipAlkane maps own path to world-class critical metals producerSPONSOREDalkane resourcesGlobal Atomic's 'transformational discovery' changes everythingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpIt hit 626m at 0.62g/t gold and 0.11% copper from surface at Gran Bestia, which lies 1km no...Read More
Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.China's influence on global commodity markets is unparalled. It's a matter of scale.China imports more than 60% of domestic demand for oil, gas and iron ore. Its imports of oil, LNG and coal account for around a fifth of glo...Read More
For a few hours on Sunday, some 40 people from the farming community of Tacrara, located in the Cusco department in southern Peru, blockaded a road used by Canadian miner Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) to transport copper from its Constancia project to the Port of Matarani.Local media report that about 60 trucks carrying mineral were being prevented from leaving Cusco's Espinar province. The pro...Read More
Following a blockade that lasted for over two months, Peru's national highway CU-135, known as Corredor Minero del Sur, was reopened this weekend and trucks carrying copper concentrate from Las Bambas mine started running through it again.A 12-kilometre section of the runway in the southern Cusco department had been blocked for 68 days by protesters from the Nueva Fuerabamba community, whose farml...Read More
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Miramont Resources (CSE: MONT; US-OTC: MRRMF) cut significant mineralization during the 3,600 metre drill program at its Cerro Hermoso polymetallic project in Peru in one zone but limited mineralization in two others.The company tested Cerro Hermoso's Central Breccia zone, Stockwork zone and Carbonate Replacement zone. While it encountered short intervals of anomalous mineralization in the Stockw...Read More
Chilean copper miner Antofagasta Plc (LON:ANTO) will make a decision about going ahead with a $3B expansion of its Centinela mine, located in the country's north, by the end of next year or in 2021.Speaking on the sidelines of the World Copper Conference held this week in Santiago, chief executive Iv??n Arriagada said the company had recently decided to advance the studies on a second concentra...Read More
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday the country could open a vast reserve in the Amazon rainforest to mining, a move attempted by his predecessor that was quickly rescinded following an international environmental outcry.The National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca) occupies roughly 17,800 square miles (46,100 square kilometers), an area slightly larger than Denmark, that is...Read More
Polish lawmakers approved a 15% cut to the country's copper tax on Friday, which would give state-run KGHM (WSE:KGH) a bit more room to breathe, as the miner has been struggling with rising costs, falling copper prices, technical problems and higher-than-expected capital spending in the past few years.The motion was approved by 407 members of the parliament's lower house, dominated by the ruli...Read More
BEIJING - China's copper concentrate imports fell 8% in March from the month before when imports were unusually strong due to restocking ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays, customs data showed on Friday.Arrivals of copper concentrate, or partially processed copper ore, were 1.77 million tonnes last month, according to the General Administration of Customs data. That is up 10.6 percent from March...Read More
Revelo Resources (TSXV: RVL) and Sociedad Qu?-mica y Minera de Chile (NYSE: SQM) have signed an exploration option agreement under which SQM can acquire up to an 80% interest in Calvario and Mirador, two of Revelo's copper-focused projects in northern Chile.According to Revelo, both Calvario and Mirador display widespread geological characteristics indicative of the upper parts of possible porphyr...Read More
Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.Once the deal closes, Chevron will be the second-largest producing major in 2019 terms. It was fourth.The acquisition makes the Majors' peer group much more polarised. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP are now in a league of their own...Read More
Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.Once the deal closes, Chevron will be the second-largest producing major in 2019 terms. It was fourth.The acquisition makes the Majors' peer group much more polarised. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP are now in a league of their own...Read More
Green shoots? Anyone seeing the green shoots of a Springtime recovery in lithium stocks? No, me neither.... However, I do note one positive development, Lithium Americas is receiving US$160M for 12.5% of its JV brine project in Argentina. That implies a C$1.7 billion valuation for the entire project, of which Lithium Americas will own half. This is the best news since POSCO paid US$280M to Galaxy...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxInnovation will figure heavily in both projects as the company implements a change of strategy focused on sustainability to position it for the changing future.Read More
Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.Once the deal closes, Chevron will be the second-largest producing major in 2019 terms. It was fourth.The acquisition makes the Majors' peer group much more polarised. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP are now in a league of their own...Read More