The market for natural resources remains subdued, but there are pockets of strength. In the Uranium sector, Energy Fuels, IsoEnergy & Appia Energy are up an average of ~150% from their respective 52-week lows. In Copper, Trilogy Metals & Pacific Booker are up an average of ~250%. Good things are happening, but not in Cobalt, at least not yet.Could This Pure-Play, North American Cobalt Juni...Read More
Vancouver's Teck Resources and Japanese partner Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo Corp. have closed their $1.2-billion transaction giving Sumitomo a 30% indirect interest in the Quebrada Blanca copper project.The Quebrada Blanca property is 240 km southeast of Iquique at an elevation of 4,400 metres.Teck received the final permit to go forward with a $4.7-billion expansion at the mine and mill in...Read More
ArcWest Exploration (TSXV: AWX) closed today the 100% acquisition of the Sparrowhawk property near Smithers, in the western Canadian province of British Columbia.In a press release, the Vancouver-based miner explained that it decided to go ahead with the purchase because the property is adjacent to two significant porphyry copper-gold deposits, including Glencore Canada's Bell and Granisle mines a...Read More
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"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftHow to monitor and manage your Tailings Storage FacilitySPONSOREDisometrixIt's not easy being an optimist while China and the U.S. wage a trade war, the bond market flags a recession, and the U.K.Read More
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The major silver miners have rallied higher on balance in recent months, enjoying a young upleg. That's a welcome change after they suffered a miserable 2018. Times are tough for silver miners, since silver's prices have languished near extreme lows relative to gold. That has forced many traditional silver miners to increasingly diversify into gold. The major silver miners' recently-released Q4'18...Read More
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Polish miner KGHM and a union representing workers at its Sierra Gorda copper mine in Chile have come to an agreement over contract talks, the head of the union told Reuters, heading off the threat of a strike.Maykel Ocayo, president of Sierra Gorda's 520-member Union 1, told Reuters in a message that workers had voted on Saturday in favour of accepting an offer from the company with a roughly two...Read More
Non-profit organization Geoscience BC is planning a new airborne survey to help identify mineral potential on northern Vancouver Island, in the western Canadian province of British Columbia.According to the NGO, every time its team runs projects like this one, new investment comes into the region at hand as the data is used to inform mineral exploration and development decisions by the mining sect...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsThe two companies entered into a partnership for the project in December 2015 following a bilateral government agreement. The deposit has a resource of 982 million tonnes grading 0.89% copper and 0.04% molybdenum.A ceremony for the creation of a limited company for the JV was attended by Ecua...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsWith more than US$100 million spent on exploration since the acquisition, the company has doubled the resource base at the mine.Read More
Following this week's efforts by Peruvian authorities to mediate in a 2-month long conflict, Minera Las Bambas issued a statement saying that management is willing to look for a consensual solution with the community blocking their activities in the southern-central region of Apur?-mac.Las Bambas is a joint venture project between MMG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China's Guoxin International Inve...Read More
Chilean state miner Codelco produced slightly less copper in 2018 than the year before, the company reported on Friday, as it continued to contend with declining ore grades and rising costs at its aging mines.Chief Executive Nelson Pizarro said the company produced 1.678 million tonnes of copper at its own mines in 2018, down 3.3 percent from the previous year, and a total of 1.806 million tonnes,...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsCompany management believes that by proceeding with early works and financing activities in parallel, it can seek board approval to commence Rosemont construction by the end of 2019.Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsAn updated technical report said the company planned to expand the project from 85 million tonnes per year to 100Mtpy from 2023. The expanded throughput involves the earlier development of the adjacent Colina pit, the addition of a ninth mill, an expanded mining equipment fleet, additional co...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsThe company aims to leverage the "structural investments" it is making via the New Mine Level project that will start operation in 2023 to ensure the mine has decades more life while maintaining current production levels. A new round of investments is being studied to both increase production...Read More