Canada's mining sector is going through dramatic change, but the industry remains bullish on growth, KPMG International's latest Global Mining Risk Report finds.While recent merger and acquisition transactions have raised concerns about the future of Canada's mining sector, domestic firms remain optimistic about growth opportunities. Canadian stock exchanges are the global leader in mining financ...Read More
If you're wondering why London Metal Exchange (LME) stocks of metals such as copper and zinc are so low, part of the answer lies with the current strength of Chinese imports.LME copper stocks, excluding metal awaiting load-out, currently total a meagre 21,600 tonnes, the lowest since 2005.There are just 52,650 tonnes of "live" LME zinc stocks, a level not seen this century.Lead can be added to the...Read More
Aurubis AG, Europe's biggest copper smelter, is still seeking growth via acquisitions, CEO Juergen Schachler said on Thursday."As a practically debt-free company we possess a comfortable financial scope," Schachler told shareholders in Hamburg."But we intend to undertake small or medium-sized acquisitions rather than a large transaction."Schachler repeated a previous forecast for the 2018/19 finan...Read More
On the one year anniversary of the signing of the Peru-Australia Free Trade Agreement (PAFTA), the Minerals Council of Australia issued a statement saying that the ratification of the deal is expected to deliver major investment and job opportunities for Australia's mining industry."Under PAFTA, Peru will eliminate 99.4% of its tariffs, including on valuable Australian resources such as iron ore,...Read More
Golden Share Resources (TSXV: GSH) announced this week that it has acquired the Sandridge project through map staking.The project is located approximately 150 kilometres east of Thunder Bay, in eastern Canada, and it sits on the Winston Lake Greenstone Belt, known by its initials WLGB.This is not Golden Share's first incursion in the area. The Ontario-based firm previously held the past-producing...Read More
Bezant buzz builds around big projectsSPONSOREDbezant resourcesWhite Gold Corp a major force in Yukon as exploration drive reaps dividendsSPONSOREDwhite gold corpQuality emerges at Galan's blue-chip lithium addressSPONSOREDgalan lithium"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftUranium related investments should be less risky tha...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxThe company's exploration team has been working at Winu, 130km north of Telfer, since late 2017.Read More
Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipQuality emerges at Galan's blue-chip lithium addressSPONSOREDgalan lithium"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftThe intercept from the Sherlock zone also contained 2.1g/t silver and included 8m at 0.64% c...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxThe obvious challenge for Australian-listed Xanadu is that it is exploring in Mongolia, a country with a reputation for making life difficult for foreign mining companies, as Rio Tinto has discoveredRead More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxWater shortages at the copper-gold mine were among the impacts on the company's 2018 earnings, which Centerra revealed last week were about 50% lower than in 2017.Read More
Back in 2013 I recall having a bearish view on the stock market due to extremely bullish sentiment readings. The market completely ignored that, made a major breakout through 13 year resistance and continued running for years.Lesson learned.Turning to Gold, we find something similar during major breakouts in 2005, 2007 and 2009. In the chart below we plot Gold along with its net speculative positi...Read More
Queensland Rail had stowed a train carrying copper, lead and zinc concentrate from Glencore's operations in the Australian state on 31 January as a precautionary measure.That was not sufficient to protect the 80-wagon Mount Isa train after historic rainfall of as much as 1.16 meters by February 7 near Townsville, where Glencore's copper refinery servicing its Mount Isa Mines is located.According t...Read More
BHP Group Ltd, the world's biggest miner, announced a raft of management changes on Thursday, in line with its "transformation agenda" led by Chief Executive Andrew Mackenzie.The executive-level changes at BHP include the appointment of a chief commercial officer and the resignation of its president of petroleum operations.Mackenzie late last year set up a so-called transformation office that repo...Read More
The Chilean government will actively be seeking investors for 25 new mining projects when it attends the PDAC Convention in Toronto next week. The projects, which include the mining of a variety of metals including copper, gold, lithium and cobalt, will represent an investment of $500 million and are estimated to lead to 1,500 new jobs in the construction phase alone.Chile's Minister of Mining, Ba...Read More
* U.N. meeting in Jamaica to work on deep sea mining law* China holds most licences, Belgium has technological edge* DeepGreen has partnership with Denmark's Maersk* DEME unit Global Sea Mineral Resources tests technologyBelgian group DEME and Canada's DeepGreen are carrying out tests and research to collect nodules containing copper, cobalt and other minerals from the ocean floor, as a race to mi...Read More
Chile's Codelco, the world's No. 1 copper producer, plans to kick off underground operations at its century-old Chquicamata mine by mid-year, chairman Juan Benavides said Wednesday.The $4.9 billion-switch, part of Codelco's 10-year, $39 billion-overhaul of its core mines, is expected to extend the mine's life by at least 40 years. This will allow the copper giant keep production rates, despite f...Read More
Exyn Technologies and Dundee Precious Metals (TSX:DPM) announced this week that they have joined forces to automate the latter's underground gold mining operations.The first step to achieving such a goal was that Exyn's Autonomy Aerial Robots or A3Rs were made commercially available, a development that took place in the past days.According to the tech company, A3Rs comprise a fully autonomous aeri...Read More
Rio Tinto's (ASX, LON:RIO) investors will be celebrating Christmas in February, as the miner is giving them a $4 billion special dividend, or $2.43 cent a share, after posting its highest annual underlying earnings since 2014.The world's second largest miner reported Wednesday a 2% increase in underlying profit, up to $8.8 billion, beating market forecasts of $8.5 billion on the back of rising rev...Read More
Mining giant Rio Tinto's (ASX, LON:RIO) relentless search for a major copper deposit may have finally paid off as it announced it had made a promising find at its Winu prospect in Western Australia."It is early days and we have more work to do, but the initial results from drilling are pretty encouraging," Chief Executive Jean-S?(C)bastien Jacques said on Wednesday, after Rio posted its highest an...Read More
Endomines' golden opportunities to growSPONSOREDendomines"This number responds to the downward trend since 2014, since when the majority of projects have been suspended. [It is] a challenge to reverse this condition," said executive vice president Manuel José Fernández.The 2018 study shows a slight increase in the number of projects compared with the 294 recorded in 2017. Copper...Read More