Copper Stocks Articles

Trilogy and South32 form Ambler JV

12 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesSouth32 exercised its option to acquire a 50% interest in December 2019. Trilogy contributed all its UKMP assets—some 172,675 hectares—to the JV while South32 contributed US$145 million.Read More

Ivanhoe reports contractor fatality

11 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesIvanhoe said the person passed away due to fat embolism syndrome causing severe brain damage, following a broken bone incurred in the accident which had involved a contractor-operated underground vehicle at the Kakula mine.The company had reported the first fatality at the Kamoa-Kakula project in September, involving a civil contra...Read More

Copper miner rejigs its farm-in arrangements

11 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Cardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Exore excels in Cote d'IvoireSPONSOREDexore resourcesCase study: platform financeSPONSOREDminexiaThe copper producer will withdraw from White Rock Minerals' Red Mountain zinc project in Alaska, after having spent A$8.5 million on explorat...Read More

Corona & Debt: A Twin Virus Horror

Feb 11, 2020 / Stewart Thomson

To view the only virus more concerning than Corona, please click here now. The global government debt virus!In America, the government's debt to GDP ratio is now three times the level it was when Ronald Reagan got elected. Simply put, Donald Trump doesn't have the wiggle room that "Jellybean Ron" did... to ramp up debt, produce GDP growth with that debt, and then claim all the growth came fro...Read More

Investors remain reluctant to bet on Baimskaya

10 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesPrevious feasibility work on Baimskaya suggests copper production of 250,000tpa and 400,000 ounces of gold per annum is on the cards - or 330,000tpa copper equivalent - which is an improvement of moreRead More

Declining grades impact Chile copper output

10 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesState copper company Codelco, the grand dame of copper producers, is increasingly showing the signs of age as production fell 5.6% in 2019 to 1.Read More

The widening gap between Barrick and Newmont

10 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Cardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Exore excels in Cote d'IvoireSPONSOREDexore resourcesCase study: platform financeSPONSOREDminexiaThe same questions were asked here last November when it was pointed out that while Barrick had performed well since it merged with Randgold...Read More

Mantos Copper sells 30% of Mantoverde to Mitsubishi

07 February 2020 / Paul Harris

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesMitsubishi will contribute $263 million as a capital subscription into Mantoverde which will be used for the MVDP Mantoverde development project, and pay $20 million in cash upon the completion of specific milestonesMVDP is a $731 million brownfield project in the Atacama region which contemplates building a copper concentrator to...Read More

Big Silver-Stock Potential

Feb7, 2020 / Adam Hamilton

The silver miners' stocks are looking interesting. While they really lagged silver's surge on gold's bull-market-breakout rally last summer, their upleg since remains intact. Gold stocks' own upleg peaked in early September. And silver itself remains wildly undervalued relative to gold, overdue to mean revert dramatically higher. When that happens during gold's next upleg, the silver stocks have b...Read More

Gold miners miss the point

06 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Cardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Exore excels in Cote d'IvoireSPONSOREDexore resourcesCase study: platform financeSPONSOREDminexiaLast week's ‘From the Capital' column recounted efforts by Tom Palmer, the head of leading gold miner Newmont Corporation, to broaden t...Read More

Letters from Indaba

06 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Cardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Exore excels in Cote d'IvoireSPONSOREDexore resourcesCase study: platform financeSPONSOREDminexiaWhile the pace was certainly lively and the stamina of certain press members truly remarkable, the buzz around the city was more than enough...Read More

Kutcho advancing towards production decision

06 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesThe copper-zinc project has a measured and indicated 17.26 million tonne resource at 2.61% copper-equivalent and a 10.71Mt inferred resource at 1.67% Cu-eq. Kutcho said metallurgical results last year had improved on the copper and zinc recoveries compared with a 2017 prefeasibility study and the silver recovery also improved....Read More

WoodMac analysis sees high sulphuric acid inventories as the biggest threat to smelter production

06 February 2020 / Henry Lazenby

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesWoodMac's best case scenario is that demand from this sector would be delayed to later this year. "As a result, we believe that there is now a significant downside risk to our forecast of 0.9% Chinese total copper consumption growth for 2020."China accounted for about 47% of the total global copper consumption in 2019.Artemis all s...Read More

Rio's reverse factoring payment palaver inexcusable

05 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Cardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Exore excels in Cote d'IvoireSPONSOREDexore resourcesCase study: platform financeSPONSOREDminexiaWell it's done. For better or for worse, we have cut the ties, severed the apron strings, waved a fond farewell and ventured out into the dar...Read More

Glencore looks to future in DRC amid lower copper output

05 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesGlencore announced it had appointed former China Molybdenum International CEO Kalidas Madhavpeddi as an independent non-executive director, with chairman Tony Hayward saying the company looking forward to benefitting from his experience and insights, which included substantial business dealings in the DRC.The company maintained its...Read More

PNG island prizes tempting again

05 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Cardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesOn one island is the big but abandoned Panguna copper and gold mine closed prematurely by an arm of Rio Tinto in 1989.Read More

Ivanhoe chief unveils more mind-boggling figures from Kamoa-Kakula.

05 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesThe updated mineral resource estimate (MRE) puts the combined Kamoa-Kakula project at 423 million tonnes grading 4.68% copper, at a 3% cut off. At a 1% cut off, the resource figure jumps to 1.Read More

Bristow's copper takeover plot misfires

04 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Cardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Exore excels in Cote d'IvoireSPONSOREDexore resourcesCase study: platform financeSPONSOREDminexiaFor Barrick's shareholders, it's a hot topic, and no wonder, following Bristow's informal tilt some weeks ago at copper giant Freeport McMora...Read More

QB2 expansion to be 50%-powered by renewable energy

04 February 2020 / Staff reporter

Cardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Exore excels in Cote d'IvoireSPONSOREDexore resourcesCase study: platform financeSPONSOREDminexia"Setting the objective to be carbon neutral by 2050 is an important step forward in our commitment to reducing emissions and taking action on...Read More

Could 2020 market trends bring new lustre to gloomy lead market?

04 February 2020 / Staff reporter

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.2020 will see lead transition into a market surplus after several years of significant deficit, according to Wood Mackenzie.Despite total exchange stocks of refined metal remaining near historical lows, softening demand has damaged se...Read More

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