Several weeks ago we wrote about the downside risk in the gold stocks.After the various gold stock indices formed distribution-type tops, the subsequent selling has been swift. Miners have plunged through moving averages and short-term breadth indicators quickly reached oversold extremes.While the gold stocks are oversold, it could be a little while before we can expect a sustained rebound.We plot...Read More
Global car market is at a crossroads. Image courtesy of Velovotee, Creative Commons.Battery metals tracker Adamas Intelligence says that in March 2019, battery capacity deployed worldwide in battery electric cars (including hybrids) nearly doubled from the same month last year.The Dutch-Canadian research company, which tracks EV registrations and battery chemistries in more than 80 countries,...Read More
Vancouver-based EnGold Mines has successfully extended the high grade gold-bearing quartz veins at its Lac La Hache property in the Cariboo region. The veins include a series of narrow, quartz-carbonate, gold-silver sulphide veins in several new showings chosen after follow-up to the 2018 soil geochemical results. The seven hole, 463-metre drill program extended the Main vein to 180 metres total s...Read More
Base metals have had a shaky start to 2019, with a cautious first-quarter advance giving way to an April drop on uncertainty about the global economy and the impact Chinese stimulus will have on consumption.Clouding the outlook are mixed signals on world growth. China's first official gauge of the manufacturing sector fell in April, indicating that more may be needed to bed down the economic stabi...Read More
The Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKEX) plans to launch dollar-denominated mini contracts for six base metals in the coming months, the head of market development at the London Metal Exchange (LME) said on Monday. The standardised monthly futures contracts will reference LME prices and are being launched to "broaden access in the region for LME priced contracts", Robin Martin told an industry event...Read More
A coalition of businesses, environmental advocates and outdoor recreation groups in the state of Minnesota, U.S., have gone to court challenging a Trump administration's decision that opened the door to a copper, nickel and platinum project in a wilderness area.Chilean miner Antofagasta (LON:ANTO), through its subsidiary Twin Metals, is in the midst of carrying out a feasibility study for the p...Read More
Chile's Codelco, the world's No. 1 copper producer, made headlines recently not for its production of the red metal but for putting an end to a centenary tradition.For decades, the National Copper Corporation gave away expensive gold watches to workers that have been with the company for over 30 years. But the practice came to an end in 2019.According to the local press and the agency AFP, when th...Read More
Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipWhite Gold Corp a force in Yukon as exploration drive reaps dividendsSPONSOREDwhite gold corpWill Indonesia abandon its plan to ban bauxite exports?SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftThe latest assay highlights from 10 holes at the Kamoa North bonanza zone include 13.6m at 18.48% copper...Read More
These record U.S. stock-market levels are very dangerous, riddled with extreme levels of euphoria and complacency. Largely thanks to the Fed, traders are convinced stocks can rally indefinitely. But stock prices are very expensive relative to underlying corporate earnings, with valuations back up near bubble levels. These are classic topping signs, with profits growth stalling and the Fed out of e...Read More
White Gold Corp a force in Yukon as exploration drive reaps dividendsSPONSOREDwhite gold corpWill Indonesia abandon its plan to ban bauxite exports?SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftQuality emerges at Galan's blue-chip lithium addressSPONSOREDgalan lithiumAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsIt's remarkable how often over the past 15 years the debt advisory team at Noah's...Read More
Following a two-month blockade that ended in mid-April, negotiations are still ongoing between Peruvian authorities, the community of Nueva Fuerabamba and Minera Las Bambas, a joint venture project between MMG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China's Guoxin International Investment, and CITIC Metal Co. Ltd.On May 6 and 7, a new meeting is to be held as the community is pushing for two bills before Co...Read More
Zambia will pay off all outstanding legitimate VAT refunds, but plans to press ahead with a new non-refundable sales tax despite criticism from some businesses as it strives to cut debt, its finance minister said on Friday.The proposed tax change in Africa's second biggest copper producing nation has upset the mining community, which has said the country is deterring new investment it desperately...Read More
Sweden's Boliden on Friday reported first-quarter core earnings slightly above analysts forecasts, and said production in the quarter had been stable both in its mines and its smelters.Operating profit, excluding revaluation of process inventory, fell to 2.05 billion Swedish crowns from 2.72 billion a year earlier, beating the 1.99 billion seen by analysts in a Reuters poll."The period can be summ...Read More
Companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo will have to ensure subcontractors they hire are domestically owned under rules being implemented by the government.The requirement adds to the raft of new measures mining companies have had to contend with over the past year, after the state in March 2018 raised taxes and other costs. Investors including Glencore Plc, Randgold Resources Ltd., China Mo...Read More
It's been a bad week for Doctor Copper.London Metal Exchange (LME) copper slumped 3% on Wednesday and has slid further to a three-month low of $6,150 per tonne, last trading at $6,180.True, the move took place in something of a liquidity black hole with China and much of Europe on holiday this week, leaving the market prey to automated funds, which have been momentum-trading a rapidly deterioratin...Read More
Mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO) is ramping up exploration at its Winu discovery in Western Australia, which could be the company's next major copper project.Speaking at conference in Sydney this week, group executive of growth and innovation Stephen McIntosh said the company's main goal for now is to determine whether Winu was a "Rio Tinto scale" project.The copper-gold-silver discovery, a p...Read More
While demand for electric vehicles (EVs) continues to soar, investment in companies mining for the so-called battery metals is lagging far behind, which may trigger an upcoming global shortage of those minerals, a Tesla executive has warned.The EVs manufacturer pioneer, Reuters reports, has also said it believed that prices for key elements in the making of rechargeable batteries, including cobal...Read More
Canada's Hudbay Minerals' (TSX, NYSE: HBM) has settled a long-dragged out boardroom battle with its second-largest investor, Waterton Global Resource Management, which had been pushing for replacing the miner's chief executive officer and overhaul the board.The announcement comes two weeks after Waterton, which holds about 12% of Hudbay, filed a lawsuit against the base metals producer, in a bid...Read More
Altech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsIt processed 364,176 tonnes of ore through the Nugget Pond copper and gold milling facility at a feed grade of 1.24% copper and 0.57g/t gold.Read More
Altech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsExploration spend over the past 10 years totalled US$25.8 billion, well above the $15.4 billion allocated from 1990 to 2008. Yet, that spend yielded 102.4 million tonnes of copper in 21 major discoveries, compared with 992.5Mt in 199 discoveries in the preceding 19 years."Even after adjusting for copper in recently identified deposi...Read More