Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsThe plan defines the project scope and how the company will operate the US$1.9 billion copper-molybdenum-silver openpit project on the eastern slope of the Santa Rita mountains southeast of Tucson.When completed, the mine is expected to produce 127,000 tonnes per annum of copper concentr...Read More
Defense Metals (TSV-V: DEFN) / (OTCQB: DFMTF) is a great name. The Company is defending against Chinese dominance of Rare Earth Elements ("REEs"), and Defense Departments require select REEs to defend their countries! Several REEs are very difficult or impossible to replace in critical applications, yet enable products essential to modern civilization. Any company outside of China that can reliab...Read More
The world's largest miner BHP (ASX, NYSE:BHP) took a key step this week towards increasing its presence in Ecuador, the new darling of copper prospectors, by signing an earn-in and joint venture deal with Canada's Luminex Resources (TSX-V:LR).The Vancouver-based miner, which has already enlisted big names such as Anglo American and First Quantum for its other three Ecuadorian assets, has given BH...Read More
Up to 20% of the DRC's cobalt is mined by hand, often by children with picks and shovel. (Image: Screenshot from Congo Cobalt MinesVideo | YouTube.)Human rights advocate Amnesty International has accused the electric vehicle (EV) industry of selling itself as environmentally friendly, while most of the batteries they produce use polluting fossil fuels and unethically sourced minerals.In a report...Read More
Alkane maps own path to world-class critical metals producerSPONSOREDalkane resourcesWestern Atlas drill-ready in NunavutSPONSOREDwestern atlas resources"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftSocial opposition remains key industry hurdle in ColombiaSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftBenchmark Mineral Intelligence China analyst Albert Li m...Read More
Alkane maps own path to world-class critical metals producerSPONSOREDalkane resourcesWestern Atlas drill-ready in NunavutSPONSOREDwestern atlas resources"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftSocial opposition remains key industry hurdle in ColombiaSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftHeadline returns for the mining sector over the past eig...Read More
Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadership"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftGlobal Atomic's 'transformational discovery' changes everythingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpIt reported a 32m intercept at the Gamlegruve workings area grading...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsBack in 2010 a moratorium on new exploration licences effectively shut out explorers wanting to gain access to Mongolia's highly prospective geology.Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsResponding to media speculation in relation to the deal, Aeris said the consideration comprised $525 million cash and $50 million of shares.The cash component could involve $250-$300 million of debt and equity of $185-$240 million, with a potential silver stream of $35-$40 million also in the...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsBut the obvious resources have largely been picked clean and now the hunt for tonnage takes explorers to (mostly) former conflict zones, remote deserts and deep underground.Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsThe holes, drilled 500m apart, show that the high-sulphidation epithermal deposit forming the bulk of the mineral resource which supports the project pre-feasibility study (PFS) is underlain by porphyry copper-gold mineralisation to depths of over 1,000m below surface."These two holes confirm...Read More
1. The latest U.S. central bank announcement was a win-win for gold.2. If the Fed surprised analysts and hiked rates, the stock market probably crashes, and gold stocks rally strongly.3. As expected, the Fed did nothing and gold stocks outperformed.4. It's a clear win-win situation for gold bugs around the world.5. I'm adamant that the U.S. stock market would already look somewhat akin to the 1929...Read More
Montreal-based Champion Iron has excellent results from its 9,350-metre drill program last fall on its Powderhorn property located in north-central Newfoundland, 40 km southwest of Springdale. The results come from both a copper-rich and a zinc-rich zone.Results from the copper zone include:Hole PH18-16: 0.89% copper, 1.1 g/t gold, 13.9 g/t silver and 0.09% zinc over 3.92 metres. The best intersec...Read More
Imperial Metals' (TSX:III) stock rocketed 62% last week over a two-day period on the news that Australia's Newcrest Mining (ASX:NCM) is taking a $1.1 billion stake in the company's Red Chris copper-gold mine - a price that has shocked investors and observers.The copper-gold mining company's stock shot from C$1.98 per share on March 8 to $3.20 per share on March 11. On Wednesday it was trading at $...Read More
Zinc prices climbed to $2,845 a tonne on Wednesday after data showed LME warehouses now hold little over 58,000 tonnes of the metal; less than two days' worth of global consumption.Inventories are down 55% this year and are on course to arrive at levels last seen in 1990. Zinc stocks peaked in 2012 at the height of the commodities boom, reaching 1.2 million tonnes.Inventories held by the Shanghai...Read More
Energy and resources open innovation platform Unearthed joined forces with Adelaide-based OZ Minerals to launch the Explorer Challenge, a competition that brings together data scientists, geoscientists and mining professionals to create machine learning-based mining solutions.Competitors who achieve the goal of predicting the next big mineral deposit in South Australia using real geoscientific dat...Read More
Australian copper junior Aeris Resources (ASX: AIS) revealed on Wednesday that it had offered miner and commodities trader Glencore (LON: GLEN) $575 million for its CSA copper operation.Aeris said negotiations to buy the mine were at a late stage, adding that the offer consisted of $525 million in cash, $50 million in the company's shares and a royalty payable to Glencore.Aeris Resources' outsized...Read More
Alkane maps own path to world-class critical metals producerSPONSOREDalkane resourcesWestern Atlas drill-ready in NunavutSPONSOREDwestern atlas resources"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftSocial opposition remains key industry hurdle in ColombiaSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftIt's been some years since I have been to the far east o...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsModern mining had barely scratched the surface of the significant mineral endowment held in this developing region, a recent PDAC 2019 forum heard.Read More
In recent weeks we noted the bullish outlook for the stock market.Friday the S&P 500 as well as ACWX (global equity ETF ex US stocks) closed above resistance and made higher highs.Not surprisingly, as US and global equities have avoided a bear market (for the time being), precious metals have weakened. It's not a surprise that as Gold failed to breakout both the S&P 500 and global equities...Read More