The company has continued to build on its solid reputation, working for emerging miners to contractors and industry majors, with a past and present client list including Barrick Gold, Goldfields and Rio Tinto.Among the company's success stories are a 19% productivity improvement on all excavators at an Indonesian coal mine, a 23% increase in development rates at an Australian underground coal mine...Read More
Pancontinental Resources (TSXV: PUC) entered into a binding letter of intent with Pelangio Exploration (TSXV: PX) to acquire up to a 75% interest in the Strachan Ni-Co-Cu project, located 65 kilometres northwest of Timmins, Ontario.Strachan covers 2,280 hectares within the Montcalm Greenstone Belt and sits approximately 5 kilometres south of Pancon's Gambler project, 10 kilometres east of Pancon's...Read More
Chile's President Sebasti??n Pi??era announced this week the appointment of Robert Mayne-Nicholls as the new Vice President of the National Mining Company, known for its initials in Spanish Enami.Enami is the state-owned mining development corporation that supports small and medium-sized mines with technical and financial support and by buying and processing their mineral. Up until December 2018,...Read More
PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25Tabeart, the former senior WMC executive who's headed PolarX for the past 18 months, is confident investors will get a higher definition view of the upside at Alaska Range in the coming months as the company adds high-value data to its exploration and resour...Read More
Markets went into a tailspin in the second half of 2018. File image.Private capital tracker Preqin says in an update that contrary to expectations, 2018 was another bumper year for the industry, particularly for natural resources investments.Fundraising by unlisted funds for investment in natural resources - oil and gas, timberland, farmland, water and mines - set a fresh record in 2018 and is lik...Read More
Glencore Plc tightened its grip on Katanga Mining Ltd. by appointing new executives and entering a management services contract to run its troubled Congo copper and cobalt unit.The head of the commodity trader's African copper business, Danny Callow, has been made chief executive officer of Katanga, while Glencore's head of strategy Paul Smith was appointed chief financial officer of the unit.Key...Read More
Jiangxi Copper Co, one of China's top copper producers, on Friday named provincial government official Zheng Gaoqing as its new general manager.The appointment, confirmed at a board meeting during the day, marks the end of a six-month void in Jiangxi Copper's management team following the departure of company veteran Wu Yuneng in July last year.Zheng, in his early 50s, joins Jiangxi Copper from th...Read More
Oyu Tolgoi is expected to produce 125,000 to 155,000 tonnes of copper and 180,000 to 220,000 ounces of gold in concentrates this year, Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) reports.Last year the Mongolian copper-gold mine produced 159,100 tonnes of copper, up 1.1% from 2017, and 285,000 ounces of gold, up 150% from 2017.The government of Mongolia owns 34 percent of Oyu Tolgoi with the r...Read More
China Molybdenum, which bought the giant Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mine from Freeport-McMoRan in 2016, is buying a holding company for $1.14 billion that will give it an 80%-stake in Democratic Republic of Congo's operation.The Chinese miner, which has spent almost $5 billion in the past two years on an acquisition rampage, said it had agreed to buy BHR Newwood DRC Holdings Ltd, a holdin...Read More
Following a mapping and prospecting campaign in conjunction with a grid-based soil sampling program and follow-up rock channel sampling, Carube Copper (TSXV: CUC) reported the discovery of high-grade copper-silver mineralization at its Main Ridge Project in Jamaica.Known for its initials MR, the project covers 30 square kilometres of the island country's south-central region, an area where the Spa...Read More
Likely Shadary win in DR Congo threatens further squeeze on miners' profitsSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesRhyolite Ridge PFS beats expectationsSPONSOREDioneerElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25Pilbara iron ore shipments for 2018 came in at 338.2 million tonnes, 2% higher than 2017 and at the upper en...Read More
Likely Shadary win in DR Congo threatens further squeeze on miners' profitsSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesRhyolite Ridge PFS beats expectationsSPONSOREDioneerElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25Fearful about the prospects for my own mortality, I was compulsively drawn to a recent ‘View from the...Read More
Chile's Cochilco state copper commission on Thursday maintained its average price prediction of $3.05 per pound for 2019, rising to $3.08 for 2020, amid the continuing U.S.-China trade war and further potential volatility because of Brexit.Cochilco said it saw production at 5.941 million tonnes for 2019, up 1.6 percent from 5.845 million in 2018, and a 227,000 tonne deficit in the global market fo...Read More
Cornish Lithium, a start-up hoping to lead the development of an industry for the battery metal in the UK, has secured a further ?1 million (about $1.3 million) from its existing investors, which will allow the firm to expand its ongoing drilling work in the ancient mining region of Cornwall, in south-west England.A year ago, the company said it needed about ?5 million to develop its project, w...Read More
Northern Superior Resources (TSX-V: SUP) issued a press release this week stating that it is ready to move forward with both its TPK gold-silver-copper project located in northwestern Ontario and its Lac Surprise gold project located in Quebec.The Sudbury-based company said it expects to start drilling at the Ti-pa-haa-kaa-ning property, known for its initials TPK, by mid-February, following the c...Read More
Mahenge the Cinderella of the graphite space?SPONSOREDblack rock miningSky is the limit for BSK at Amarillo GrandeSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumNew Energy brings experience to new dawnSPONSOREDnew energy mineralsSustained investment in people a big plus for consultancySPONSOREDbyrnecutAfter a prolonged bear market, Fitch analysts said they expected stronger industry investment to continue, supported by...Read More
PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedThe company, which produces copper concentrates from fresh and historic tailings at Codelco's El Teniente mine, said it set new production records in 2018 at Minera Valle Central.Read More
PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedThe majority investor, which had in recent months bolstered its Hudbay position to 11.9%, said it was embarking on its first proxy fight to address Hudbay's chronic underperformance.Read More
Analysts at Fitch Solutions are feeling bullish from spot levels on nickel, lead, copper, tin and gold over 2019, but are bearish on iron and coal, according to new reports on mining the Americas.The outlook for Americas mining remains positive over the coming years, but miners will face challenges from tension over water usage from local communities if El Ni??o strikes and political uncertainty s...Read More
MineHub Technologies and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a collaboration to use blockchain technology to help improve operational efficiencies, logistics and financing and reduce costs in the high-value mineral concentrates supply chain - from mine to end buyer.Goldcorp Inc. (TSX: G), ING Bank (NASD: ING), Kutcho Copper Corp. (TSXV: KC), Ocean Partners USA Inc. and Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. (T...Read More