Image of Mount St. Helens by Ewen Roberts, via Flickr Creative Commons license. The U.S. Forest Service signed off on exploration for copper, gold and other minerals on 900 federal acres that lie just outside the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument in Southwest Washington.Read moreRead More
Image: ShutterstockCopper and base metals markets are having terrible week, but the rally in the price of cobalt shows no signs of fizzling out. The metal quoted on the LME rose to a fresh 9-year peak of $81,500 a tonne yesterday, a 147% surge since the beginning of 2017.Lithium carbonate prices began its run up two years ago, going from $6,100 per tonne to average $23,350 so far this year on hop...Read More
SHANGHAI, Feb 9 (SMM) –Copper: Stock market slump, lower crude oil prices, and a surge in LME copper inventory gave shorts more confidence overnight. We expect LME copper to trade at $6,810-6,880/mt today and SHFE copper at 51,700-52,200 yuan/mt. Weak fundamentals may lead spot premiums lower to 30-40 yuan/mt today.Aluminium: We expect LME aluminium to trade rangebound at $2,158-2,193/mt wit...Read More
The unnaturally-tranquil stock markets suddenly plunged over this past week. Volatility skyrocketed out of the blue and shattered years of artificial calm conjured by extreme central-bank distortions. This was a huge shock to the legions of hyper-complacent traders, who are realizing stocks don't rally forever. With stock selling unleashed again, herd psychology will start shifting back to b...Read More
Independent Investment Research has published a detailed research report on PolarX's Alaska Range Project which provides an in-depth analysis of the Company and its core project.For further details, click here to access the full report. Read More
A former millwright with Copper Mountain Mining Corp. (TSX:CMMC) is suing the company for wrongful dismissal, claiming he and others labelled "union sympathizers" were harassed and bullied in a "highly poisonous work environment."Plaintiff Gordon MacMillan filed a notice of civil claim in BC Supreme Court on January 19. He claims he was constructively dismissed in November 2017 after six years wit...Read More
CAPE TOWN, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Mining is a long-term game, but in southern Africa dramatic political changes have transformed the investment mood for the better in the space of a year.Angola's Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe stepped down in 2017 after a combined 75 years in office, while the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as head of South Africa's ruling ANC heralds the looming end...Read More
The price of copper regained its footing and iron ore prices continued the climb on Thursday after customs data showed imports of raw materials by China stayed robust in January after a strong 2017.In brisk trading New York Comex copper for delivery in March were flat compared to Wednesday settlement price trading at $3.0855 a pound ($6,802 per tonne). Copper is still down sharply for the week aft...Read More
DENVER, /CSRwire/ - Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM) (Newmont or the Company) has been recognized for top performance in the mining sector in The Sustainability Yearbook 2018. The Yearbook is published by RobecoSAM, a sustainability investment firm that manages one of the most comprehensive databases of financially material sustainability information in the world. RobecoSAM's assessment...Read More
Canadian billionaire Robert Friedland, founder and executive chairman of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN), has joined the debate over the Democratic Republic of Congo's imminent hike to mining taxes by saying his company would pay higher royalties and taxes, but only if that money benefits locals.The Vancouver-based company, which is developing the Kamoa-Kakula copper deposit in the Central African nation...Read More
Investors sold off copper on Wednesday as the US dollar strengthened and equity and bond market volatility spilled over onto commodity markets.Comex copper plunged more than 3% to a low of $3.085 a pound ($6,800 per tonne) in New York, an eight-week low. Volumes were particularly heavy, with more than 185,000 lots worth some $14.3 billion traded by the close. After a 30% jump in 2017, copper ha...Read More
(Bloomberg) - The Democratic Republic of Congo tried to strike a more conciliatory tone Wednesday after a week of increasingly heated exchanges between Africa's top copper producer and some of its largest foreign investors.Mining companies are furiously lobbying the government to roll back a reformed mining law passed last month by Congo's parliament with last-minute changes that will financially...Read More
Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE:RIO), the world's No.2 mining company, showed investors Wednesday how well it has ridden the wave of higher commodity prices by announcing a record dividend on the back of a big surge in annual profit and its cost cutting drive.Bumper results came on the back of a recovery in the price of key commodities for Rio Tinto, including iron ore, aluminum and copper.The company,...Read More
By Andy Home, columnist for Reuters.Tesla, the pioneer of the electric vehicle revolution, is turning to Chile to secure the lithium it needs to power its mass production drive.Tesla and Chilean lithium producer SQM are "exploring" opportunities after the automotive company expressed interest in buying "important volumes" of the battery ingredient, according to Eduardo Bitran, head of Chilean deve...Read More
Two miners have died after a section of Sibanye-Stillwater's (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) Kloof gold operation in South Africa collapsed on Wednesday, about a week after more that 1,000 workers were trapped underground at another of the company's mines in the country.Sibanye-Stillwater has suspended production at the affected area pending an investigation into the incident with the participation of the...Read More
by Andrew Topf50M+ ounce Walker Lane Trend While most gold investors are familiar with the Carlin Trend - the largest gold-producing region in the United States - there are other, less explored parts of Nevada starting to attract a lot of attention. Specifically, the Walker Lane Gold Belt where company-making discoveries are being drilled. Located in southern Nevada, Walker Lane has some of the mo...Read More
Cyril Ramaphosa isn't even president yet and mining companies are already changing their tune on South Africa.A former mine union leader and now one of the wealthiest black South Africans, the new leader of the ruling African National Congress is seen as more willing to negotiate investor-friendly policy, according to executives attending the African Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town this week...Read More
Chile's economy is poised to improve by mid-year as rebounding copper prices and President-elect Sebastian Pinera's promise of business-friendly policies increase optimism among investors, according to a central bank survey released on Tuesday.The study, which surveyed the perceptions of more than 200 business owners and managers throughout Chile, found that many of those interviewed had launched...Read More
CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Copper Fox Metals Inc. (“Copper Fox” or the “Company”) (TSX-V:CUU) (OTC:CPFXF) is pleased to provide its shareholders an outline of the 2018 program for the Schaft Creek copper-gold-molybdenum project located in northwestern British Columbia. The Schaft Creek project is managed through the Schaft Creek Joint Venture...Read More
The rebranding included renaming its project from Wellgreen to Nickel Shäw, a choice that recognises its partnership, commitment and close community ties with the Kluane First Nation as well as the fact that nickel is a fundamentally important part of the project. In the Southern Tutchone Kluane language, Shäw means big, and so the project—that hosts a measured and indicated resour...Read More