Canada's Barrick Gold (TSX, NYSE:ABX), the world's largest producer of the precious metal by output, swung to a loss in the first three months of the year, as asset sales impacted production and realized gold prices fell.The Toronto-based miner, however, reported quite a progress in terms of cutting its debt and reducing costs, trimmed debt by US$842 million since January. The figure puts Barrick...Read More
Canada's Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD) (NYSE:EGO) has signed an agreement to sell its 82% stake in the Jinfeng mine in China to a wholly-owned subsidiary of China National Gold Group for US$300 million in cash.The Jinfeng mine is expected to generate 95,000-105,000 ounces of gold this year, as the operation transitions fully into the underground.The company's president and CEO Paul Wright said China N...Read More
Nevsun Resources Ltd. (TSX:NSU) has acquired Reservoir Minerals Inc. in a deal worth US$365 million, the companies announced April 24.The consolidation of the two Vancouver-based companies has created a 100% ownership in the upper zone of the Timok Copper Project in Serbia, which had previously been owned by Reservoir and Freeport McMoRan Inc. As well, the combined company will fully own the cash-...Read More
European stocks ended trade in the red on Monday, amid weak sentiment across the globe, as a sharp decline in mining stocks weighed on the wider benchmarks.Miners slumpSymbolNamePrice Change%ChangeVolumeFTSE---DAX---CAC---IBEX 35--- The pan-European STOXX 600 closed some 0.5 percent down provisionally, with most sectors closing in negative territory. London's FTSE 100 slipped some 0.8 percent, w...Read More
World-class insights firm, Deloitte, recently released a report on the mining industry trends of 2016. In addition to highlighting the emerging trends, this report and other reports from leading organizations within the industry - such as the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) - note some significant issues mining companies are facing. Leading issues include the volatility of the comm...Read More
Base metals were in negative territory on Monday morning on the LME, mostly consolidating after last week's rally. Investors were in a cautious mood ahead of key data releases and central bank meetings this week, traders said.Base metals surged to multi-week and multi-month highs last week but the rallies reflected interest from funds and CTAs and not a fundamental shift in markets, they added."Th...Read More
Canada's Barrick Gold (NYSE, TSX:ABX), the world's largest producer of the precious metal by output, may be announcing Tuesday a significant shift of business focus towards shareholder returns, as former fund manager and current business performance chief, Catherine Raw, assumes as the firm's new chief financial officer.Most shareholders hope that Catherine Raw persuades management to stop prizing...Read More
Freeport McMoRan Inc. is considering selling a minority stake in its portfolio of copper mines, sources familiar with the matter said, one of the options on the table as the company scrambles to slash its $20-billion (U.S.) debt load.Continue reading at The Globe and Mail Image of Freeport McMoRan's Grasberg mine in Indonesia, viewed from space. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia Commons.Read More
With sales and operations at the ends of the earth, few companies are in a better position to take the pulse of the global economy and the resource sector in particular than Caterpillar.The world's number one heavy equipment manufacturer has been hit hard by the decline in mining and construction - sales are down more than $20 billion from its 2012 peak.On Friday the Peoria, Illinois-based giant h...Read More
NEW REPORT SHOWS THAT OVER HALF (52%) OF ALL CANADIAN-LISTED MINING COMPANIES ARE ZOMBIESThe Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays.Canada has a reputation worldwide as the epicenter for mining exploration, and over the years the country's junior-listed companies have created billions of dollars in wealth through new mineral discoveries.However, these days, Canada is ho...Read More
US-based Mosaic Co, the world's top producer of phosphate fertilizer, Switzerland's Eurochem and iron ore and nickel giant Vale SA together with private equity firm Apollo Global have been picked to make final bids for Anglo American's niobium and phosphate business in Brazil reports Bloomberg.The Brazilian operations could fetch as much as $1.5 billion according to the report. BHP Billiton spin...Read More
SNL Metals & Mining tallied the value of planned capital spending announced by mining companies in November.The industry research firm based in Charlottesville, Virginia did the same thing again April 7.Outlays on new mines, sustaining capital, expansions and projects like mine life extensions had surged by nearly $50 billion to $108 billion over the duration of just five months.Of course, some...Read More
Anglo American (LON:AAL) shareholders have rejected the miner's pay policies in the last of several objections to hefty rewards for UK executives.A trio of investor advisory groups had urged Anglo's investors to reject chief executive Mark Cutifani's pay at the annual meeting Thursday. Anglo's boss was awarded a $4.9 million ( ?3.4m) pay package last year, when the firm was among UK's worst-perfor...Read More
Newmont Mining Corp's (NYSE:NEM), the world's 2nd largest gold miner, is reviewing its compliance with US foreign bribery law.Reporting its first-quarter earnings, the Colorado-based company said it had engaged outside counsel as part of a review of its compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars the use of bribes to foreign officials.The gold and copper miner didn't specified w...Read More
Sibanye Gold (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL), the biggest producer of the precious metal in South Africa, said Wednesday it plans to spend $250 million (R3.9 billion) this year boosting infrastructure at most of its assets.Speaking at the European Gold Forum in Zurich, CEO Neal Froneman said the firm will allocate $115 million (R1.6 billion) underground projects at the Kloof and Driefontein gold mines on th...Read More
As Myanmar makes history by electing its first civilian president Htin Kyaw, after 50 years of military rule, we examine a story that helped shape Myanmar's relationship with its neighbours and the world. "A New Dawn" is an unprecedented film that comes at a historic time in Myanmar's history.Myanmar Wanbao was forced to stop construction in 2012 due to local opposition to the copper project...Read More
Amid the topmost stocks in today's market is Southern Copper Corp. (NYSE:SCCO). Southern Copper Corp. had a market cap of 21691.43, indicating that it has a good hold on the market value of the shares outstanding. The current market cap of Southern Copper Corp. exhibits the basic determinant of asset allocation and risk-return parameters for its stocks.The P/E of Southern Copper Corp. is currently...Read More
A delay in the rollout of Rio Tinto's (LON, ASX:RIO) much-anticipated autonomous railway system has forced the miner to cut its iron ore production guidance for 2017 by as much as 20 million tonnes.Delivering its first quarter results Tuesday, the world's No. 2 iron ore producer said that despite the holdup it remains on track to meet output target for this year, which is expected to hit a record...Read More
LONDON, ON, April 18, 2016 /CNW/ - Fortune Minerals Limited (TSX: FT) (OTCQX: FTMDF) ("Fortune" or the "Company") (www.fortuneminerals.com) announces the appointment of former minister of the Government of the Northwest Territories ("GNWT") Mr. David Ramsay to the Company's board of directors. Mr. Ramsay has more than 20 years of elected public office experience in the Northwest Territories, whi...Read More
Chile's Codelco, the world's No.1 copper producer, said Monday that its El Teniente mine will remain closed until at least Thursday, following torrential rains that hit the central part of the country over the weekend, causing major damages and leaving an estimated 4 million people without drinking water.Codelco warned that for each day the mine remains inactive, it loses about 1,500 tonnes of cop...Read More