RIO DE JANEIRO, April 26 (Reuters) - Brazil's Vale hopes to find a partner for its struggling New Caledonia nickel mine by the end of the year but it is not clear if the world's largest nickel producer will continue nickel operations there, executives said on Thursday.A day after first quarter results showed a 36 percent slump in profit, executives said they were not satisfied with nickel prices.H...Read More
The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for ReutersLONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - "Our industry is going to suffer from disruption, distortion and damage. April 2018 has not been a good month for aluminium globally."That was the view of Ron Knapp, secretary-general of the International Aluminium Institute (IAI), in his opening address to CRU's World Aluminium Conference in L...Read More
MOSCOW, April 26 (Reuters) - Russia's Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) has cut the 2018 production forecast for its new Bystrinsky copper project near the Chinese border due to a problem with equipment which it hopes to fix in the second quarter, it said on Thursday.Nornickel, part-owned by Russian tycoon Vladimir Potanin and aluminium giant Rusal, said its 2018 output forecast from its main assets was...Read More
SANTIAGO, April 26 (Reuters) - Chile's Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, said on Thursday that early contract talks with its workers' union ended without an agreement, setting the stage for legally scheduled negotiations to begin in June.The union representing workers at the mine, which is controlled by BHP told Reuters this week that it was "highly probable" that an agreement for a new...Read More
Oil and gas producer Cenovus Energy Inc expects Canada's railways to be able to carry more oil in the second half of this year, easing transport bottlenecks and allowing it to stick to previous annual forecasts.Cenovus, one of the biggest of Canada's oil sands producers, said in March that it was operating at lower capacity due to the maxing out of pipelines and other routes through which it sends...Read More
Oil and gas producer Cenovus Energy Inc expects Canada's railways to be able to carry more oil in the second half of this year, easing transport bottlenecks and allowing it to stick to previous annual forecasts.Cenovus, one of the biggest of Canada's oil sands producers, said in March that it was operating at lower capacity due to the maxing out of pipelines and other routes through which it sends...Read More
Mr. Eric Fier reportsSILVERCREST ANNOUNCES C$15 MILLION BOUGHT DEAL FINANCINGSilvercrest Metals Inc has entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters led by PI Financial Corp. and Cormark Securities Inc., pursuant to which the underwriters have agreed to purchase, on a bought deal basis, 7,143,000 common shares of the company at a price of $2.10 per share for aggregate gross proceeds...Read More
Mr. Ivan Bebek reportsAURYN EXPANDS SOMBRERO DISTRICTAuryn Resources Inc. has staked a substantial land position in the Andahuaylas-Yauri belt in southern Peru. This area hosts significant large-scale porphyry and skarn deposits such as the Las Bambas, Tintaya, Antapaccay, Cotabambas, Los Chancas and Constancia deposits, as well as Auryn's undrilled Sombrero project. Approximately 60,000 hectares...Read More
Mr. John Burzynski reportsOSISKO INTERSECTS 115 G/T AU OVER 8.4 METRES AT LYNXOsisko Mining Inc. has provided new results from the continuing drill program at its 100-per-cent-owned Windfall Lake gold project located in the Abitibi greenstone belt, Urban township, Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Quebec. The 800,000-metre drill program combines definition, expansion and exploration drilling in and around...Read More
Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM) logged Thursday a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on the back of higher gold prices during the first three months of the year, as investors have returned to safe haven assets due to ongoing geopolitical risks.The US miner, the only gold company that forms part of the S&P500 index, earned a quarterly profit of $192 million, or 36 cents a diluted share, compared wit...Read More
Moroccan King Mohammed VI will sign a series of investment agreements in a visit to Congo Republic this weekend, Environment & Tourism Minister Arlette Soudan-Nonault said.Mohammed will travel to the Central African nation for an April 28 summit of leaders to discuss the Congo Basin Blue Fund, Soudan-Nonault said by mobile-phone text message on Thursday from the capital, Brazzaville. The monarch w...Read More
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Canada's Centerra Gold said on Tuesday it had received an unsolicited bid for its Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan from Chaarat Gold Holdings (CGH) but that it had informed the London-listed company that it was not interested in the offer.Read full newsRead More
Africa-focused Gem Diamonds' (LON:GEMD) revenue nearly tripled in the first quarter of the year thanks to strong demand for its high-quality white rough rocks and the sale of a 910-carat diamond, the fifth-largest in history.Delivering results for the quarter ended on March 31, the company said the $40 million fetched by the giant D-Colour Type IIa diamond found at its flagship Let??eng mine i...Read More
Beijing has come a long way since its experimental days with HMAS Melbourne in the late 1980s...Read full newsRead More
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This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business Reporter West Texas Intermediate crude for June delivery gained 35 cents to $68.05 on the New York Merc, while Brent for June gained 14 cents to $74.00 (all figures in this para U.S.). Western Canadian Select traded at a discount of $18.85 to...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Will PurcellThe diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Wednesday was a discouraging 52-99-143. The TSX Venture Exchange fell five points to 783 while polished diamond prices were flat. Ken MacNeill and George Read's Star Diamond Corp. (DIAM) lost one...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterNew York spot gold fell $7.20 to $1,322.60 on Wednesday. The TSX Venture Exchange fell 5.45 points to 783.79 while the TSX Gold Index lost 1.11 points to 191.12. Detour Gold Corp. (DGC) led Canadian gold miners lower, dropping 37 cents...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business Reporter The TSX Venture Exchange lost 5.45 points to 783.79 Wednesday. Emprise Capital Corp. has listed two capital pool shells: ECC Ventures 1 Corp. (EONE: $0.15) and ECC Ventures 2 Corp. (ETWO: $0.15). Each shell sold a $200,000 initial pub...Read More