Mining Stocks Articles

Annual elementary school rankings out today-Calgary outperforms Edmonton

mdash April 14, 2018 / Staff reporter

The Report Card on Alberta's Elementary Schools 2018 reports a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance. These indicators are used to calculate an overall rating for each school. On the basis of this rating, the schools are ranked. The Report Card brings all of this information together in one easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyze and compare the perfo...Read More

Classic Minerals kicks off gold quest at Forrestania

Published at Apr 16, 2018, in Mining / Staff reporter

Classic Minerals (ASX:CLZ)announced this morning that it has kicked off reverse circulation (RC) drillingat its Forrestania Gold Project in Western Australia. CLZ will be drilling withthe view to uncover a new gold system at the recently uncovered Van Uden Westprospect, and to enhance known mineralisation at the Lady Lila and Kat Gapprospects. The targets areas have beenuntouched for some 18 years...Read More

Argent produces commercial grade zinc and lead concentrates

Published at Apr 12, 2018, in Mining / Staff reporter

ArgentMinerals Limited (ASX:ARD) has achieved a significant new milestone for theKempfield polymetallic project. ARD reports the successful separation ofprimary material into potentially marketable commercial grade zinc and leadconcentrates that also contain silver and gold.The extraction of zinc and lead into separate concentrates marks asignificant advance towards project development, as the com...Read More

Excellent cobalt anomalism seen at Classic Minerals' Fraser Range Project

Published at Apr 18, 2018, in Mining / Staff reporter

Classic Minerals (ASX:CLZ) today updated the market on its FraserRange nickel-cobalt project in WA. While CLZ is primarily concentrating its attention on goldexploration at its flagship Forrestania Gold Project, it has also completed areview of its Fraser Range dataset. The review identified 'excellent cobaltanomalism' at the project's Rubys Reward prospect, including up to 1399ppmcobalt. The...Read More

Caeneus completes RC drilling at Pilbara nickel-copper-cobalt deposit

Published at Apr 16, 2018, in Mining / Staff reporter

Caeneus Minerals (ASX:CAD) this morning provided an explorationupdate regarding its 80% owned Pardoo Project in WA's Pilbara region. CAD reported that it has completed a 10 hole RC programmeat the Pardoo Highway nickel-copper-cobalt deposit that it owns in a joint venturewith Arrow Minerals (ASX:AMD). The Highway deposit has been a focus for past explorersprimarily attempting to identify the sourc...Read More

How U.S.-Russia tensions could revive Canada's struggling uranium mines

April 17, 2018<br/>3:52 PM / Gabriel Friedman

Just months after Saskatoon-based Cameco Corp. laid off hundreds of workers and shuttered the largest high-grade uranium mine in Canada, the market for the radioactive metal used in nuclear power generation is suddenly in flux, as tensions between the U.S. and Russia flare.Last week, in response to new U.S. sanctions, Russian lawmakers proposed measures that would halt enriched uranium exports to...Read More

Lithium Australia to produce lithium-ion cathode powder

Published at Apr 18, 2018, in Mining / Staff reporter

Lithium Australia NL (ASX:LIT) has finalised its acquisitionof advanced cathode material production technology, acquiring 99.7% of theequity in Brisbane-based technology company - the Very Small Particle Company (VSPC).Cathode powder producer, VSPC, has spent 14 years andapproximately A$30 million developing some of the world's most advancedmanufacturing techniques for the production of cathode ma...Read More

Dateline Resource strikes lucky: discovers near-surface gold

Published at Apr 18, 2018, in Mining / Staff reporter

Colorado-based gold explorer, DatelineResources (ASX:DTR), today revealed its discovery of near-surface visible goldmineralisation at Mineral Hill, which forms part of its Lucky Strike tenements.This newly exposed vein holdssignificant potential - initial exploration activities have unveiled geological similaritiesto the Lucky Strike vein, trending in the same direction.Encouragingly, this recentl...Read More

Canada a world leader in environmental performance

mdash April 19, 2018 / Staff reporter

Canadians care about the state of their environment. Over the past few years, several reports have presented Canada as an environmental laggard, ranking it near the bottom of the list of OECD countries. But we regard the methodologies behind these studies as flawed: they unfairly represent Canada's environmental performance in some respects and do not always use the most meaningful and relevant pe...Read More

Cobalt play Meteoric Resources releases positive report

Published at Apr 20, 2018, in Mining / Staff reporter

Meteoric Resources (ASX:MEI) has released an operational update for the three months to 31 March. In the quarter, MEI confirmed high-grade cobalt mineralisation at Mulligan with rock chip samples grading up to 9.71% cobalt and 16.5 g/t gold, and picked up two new primary cobalt projects in Canada - the Gillies Limit Project and the Burt Cobalt Project, as shown below:In addition, assay results fro...Read More

Castillo spots new cobalt targets, looks to build Resource

Published at Apr 19, 2018, in Mining / Staff reporter

Castillo Copper (ASX:CCZ) todayannounced that an updated desktop review has identified newprimary cobalt targets at the Cangai Cobalt Project(previously Jackaderry North).A key finding is the material exploration upside for cobalt mineralisationacross both Cangai cobalt/copper projects.Exploration for new cobalt targets is set to progress concurrentlywith the Cangai Copper Mine expansion campaign....Read More

Lithium Australia identifies abundant Li20 micas at Lepidolite Hill

Published at Apr 19, 2018, in Mining / Staff reporter

Following its announcement yesterday that it had finalised its acquisition of the Very Small Particle Company, Lithium Australia (ASX:LIT) has this morning informed the market it has found abundant lithium micas within the ore found at its Lepidolite Hill project.Test work on ore-sorting products confirms LIT's successful separation of lithium micas using an X-ray transmission ore-sorting method,...Read More

Archer to develop new battery tech with Uni of NSW

Published at Apr 18, 2018, in Mining / Staff reporter

Archer Exploration Limited (ASX:AXE) has today announced the signing of a Collaboration Agreement and a complementary Research Service Agreement with The University of New South Wales (UNSW) to develop and implement AXE's graphite and graphene materials for use in lithium-ion battery energy storage systems. The aim of the research will be to achieve technological advances through AXE's graphite an...Read More

Empire Resources begins high grade ore processing

Published at Apr 20, 2018, in Mining / Staff reporter

Empire Resources Ltd (ASX:ERL) hasprovided an update on its progress at the Penny's Find Gold Mine.The Penny's Find Joint Venture (PFJV)has now commenced its fourth toll treatment campaign at the Lakewood Milllocated on the outskirts of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia. ERL has indicated that the latest tollcampaign will process some 28,000 tonnesof high grade ore from the open pit at Lakew...Read More

Independent schools dominate top spots in annual ranking of B.C. elementary schools

mdash April 21, 2018 / Staff reporter

The Report Card on British Columbia's Elementary Schools 2018 collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyze and compare the performance of individual schools. By doing so, the Report Card assists parents when they choose a school for their children and encourages and assists all those seeking to imp...Read More

'Outstanding' results from Archer's manganese test work

Published at Apr 23, 2018, in Mining / Staff reporter

ArcherExploration Limited (ASX:AXE) has today informed the market of 'outstanding'results from recent metallurgical test work conducted on a composite drillsample sourced from the its 100% owned Jamieson Tank Manganese Project in SouthAustralia. The test work undertakenby an independent laboratory has confirmed that manganese from AXE's JamiesonTank project can make electrolytic manganese dioxide...Read More

Lithium Australia adds Pilbara lithium-tin-tantalum project

Published at Apr 20, 2018, in Mining / Staff reporter

LithiumAustralia NL (ASX:LIT) today announced that it has acquired the MoolyellaLithium-Tin-Tantalum Project (EL 45/4766) in the Pilbara region of WA, about1300km north-east of Perth. LITpurchased this tenement from Anova Metals Australia Pty Ltd. Consideration forthe acquisition is $25,000 cash and $25,000 of fully paid shares in LIT valuedat the 20-day VWAP of $0.1509 (equating to 165,653 shares...Read More

Metal prices roiled by U.S.-Russia trade spat but commodity CEOs say ignore the 'tweetstorm'

April 23, 2018<br/>4:23 PM / Gabriel Friedman

In the latest sign of the volatile state of the commodities’ markets, the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday dialled back the scope of its sanctions against Russia, aluminum and palladium prices plunged while Canadian metal companies’ shares also slipped.Last week, palladium hit US$1,040 per ounce - its highest price since February - in what many executives attributed to fears tha...Read More

'A perennial disappointment': Glencore's prize cobalt miner Katanga bogged down with problems in Congo

April 23, 2018<br/>1:59 PM / Bloomberg News

Katanga Mining Ltd. will soon be the world’s top cobalt miner, churning out thousands of tons of metal and billions of dollars in revenue for Glencore Plc. It’s also turning into a major thorn in the commodity giant’s side.Katanga is controlled by Glencore but trades in Toronto, making it one of few options for equity investors seeking exposure to the coveted battery ingredient....Read More

Reducing Ontario's personal and corporate income tax rates to 8% would attract investment, top talent

mdash April 24, 2018 / Staff reporter

Over the past fifteen years, Ontario's provincial economy has struggled relative to the rest of the country. The reasons for Ontario's economic weakness are complex and varied. However, public policy choices have been a contributing factor.One area that stands out as a particularly strong candidate for reform is tax policy. Specifically, Ontario's personal income tax (PIT) system undermines Ontari...Read More

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