The timing couldn't be better for the company, which pared back its portfolio to focus on getting its premier asset into production as zinc supply is forecast to remain tight in the medium term."We're well on the way to bringing our product to market at a time we expect the zinc market to continue to be extremely strong, so it's the perfect matching of production into a market that's crying out fo...Read More

The company that built a market capitalisation of A$240 million four years ago on the back of its Productora 1.5 million tonne copper and 1 million ounce gold discovery in Chile - before completing a positive prefeasibility study and locking in key infrastructure and project partner deals - has a fully diluted enterprise value now of circa $30 million.The February 2016 PFS on a 10-year mine produc...Read More

TECHNICAL GUIDE TO FINANCING: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL INPUTS REQUIREDThe changes correspond with evolving ESG risks to financiers. The textbox below lists matters most commonly presenting risks through their potential to halt projects, suspend operations, increase management costs and/or result in significant closure liabilities.  These are listed in historical order rather than importance.&...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

The company has just secured the Condor concessions in the San Luis district, as it adds further scale to its portfolio which already contains the country's largest lithium hard rock pegmatite holding.Importantly, Latin is in discussions with the owners and operators of processing plants in the province to enable a spodumene circuit to be added to an existing plant.The acquisition, coupled with th...Read More

After an all-scrip takeover of Canadian-listed WCB Resources in November, Kingston immediately upgraded Misima's existing resource by 22% to a JORC standard 2.8 million ounces of gold and 13.9Moz silver and is poised to appoint a drilling contractor.Many may remember Misima as one of Placer Dome's cornerstone gold mines, which produced 3.7Moz of gold and 22Moz of silver over 14 years before it was...Read More

Investment Risk Index: CCCTotal Score: 51Legal: 49Governance: 50Social: 77Fiscal: 50Infrastructure: 19Greenland has much more to offer than fishing and colourful houses. Climate change has opened up formerly frozen parts of the massive island and explorers are finding rich deposits of zinc, titanium, copper, iron ore, rare earth elements and uranium.Mining returned to Greenland earlier this year w...Read More

Chile's development agency Corfo said any purchase of a stake in SQM by Tianqi Lithium or associated entities would "gravely distort market competition", given Tianqi and SQM together controlled 70% of the global lithium market, according to a 45-page complaint filed on Friday, the wire service said.Corfo head Eduardo Bitran told Reuters Tianqi had presented a non-binding offer for Nutrien Ltd's 3...Read More

Barclays analyst Dane Davis said Chinese data arriving in mid-March would set the tone for copper's price for the month as the market waits on demand indications from the world's biggest consumer of the red metal.Read More

Our deal to develop the underground phase of our mainstay Cannon gold mine near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia has turned a cash consuming asset into a cash-generating one.With an upfront payment, ongoing per-ounce amounts and continued upside exposure, the deal leaves us free to focus on our South Korean projects, where high-grade gold and silver have been confirmed.The Cannon deal involves our...Read More

Toliara in Madagascar shapes as an important ilmenite source at a time when burgeoning Chinese titanium pigment production has seen a recovery in prices and an encouraging price outlook.That makes it a different type of project to Kwale, where rutile accounts for nearly half the sales revenue currently being generated, albeit on 15% of the production volume from the operation (470,000 tonnes per a...Read More

At Mining Indaba, in Cape Town, Jangada management will mix with banks, funds and private individuals that previously poured money into PGM endeavours in the world-famous Bushveld complex, some 1,400km away. Considering the dire straits many PGM miners on the Bushveld find themselves in, one might assume Jangada would want to avoid any comparison with the region - far from it. "There are...Read More

Managing director and CEO Archie Koimtsidis said Cardinal provided investors with exposure to potentially a world-class development gold asset, with the company de-risking and advancing the project towards development with a management team with extensive in-country experience. "The company expects to continue to generate positive news flow from its infill drill campaign, metallurgical optimi...Read More

Valor Resources Limited is pleased to report an updated JORC Mineral Resource Estimate for the Berenguela CopperSilver Project. The updated Resource Estimate includes an 80% increase in total tonnage, as well as a maiden Measured Resources Estimate. Comparisons between the Resource Estimate published in October 2017 and this updated Mineral Resource Estimate can be seen from the two tables on...Read More

Graham G. Clow, Chairman, is pleased to announce the appointment of Arthur G. Graham, MBA, P.Eng., as Vice President, Corporate Development (New York), Avakash Patel, P.Eng., as Vice President, Metallurgy (Toronto), and Grant Malensek, P.Eng./P.Geo., as Principal Engineer - Valuations (Denver). With over 37 years of experience as a financial institution mining expert with experience in operat...Read More

Investment Risk Index: AA Total Score: 78Legal: 65Governance: 91Social: 86Fiscal: 75Infrastructure: 94Miners have literally just scraped the surface of Finland's mineral potential. Most, if not all, of the major projects in the country have come from outcrop deposits, which make up 1-2% of its mineral wealth.This major geological potential, coupled with a supportive mining code and reliable i...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

Southern Gold returned a maiden unfranked dividend to investors in 2017 thanks to cashflow from the openpit Cannon gold mine near Kalgoorlie, in Western Australia, and the company has just signed an agreement to proceed with underground mining at Cannon which will see development partner Westgold Resources (AU:WGX) pay A$1.5 million (US$1.2 million) upfront plus a production payment per ounce for...Read More

The Perth-based, Toronto-listed junior finally got its hands on the Djarkadougou permit, which includes the Bondi deposit, six months ago after a protracted courtship of Orezone Gold Corp and a year-long government approval process. Sarama persevered for a long time to get its hands on the permit because of its strategic position, wedged between its 2.1 million ounce South Houndé proje...Read More

The 100%-owned Citronen mine will add up to 200,000 tonnes of zinc to annual supply and rank among the world's top six producers.While that might sound like bad news for prices, the global zinc market is something of a special case. Warehouse stocks on the London Metal Exchange have been cleaned out by a string of mine closures, a dearth of new projects and relentless growth in global demand of ab...Read More