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
Minotaur Exploration (ASX: MEP) announced today that it has signed a binding Heads of Agreement with Andromeda Metals (ASX: ADN), according to which the latter may earn up to 75 per cent interest in Minotaur's kaolin-halloysite deposits in South Australia through the expenditure of $6 million over a period of up to 5 years. According to Minotaur, the assets comprise three tenements containing seve...Read More
https://www.bloomberg.com/A little-known Chilean company that until recently churned out mostly crop nutrients may hold a key to the future of electric-vehicle production. And a Chinese mining company is standing ready, poised to grab a big piece of it.Soc. Quimica & Minera de Chile SA sits on the world's richest deposit of lithium. It already produces more than 20 percent of the global supply...Read More
TORONTO ,April 24, 2018/CNW/ - RNC Minerals (RNX.TO) (Read full newsRead More
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
Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (TSXV:DAU, OTC:DAUGF, FKFT:QXR2.F) ('Desert Gold' or 'the Company') announces that, subject to exchange approval, it will conduct a non-brokered private placement of up to 4,333,334 units at a price of CDN $0.15 per unit (the 'Unit') to raise up to an aggregate CDN $650,000 (the 'Financing').Read full newsRead More
Blackrock Gold Corporation (TSXV: BRC) (the 'Company') is pleased to announce that its CEO Greg Schifrin has recently conducted a site visit to its recently optioned Silver Cloud Property in Elko County, Nevada to evaluate the property and potential drill targets.Read full newsRead More
Morning Market Breakdown, April 26: After a tumultuous Wednesday for some major indexes, both Bay Street and Wall Street glided into the green on Thursday.Read full newsRead More
Goldcorp-backed Auryn Resources Inc. (TSE:AUG) announced today that it is close to becoming a big player in the Andahuaylas-Yauri belt in southern Peru.The reason behind such assertion is the company's recent addition of 60,000 hectares to its Sombrero project, which means that now its land position is greater than 100,000 hectares. The decision to stack was taken after the company received the re...Read More
NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) - Gold and diamond companies including Berkshire Hathaway Inc's Richline Group Inc joined with IBM to develop blockchain technology to track the origin of jewelry and ensure it is ethically sourced, the companies said on Thursday.The joint initiative dubbed TrustChain aims to make it easier for consumers to track diamonds and precious metals through the various steps o...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
France's ERAMET said on Friday it will make an all-cash takeover bid for Australia's Mineral Deposits Ltd at A$1.46 a share, valuing the company at about A$288 million ($218 million).ERAMET said the offer, pitched at a 26 percent premium to Mineral Deposits' closing price on Thursday, would enable the full consolidation of the TiZir joint venture, in which each company has a 50 percent stake.The v...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
(Bloomberg) - Latin America's top mining exposition kicked off with a seminar on promoting gender equality. Meanwhile, at the exhibition center a few miles away, women in tight dresses and high heels posed next to mining tool booths and strip-club promoters at the entrance offered two-for-one drink coupons to attendees.The week-long Expomin event in Chile offered a glimpse at both how far the ind...Read 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
(Bloomberg Gadfly) - The most drawn-out deal in the global mining industry looks set for another round.Freeport-McMoRan Inc. shares have fallen about 21 percent since they opened Monday, headed for their worst weekly performance in almost three years.The reason is a further wrinkle in the Indonesian government's attempt to lift its stake in the Grasberg mine on the island of New Guinea, one...Read More
LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan-focused Kaz Minerals will scrap its secondary listing in Hong Kong because of a lack of appetite from investors, the company said on Thursday.Since the 2011 secondary listing only a small number of shareholders have elected to hold their stock on the Hong Kong register, Kaz Minerals said.Trading in Kaz Minerals' Hong Kong shares, which represent only 0.03 of...Read More
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
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
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