Investors jumped back into copper on Thursday after reports that top consumer China is slashing import quotas of scrap metal, a bullish development first rumoured last year.After pulling back over the first three trading days of the year, Comex copper bounced back to just below $3.30 a pound ($7,270 per tonne) in New York, up over 1% from Wednesday's settlement. While gains were pared by early af...Read More
SANTIAGO, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Unionized workers at Glencore Plc's Lomas Bayas copper mine in Chile rejected a final contract offer and began government-facilitated mediation on Thursday to avoid a strike, the union said, adding that they were still far from agreement.Union president Pedro Valdivia said workers agreed to lay down tools on Jan. 10 if no agreement was reached during the mediation.New l...Read More
by: Paul ZimniskyThrough mid-December 2017, rough diamond prices are up 2.7%* year-to-date, while polished prices are down 3.5%**. However, despite shrinking manufacturer margins, the midstream segment of the industry still bought $5.3B worth of diamonds from De Beers this year, including $450M at the final sight which was 7% over the comparable sight last year and 81% over 2015. De Beers' full-...Read More
Vancouver-based ML Gold Corp.(TSXV: MLG) announced that is has started a winter drilling program on the Stars property, located 40 kilometres south-west of Houston, British Columbia. The company acquired the mine in November from Pacific Empire Minerals Corp. and Divitiae Resources.In a press release, ML Gold informed that it has mobilized a diamond drill rig and drilling is underway. The program...Read More
While it's pulled back a bit since New Year, the price of copper ended 2017 near a four-year high of $3.30 a pound ($7,260 per tonne) extending the bull run in the red metal for a second year. Measured from its multi-year lows struck at the beginning of 2016, copper has gained more than 70% in value.The rally for zinc has been even more spectacular with the metal, mainly used to galvanize steel, e...Read More
After an initial jump shares in Solgold plc (LON, TSX:SOLG) were trading flat by lunchtime on Wednesday after the company, worth $865m on the Toronto stock exchange, released the maiden resource for the Alpala target at its massive Cascabel copper-gold project in northern Ecuador.The latest in a string of announcements from Ecuador, where the Brisbane-based company have completed 63,500m of dr...Read More
by: Northern Miner Staff Writer, SEPTEMBER 27, 2017The geological model Bonterra Resources (TSX-Venture: BTR) is applying to its Gladiator gold project in the Abitibi belt of Quebec is proving to be a reliable predictor of where extensions of the already substantial deposit will appear.As a result, the Vancouver-based company has been able to quickly expand the known gold mineralization along s...Read More
Indonesia's government has extended until June 30, 2018, the temporary special mining permit it issued to PT Freeport Indonesia, a subsidiary of US-based Freeport McMoRan (NYSE:FCX).The permit was issued to allow the miner to continue exporting copper concentrate while company representatives and government officials go on with the discussions around Freeport's future operations in the country, wh...Read More
The price of copper ended 2017 near a four-year high of $3.30 a pound ($7,260 per tonne) extending the bull run in the red metal for a second year. Measured from its multi-year lows struck at the beginning of 2016, copper has gained more than 70% in value.The copper price surged by 30% in 2017 to levels last seen early 2014What happened in 2017The run started on hopes (since dashed) of massive inf...Read More
LUSAKA, Jan 2 (Reuters) - A London court has ordered Zambia Vedanta unit KCM to pay a state mining company $139 million in a claim related to the copper price, raising by $36 million the amount it was originally ordered to pay, the state company said on Tuesday.The claim relates to outstanding payments under a 2013 copper price participation settlement agreement between Konkola Copper Mines (KCM)...Read More
Mickey Fulp the Mercenary Geologist sits down with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable to revisit the virtues of a proven methodology that he has employed with regards to tax loss selling. Mickey shares how to be selective in buying particular issuers within a specific date range that have produced fairly consistent returns ranging from 10% up to 50%! Mickey also shares the best value propo...Read More
There are very few sellers leftThere were very few sellers left in January 2016 when the devastating "forever bear" was about to end. Six months later and a 150% rebound in the large caps and 200% rise in the juniors (GDXJ) provided sellers an opportunity. They drove the miners and juniors down by 40% to 45% in less than five months. However, both GDX and GDXJ have been able to hold above that low...Read More
by @GoldfingerEarlier in the week I wrote about one of my main themes for 2018, a rising inflation/interest rate environment. In this post I will lay out which sector I believe will do well against a backdrop of rising inflation and rising bond yields (including offering some stock picks), and I will also specify which sectors and asset classes you will want to avoid in 2018. Let's start with wh...Read More
At the outset, 2018 seems to be a year full of opportunity for upstream companies.After three years of fighting to survive the price collapse, companies are ready to deliver and to continue rebuild in anticipation of a new era of lower prices. We identify five key strategic themes for the new year that point to a turning point in the evolution from 'survive' to 'thrive'.1. Building, bolstering, de...Read More
Oil and gas companies are set to enter 2018 in their best shape since oil prices collapsed. In its 2018 Upstream Outlook, released today, global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie believes many will now focus on demonstrating they can thrive at low prices.Tom Ellacott, Senior Vice President, said: "Now that the belt-tightening is done, companies are looking to deliver profitable growth a...Read More
At the outset, 2018 seems to be a year full of opportunity for upstream companies.After three years of fighting to survive the price collapse, companies are ready to deliver and to continue rebuild in anticipation of a new era of lower prices. We identify five key strategic themes for the new year that point to a turning point in the evolution from 'survive' to 'thrive'.1. Building, bolstering, de...Read More
Oil and gas companies are set to enter 2018 in their best shape since oil prices collapsed. In its 2018 Upstream Outlook, released today, global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie believes many will now focus on demonstrating they can thrive at low prices.Tom Ellacott, Senior Vice President, said: "Now that the belt-tightening is done, companies are looking to deliver profitable growth a...Read More
At the outset, 2018 seems to be a year full of opportunity for upstream companies.After three years of fighting to survive the price collapse, companies are ready to deliver and to continue rebuild in anticipation of a new era of lower prices. We identify five key strategic themes for the new year that point to a turning point in the evolution from 'survive' to 'thrive'.1. Building, bolstering, de...Read More
At the outset, 2018 seems to be a year full of opportunity for upstream companies.After three years of fighting to survive the price collapse, companies are ready to deliver and to continue rebuild in anticipation of a new era of lower prices. We identify five key strategic themes for the new year that point to a turning point in the evolution from 'survive' to 'thrive'.1. Building, bolstering, de...Read More
Oil and gas companies are set to enter 2018 in their best shape since oil prices collapsed. In its 2018 Upstream Outlook, released today, global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie believes many will now focus on demonstrating they can thrive at low prices.Tom Ellacott, Senior Vice President, said: "Now that the belt-tightening is done, companies are looking to deliver profitable growth a...Read More