Copper Stocks Articles

Gold: Is the Correction Over?

Jan 24, 2019 / Stewart Thomson

Is the price correction in gold already over?Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge. I told investors to prepare for a modest and healthy correction from the $1300 area, and that's happened.Gold hasn't even reached the first Fibonacci retracement line after staging a magnificent rally from the $1173 area. That's a sign of immense technical strength.Please click here now. Double-click to en...Read More

The global metals industry: 5 things to watch in 2019

24 January 2019 / Staff reporter

Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.The success of China's economic reform programme will have a strong influence on the metals market this year. On balance, fundamentals have improved, but geo-political concerns continue to dog the market and whispers of economic slowd...Read More

Copper guidance reached for tenth consecutive year

24 January 2019 / Staff reporter

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25It produced 294,700 tonnes of copper during the year, up 14% year-on-year and at the top end of the 270,000-300,000t forecast.Read More

Anglo sees improvements across divisions

24 January 2019 / Staff reporter

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25Anglo achieved a 7% year-on-year increase in total quarterly production on a copper equivalent basis, excluding the effect of the Minas-Rio stoppage.Read More

BC ideally placed for green economy

24 January 2019 / Staff reporter

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25"BC has the copper advantage," he said.Read More

Execution key as Pumpkin Hollow tracks towards Q4 production

24 January 2019 / Staff reporter

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25Construction had crossed the 20% mark, he told Mining Journal in Vancouver. "Our 30-strong team is now fully mobilised to either Reno or Yerrington (the host town).Read More

Cobre Las Cruces paused after land slippage

24 January 2019 / Staff reporter

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25The company said the slippage occurred in the early hours of January 23, on the slope of the northern zone of the openpit mine at the mining hydrometallurgical complex in the Seville province.It said the slippage had not caused harm to any people, nor had an...Read More

More M&A to come

24 January 2019 / Staff reporter

Likely Shadary win in DR Congo threatens further squeeze on miners' profitsSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesRhyolite Ridge PFS beats expectationsSPONSOREDioneerElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25The fever started to grip with Barrick Gold's much-praised acquisition of Randgold Resources (read: Mark Bri...Read More

M&A one likely answer to growth concerns

24 January 2019 / Staff reporter

Lucara sells large diamonds for US$32.5mPrecious stonesLikely Shadary win in DR Congo threatens further squeeze on miners' profitsSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesRhyolite Ridge PFS beats expectationsSPONSOREDioneerLast year saw rising US interest rates (both bond yields and the US Fed funds) and a strong US dollar, coupled with escalating t...Read More

Committee misdirecting government efforts

24 January 2019 / Staff reporter

Likely Shadary win in DR Congo threatens further squeeze on miners' profitsSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesRhyolite Ridge PFS beats expectationsSPONSOREDioneerElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25Australia's minister for resources asked a committee of mining industry stakeholders in March 2018 to "ident...Read More

The global metals industry: 5 things to watch in 2019

24 January 2019 / Staff reporter

Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.The success of China's economic reform programme will have a strong influence on the metals market this year. On balance, fundamentals have improved, but geo-political concerns continue to dog the market and whispers of economic slowd...Read More

The global metals industry: 5 things to watch in 2019

24 January 2019 / Staff reporter

Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.The success of China's economic reform programme will have a strong influence on the metals market this year. On balance, fundamentals have improved, but geo-political concerns continue to dog the market and whispers of economic slowd...Read More

The global metals industry: 5 things to watch in 2019

24 January 2019 / Staff reporter

Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.The success of China's economic reform programme will have a strong influence on the metals market this year. On balance, fundamentals have improved, but geo-political concerns continue to dog the market and whispers of economic slowd...Read More

The global metals industry: 5 things to watch in 2019

24 January 2019 / Staff reporter

Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.The success of China's economic reform programme will have a strong influence on the metals market this year. On balance, fundamentals have improved, but geo-political concerns continue to dog the market and whispers of economic slowd...Read More

First Quantum calls off massive job cuts in Zambia

Jan. 23, 2019, 5:54 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

Canada's First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) has scrapped plans to lay off 2,500 workers in Zambia over an increase in mining taxes, and has committed to extend talks with the southern African nation's government over the issue.The Toronto-based said last month it had exhausted all other avenues of cost reduction, adding the job cuts would be implemented in phases during the first three months of 2019...Read More

Strong last quarter leads Antofagasta to record copper output in 2018

Jan. 23, 2019, 3:15 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

Chilean miner Antofagasta Plc. (LON:ANTO) ended 2018 on a very high note as it produced a record amount of copper in the final quarter of the year, which led it to post annual output at the higher end of its forecast.The company, majority-owned by Chile's Luksic family, one of the country's wealthiest, churned out 220,000 tonnes of the red metal in the three months to December, up 16% from the pr...Read More

Gold Stocks Remain in Downtrend

Jan 23, 2019 / Jordan Roy-Byrne

Last week we discussed the difference between a rally and bull market. Gold stocks have been in a rally. That rally is now over as gold stocks peaked at their 400-day moving averages days ago and sliced through their 200-day moving averages Friday.Take a look at the charts of any gold stock index (GDX, GDXJ, HUI) and it's clear they are in a downtrend. Go back two to three years. You'll see lo...Read More

Why electrification and automation are top priorities for mining companies in 2019

23 January 2019 / Staff reporter

Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.The Wood Mackenzie report Global trends: what to look for in 2019 looks at emerging business models that ensure global mining companies remain at the forefront of the energy transition. Find out why electrification and autom...Read More

Better throughput and grades boost output, eat into cash costs

23 January 2019 / Staff reporter

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25It produced a record 220,000 tonnes of copper in the December quarter, up 24% year-on-year, bringing the full-year total to 725,300t, a 3% increase from 2017 and at the top end of its revised guidanceRead More

Are we really seeing change in Africa?

23 January 2019 / Staff reporter

Likely Shadary win in DR Congo threatens further squeeze on miners' profitsSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesRhyolite Ridge PFS beats expectationsSPONSOREDioneerElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25In the absence of a TARDIS, time, as far as most physicists have ever been able to deduce, only moves forwar...Read More

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