Mining Articles

US markets down, March 18-22: Vale, Wheaton Precious Metals and Franco-Nevada

March 25, 2019 / Posted Trish Saywell

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.34% to finish the trading week at 25,502.32, and the S&P 500 Index lost 0.77% to end the week at 2,800.71. Spot gold rose US$11.10 per oz. to US$1,313.40 per oz. gold.Shares of Vale remained under pressure, falling US38 ? to US$12.82. The Brazilian iron ore miner announced on March 20 that it was suspending operations at the Alegria mine in its Mariana compl...Read More

TSX Venture rises, March 18-22: Macarthur, Luminex and Mirasol

March 25, 2019 / Posted Richard Quarisa

Shares of Macarthur Minerals rose 100% to 10 ?. The company signed a life-of-mine offtake agreement to sell Glencore International iron ore that could be produced from Macarthur's Lake Giles iron project in Western Australia's Yilgarn region. The company later redacted several forward-looking statements that were not National Instrument 43-101 compliant, such as the value of the deal and amended s...Read More

Amarillo Gold reinterprets Posse deposit with new resource model

March 25, 2019 / Posted Northern Miner Staff

Amarillo Gold (TSXV: AGC; US-OTC: AGCBF) has used a new resource model to reinterpret the Posse gold deposit and update the resource estimate for its Mara Rosa gold project in Goias State, Brazil. The company says the new methodology fundamentally alters its understanding of mineralization at Posse.The updated resource model spans three contiguous zones and includes a higher grade core that Amaril...Read More

Interview with Joseph Grosso, Executive Chairman, CEO, and President, Golden Arrow Resources (TSX-V: GRG, FSE: G6A, OTCQB: GARWF)

25/3/2019 / Dr. Allen Alper, PhD Economic Geology and Petrology, Columbia University, NYC, USA

Golden Arrow Resources Corporation (TSX-V: GRG, FSE: G6A, OTCQB: GARWF) is an exploration company earning production income and is a member of the Grosso Group, a resource management group that has pioneered exploration in Argentina since 1993. Golden Arrow owns a 25% share of Puna Operations Inc., a joint venture operated by SSR Mining, with more than 8 years of forecast production and upside pot...Read More

A Mountain of Mexican Gold and Silver

March 25, 2019 / Gerardo Del Real

Joining us today is Almaden Minerals (NYSE: AAU) (TSX: AMM) President & CEO Morgan Poliquin.With gold now having firm support above $1,300/oz. Almaden's Ixtaca project is looking fantastic. Read on for the latest information on it.To your wealth,Gerardo Del RealEditor, Junior Mining Monthly and Junior Mining Trader.Gerardo Del Real: This is Gerardo Del Real with the Outsider Club. Joining me tod...Read More

Precious Metals Weekly Round-Up: Gold Steady as Stock Markets Rise

Sun Mar 24 19:14:00 2019 / Staff reporter

Precious metals were supported by a down dollar after the US Federal Reserve decision to pause interest rate hikes for 2019.Read full newsRead More

Video Interview - Chantelle Schieven, research head at Murenbeeld & Co.: Ignore the Day to Day - Gold is a Long-ter...

Sun Mar 24 18:59:01 2019 / Staff reporter

"Video Interview - Chantelle Schieven, research head at Murenbeeld & Co.: Ignore the Day to Day - Gold is a Long-term Investment. https://t.co/oityE0W8NQ #gold #investing"Read full newsRead More

Coming soon! #Cookies #Beverages #Drinks #Beer #Alcohol #Copacking #Distribution #Transportation #CEO #Formulation...

Sun Mar 24 17:35:09 2019 / Staff reporter

"Coming soon! #Cookies #Beverages #Drinks #Beer #Alcohol #Copacking #Distribution #Transportation #CEO #Formulation #Edibles #THC #California #USA #Investing"Read full newsRead More

Peruvian authorities search for solutions to blockade affecting shipments from Las Bambas ...

Mar. 24, 2019, 10:11 AM / Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

Peru's Minister of Energy and Mines, Francisco ??smodes, and the Vice-Minister of Territorial Governance, Ra??l Molina, held a meeting this weekend with the Cusco Regional Governor, Jean Paul Benavente, where they addressed the situation regarding a blockade affecting Las Bambas copper mine.For 48 days now, the Indigenous community of Nueva Fuerabamba has blocked Chinese miner MMG Ltd from using a...Read More

Scientists find new way to power electric cars using cobalt

Mar. 24, 2019, 8:59 AM / Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell developed a technique that uses only water, carbon dioxide and cobalt metal particles that have surface nanostructures measuring billionths of a meter in size, to produce hydrogen on demand at relatively low temperature and pressure and to use to power the next generation of electric vehicles.According to David K. Ryan, the project's principal...Read More

Alrosa says Verkhne-Munskoye deposit is more prolific than previously thought

Mar. 24, 2019, 8:51 AM / Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

The world's top diamond producer by output, Alrosa (MCX:ALRS), ran an experiment at its Zapolyarnaya pipe, which is a part of the Verkhne-Munskoye deposit in the west of Yakutia, and found that the area has the potential to become one of its richest in large diamonds deposits.The test, which took place from March 11 to March 15, 2019, consisted in feeding the processing plant N12 in the town of Ud...Read More

Bosnia's 300 MW power plant to go offline for 35-day overhaul on Mar. 25

Mar. 24, 2019, 8:47 AM / Reuters

British-based trading and investment group Energy Financing Team (EFT) said on Saturday it will take its 300 megawatt (MW) Stanari coal-fired power plant in northern Bosnia offline for a 35-day overhaul from March 25.The Stanari power plant in Doboj is the first privately-funded power plant in the Western Balkans which came online in 2016. It produced 2,056 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity in 2...Read More

Rio Tinto halts rail, mine operations in Western Australia as cyclone hits

Mar. 24, 2019, 8:35 AM / Reuters

Rio Tinto, the world's No. 2 iron ore miner, said on Sunday it was suspending rail operations in the Pilbara region and mining at the Robe Valley operations in Western Australia as a severe tropical cyclone hit the state's far north.The suspension comes after Rio, BHP, and Fortescue on Thursday cleared their ships from ports ahead of Cyclone Veronica, which reached land south of Port Hedland, the...Read More

Endeavour Mining Corporation : Endeavour Achieves First Gold Pour At Ity CIL Project 4 Months Ahead of Schedule

Sun Mar 24 05:14:32 2019 / Staff reporter

ENDEAVOUR ACHIEVES FIRST GOLD POUR AT ITY CIL PROJECT 4 MONTHS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE View News Release in PDF HIGHLIGHTS Over 8.5 million man-hours have been worked without a lost time injury The ...Read full newsRead More

US sanctions Venezuela state gold mining company: Treasury

Sun Mar 24 01:53:32 2019 / Staff reporter

The United States slapped sanctions Tuesday on a Venezuelan state mining company, charging that its illicit gold operations were being used to prop up President Nicolas Maduro and his inner circle. The action was taken against CVG Compania General de Mineria de Venezuela CA, or Minerven, and its president Adrian Antonio Perdomo Mata, the US Treasury Department said. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuch...Read More

Endeavour Mining Corporation : Endeavour Achieves First Gold Pour At Ity CIL Project 4 Months Ahead of Schedule

Sun Mar 24 01:53:32 2019 / Staff reporter

ENDEAVOUR ACHIEVES FIRST GOLD POUR AT ITY CIL PROJECT 4 MONTHS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE View News Release in PDF HIGHLIGHTS Over 8.5 million man-hours have been worked without a lost time injury The ...Read full newsRead More

Transport and Agriculture: An Overlooked Investment Strategy?

March 24, 2019 / Victoria Hetherington

Transport and agri stocks might make an unusual pairing, but for investors overly exposed to the usual mix of financials and utilities, the following unlikely tag team would add instant diversification to a TSX index portfolio. While these stocks aren’t the kinds of high-performance tickers beloved of capital gains investors, their inclusion in a portfolio could add a little extra defensiven...Read More

2 Undervalued Stocks That Are Starting to Rally

March 24, 2019 / Amy Legate-Wolfe

It can be really hard to find stocks that are undervalued during a time when stocks are finally starting to steer in the upward direction again.Investors tend to lean towards exciting stocks to take advantage of this upward movement, like cannabis or even oil and gas. But I want to take you in another, less expensive direction.There are two types of production that are increasingly growing in dema...Read More

3 Top Gold Stocks to Buy Now

March 24, 2019 / Stephanie Bedard-Chateauneuf, MBA

Gold can be a good hedge in periods of stock market volatility.We are at the late stage of the economic cycle. Usually, at this point in time, having a defensive positioning in an asset like gold is a good move. Interest rates will eventually start to tip down as the economy slows down, and that's when you want to have a hedge in a product like gold.The gold price is now trading above US$1,300 per...Read More

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