Mining Articles

Falcon Stakes Second Block of Claim Units for Coomer Lake Vanadium-titanium Project, Northern Ontario...

Wed Mar 20 12:55:15 2019 / Staff reporter

"Falcon Stakes Second Block of Claim Units for Coomer Lake Vanadium-titanium Project, Northern Ontario @FalconGoldCorp https://t.co/Mbs5DvIYB8"Read full newsRead More

IsoEnergy Continues to Intersect Strong Pitchblende Uranium Mineralization in Step-out Drilling Confirming over 150 m of Strike Extent at the Hurricane Discovery

March 20, 2019 12:54:04 / Staff reporter

is pleased to announce that the final drill holes in the winter drilling campaign have intersected intervals of strong radioactivity associated with pitchblende uranium mineralization at the Hurricane zone. The Hurricane zone is a new discovery of high-grade uranium on the Company's 100% owned Larocque East Property in the eastern Athabasca basin region of Saskatchewan (Figure 1), home to the worl...Read More

EU Slaps #Google With $1.7 Billion Fine Over "Anti-Competitive Behavior" | Zero Hedge

Wed Mar 20 12:10:14 2019 / Staff reporter

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RT @zerohedge: Bayer Battered After Suffering "Major Blow" From Second RoundUp Cancer-Trial Loss

Wed Mar 20 11:27:42 2019 / zerohedge

Bayer AG shares are down over 12% in European trading - the biggest drop since 2003 - after a U.S. jury found the RoundUp weed killer was a substantial factor in a California man's cancer...Read full newsRead More

Canada Cobalt Works is the player to watch in Northern Ontario's Cobalt Camp! Stay Tuned Read About it:...

Wed Mar 20 10:30:32 2019 / Staff reporter

"Canada Cobalt Works is the player to watch in Northern Ontario's Cobalt Camp! Stay Tuned Read About it: https://t.co/W4OZqg5Xrz #CCW $CCW @canadacobalt #Cobalt #Mining #CCW.V #Silver #TSXV #SmallCaps #batterymetals #momentumstocks"Read full newsRead More

SK Innovation CEO sees EV battery business breaking even by 2021

Mar. 20, 2019, 9:27 AM / Bloomberg News

SK Innovation Co., a supplier to automakers including Volkswagen AG, is aiming to break even on its electric-vehicle battery business by 2021, when it expects to reach mass production rates at plants being built now.The South Korean company, which earns money today from its core oil-refining and petrochemical operations, expects to ramp up EV battery-cell capacity from about 5 gigawatt hours now t...Read More

Coal mining comes back to the UK with $218 million project

Mar. 20, 2019, 9:15 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

A new ?165 million (about $218 million) coal mine, Woodhouse Colliery, has been unanimously approved by councillors in the county of Cumbria, in northwest England. The mine promises hundreds of jobs, but also protests by environmental activists.West Cumbria Mining plans to open the country's first new deep coal mine next to the site of the former Hag colliery in Whitehaven, which closed down t...Read More

Cyclone lurks off West Australia as storm hits Rio mine in East

Mar. 20, 2019, 9:14 AM / Bloomberg News

Gas and iron ore operations on Australia's west coast are bracing for an approaching cyclone just as a severe storm in the nation's northeast dumps heavy rain on Rio Tinto Group's biggest bauxite mine.Tropical cyclone Veronica is 545 kilometers (339 miles) north of Port Hedland, a key export point for Western Australia's iron ore shipments. The storm is forecast to intensify as it moves closer to...Read More

South African court rules extension of wage agreement to AMCU valid and lawful

Mar. 20, 2019, 9:04 AM / Reuters

South Africa's labour court ruled on Wednesday that the extension of a wage agreement to cover all gold unions and non-unionised employees of mining group Sibanye-Stillwater is valid and lawful, the miner said.Sibanye had in December extended the agreement, reached the previous month with the National Union of Mineworkers, UASA and Solidarity, to all employees at its South African gold operations,...Read More

Data scientists and geoscientists offered A$1m to predict next big mineral deposit in South Australia

Mar. 20, 2019, 7:16 AM / MINING.com Staff

Energy and resources open innovation platform Unearthed joined forces with Adelaide-based OZ Minerals to launch the Explorer Challenge, a competition that brings together data scientists, geoscientists and mining professionals to create machine learning-based mining solutions.Competitors who achieve the goal of predicting the next big mineral deposit in South Australia using real geoscientific dat...Read More

Australian scientists developing tool capable of delving deeper into Earth's rock layers

Mar. 20, 2019, 7:02 AM / MINING.com Staff

Researchers at Australia's Curtin University announced that they are working on a project to develop a new fingerprinting tool capable of delving deeper into the Earth's rock layers.In a press release, the scientists said the mechanism promises to be crucial for the country's mining and petroleum sectors because it will enhance their understanding of the Earth's sedimentary rocks.Northern Star Res...Read More

Petra Diamonds keeps founder Pouroulis as chairman

Mar. 20, 2019, 6:55 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

South Africa's Petra Diamonds (LON:PDL) is keeping founder Adonis Pouroulis as chairman, despite some shareholders voting against his renewal at the 2018 annual general meeting.The company, which last month appointed former gold miner Richard Duffy as chief executive effective in April, said the appointment of a new chair was "not appropriate" at this time.Petra said the board and nomination comm...Read More

One of last year's best-performing hedge funds says the "trade of the century" is to buy gold and sell stocks...

Wed Mar 20 05:21:08 2019 / Staff reporter

"One of last year's best-performing hedge funds says the "trade of the century" is to buy gold and sell stocks https://t.co/b5C8ytrbEA via @markets"Read full newsRead More

One of last year's best-performing hedge funds says the "trade of the century" is to buy gold and sell stocks...

Wed Mar 20 05:21:08 2019 / Staff reporter

"One of last year's best-performing hedge funds says the "trade of the century" is to buy gold and sell stocks https://t.co/b5C8ytrbEA via @markets"Read full newsRead More

Lousy productivity keeps inflation risk alive

Wed, 20/03/2019 4:24 am / Ted Dixon

With the Fed expected to leave interest rates unchanged at its meeting today, short of a surprise hawkish approach towards inflation, we suspect factors other than changes in monetary policy will be driving gold stocks for the foreseeable future. With that in mind, we thought our comments contained in the March Top 20 Gold Stock report remain timely for investors.One of the themes we continue to...Read More

Imperial Metals pulls 'a rabbit out of the hat' with deal

Wed Mar 20 02:45:30 2019 / Business In Vancouver

Investors 'flabbergasted' at $1.1b stake taken in Red Chris mine by Australia's NewcrestRead full newsRead More

Imperial Metals pulls 'a rabbit out of the hat' with deal

Wed Mar 20 02:45:30 2019 / Business In Vancouver

Investors 'flabbergasted' at $1.1b stake taken in Red Chris mine by Australia's NewcrestRead full newsRead More

Australian junior wants to grab Glencore's copper mine for $575 million

Mar. 20, 2019, 2:35 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

Australian copper junior Aeris Resources (ASX: AIS) revealed on Wednesday that it had offered miner and commodities trader Glencore (LON: GLEN) $575 million for its CSA copper operation.Aeris said negotiations to buy the mine were at a late stage, adding that the offer consisted of $525 million in cash, $50 million in the company's shares and a royalty payable to Glencore.Aeris Resources' outsized...Read More

Peekaboo Beans Opens Flagship Store in Greater Vancouver Area

March 20, 2019 01:10:12 / Staff reporter

Vancouver, BC - Peekaboo Beans Inc (CSE:BEAN | OTCQB:PBBSF) (the "Company" or "Peekaboo Beans"), is pleased to announce the Company is opening a permanent location in Tsawwassen Mills following the successful course of Peekaboo Beans' trial pop-up shops across the country. The store is now open in the updated location within the mall, which is conveniently located in the busy 'kid zone'. Th...Read More

Scrapbook: YMP Awards gala

March 20, 2019 / Posted John Cumming

The Young Mining Professionals (YMP) - a non-profit group with chapters in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Sudbury, Perth, Brisbane, Johannesburg and London - held its third annual YMP Awards gala in Toronto in early March, with Mining Professional of the Year awards for 2018 handed out to Andr?(C)e St-Germain, chief financial officer of Integra Resources and Jos?(C) Vizquerra, executive vice-presid...Read More

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