Mining Articles

Incidents of black lung vastly under-reported in US Appalachia - NPR

Dec. 18, 2018, 3:04 PM / Amanda Stutt

An epidemic is killing thousands of coal miners, and regulators could have stopped it, according to a joint National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS Frontline investigation.'Black lung' has been plaguing coal miners for generations across Appalachian states, and in Virginia, NPR tracked the plights of former coal miners suffering from the disease.The multiyear investigation found that the former coal...Read More

Seabridge on trail of large sulphide-bearing intrusion at Iskut

Dec. 18, 2018, 2:55 PM / Canadian Mining Journal Staff

BRITISH COLUMBIA - Toronto-based Seabridge Gold has promising induced potential and drilling results from its 100% owned Iskut gold property 110 km northwest of Stewart. All indications point toward a large copper-gold porphyry system.The results indicate a robust hydrothermal breccia containing abundant clasts of chalcopyrite-pyrite-magnetite in veined intrusive rocks and stock works positioned o...Read More

Seabridge on trail of large sulphide-bearing intrusion at Iskut

Dec. 18, 2018, 2:55 PM / Canadian Mining Journal Staff

BRITISH COLUMBIA - Toronto-based Seabridge Gold has promising induced potential and drilling results from its 100% owned Iskut gold property 110 km northwest of Stewart. All indications point toward a large copper-gold porphyry system.The results indicate a robust hydrothermal breccia containing abundant clasts of chalcopyrite-pyrite-magnetite in veined intrusive rocks and stock works positioned o...Read More

NexTech AR (@ARitize_app) (#CSE: $NTAR | #OTC: $NEXCF) CEO Evan Gappelberg Buys 500,000 Shares [...

Tue Dec 18 14:46:58 2018 / ARitize

"NexTech AR (@ARitize_app) (#CSE: $NTAR | #OTC: $NEXCF) CEO Evan Gappelberg Buys 500,000 Shares [https://t.co/OEqOoRwaot]#investing #stocks #stockmarket #trading #investors #news #investing #business #investments #tech #augmentedreality #AR #technology"Read full newsRead More

Weekly Big News Round-Up. What happened in the Resource sector in the past week? Find out here:...

Tue Dec 18 14:37:01 2018 / Staff reporter

"Weekly Big News Round-Up. What happened in the Resource sector in the past week? Find out here: https://t.co/fWmc2mr8Yi #resource #mining #investing"Read full newsRead More

Weekend Unlimited (@WeekndUnlimited) (#CSE: $YOLO) Appoints Mr. Paul Chu as President & CEO [...

Tue Dec 18 14:33:59 2018 / Weekend Unlimited

"Weekend Unlimited (@WeekndUnlimited) (#CSE: $YOLO) Appoints Mr. Paul Chu as President & CEO [https://t.co/Lna6045fQr]#POTstocks #investing #stocks #stockmarket #trading #investors #news #business #cannabis #investments #cannabisdaily #CBD #hemp #THC #marijuana #marijuanastocks"Read full newsRead More

Skyharbour cuts high grades at Maverick zone on Moore project

Dec. 18, 2018, 2:23 PM / Canadian Mining Journal Staff

SASKATCHEWAN - Fifteen kilometres from the rapidly advancing Wheeler River project, Vancouver's Skyharbour Resources is finding high grades at the Moore uranium project.Drill hole ML18-14 intersected high grade uranium mineralization within the Main Maverick zone consisting of 3.11% uranium oxide over 1.8 metres within an interval of 15.2 metres containing 0.56% uranium oxide. This is one of the b...Read More

Skyharbour cuts high grades at Maverick zone on Moore project

Dec. 18, 2018, 2:23 PM / Canadian Mining Journal Staff

SASKATCHEWAN - Fifteen kilometres from the rapidly advancing Wheeler River project, Vancouver's Skyharbour Resources is finding high grades at the Moore uranium project.Drill hole ML18-14 intersected high grade uranium mineralization within the Main Maverick zone consisting of 3.11% uranium oxide over 1.8 metres within an interval of 15.2 metres containing 0.56% uranium oxide. This is one of the b...Read More

Insiders bet the market is too cold on American Hotel Income REIT

Tue, 18/12/2018 2:05 pm / Ted Dixon

Insider buying is starting to jump on the back of the recent sell-off. In fact, there are so many stocks making our INK Edge screens, we will not have the time to cover them all in the morning report by year's end. So, make sure to keep an eye on our INK Edge feature updated on the website early every morning. One stock where insiders are buying big is American Hotel Income Properties REIT LP (Mo...Read More

North America's highest-paid #mining CEO last year was Cleveland-Cliffs' Lourenco Gon??alves, now best known for los...

Tue Dec 18 14:01:45 2018 / Staff reporter

"North America's highest-paid #mining CEO last year was Cleveland-Cliffs' Lourenco Gon??alves, now best known for losing his rag on an analyst call. He was paid US$23.8M in 2017. https://t.co/AMNHtN0G8E"Read full newsRead More

New ramp at BHP's Olympic Dam doubles capacity

Dec. 18, 2018, 1:55 PM / Canadian Mining Journal Staff

AUSTRALIA - BHP Group has commissioned the new ramp at its Olympic Dam iron ore-copper-gold mine, and it doubles the haulage capacity for its trucks. The Kalta decline is key to reaching the Southern mine area where BHP is mining high grade copper resources.BHP spent A$250 million to develop the Southern mine area, and another $40 million on the ramp. The first ore from the area was produced in mi...Read More

Fremont Identifies New Drill Targets at the Gold Canyon Project Nevada @Fremont_Gold

Tue Dec 18 13:11:38 2018 / Fremont Gold

Fremont Gold Ltd. (TSXV:FRE) (FSE:FR2) (OTC Pink:USTDF) (Read full newsRead More

Copper price falls despite China's promise of more 'economic miracles'

Dec. 18, 2018, 1:10 PM / Frik Els

Industrial metals came under renewed pressure on Tuesday after a defiant speech from China's president Xi Jinping diminished hopes of an early settlement in the top commodity importer's intensifying trade dispute with the US.President Jinping used the occasion of the 40-year anniversary of the start of China's "Reform and Opening Up" to congratulate the stewardship of the communist party and reaf...Read More

Copper price falls despite China's promise of more 'economic miracles'

Dec. 18, 2018, 1:10 PM / Frik Els

Industrial metals came under renewed pressure on Tuesday after a defiant speech from China's president Xi Jinping diminished hopes of an early settlement in the top commodity importer's intensifying trade dispute with the US.President Jinping used the occasion of the 40-year anniversary of the start of China's "Reform and Opening Up" to congratulate the stewardship of the communist party and reaf...Read More

Orsu Metals Demonstrates up to 89% Recovery from Initial Metallurgical Tests on Primary Sulphide Material at the Kl...

Tue Dec 18 13:06:32 2018 / Staff reporter

"Orsu Metals Demonstrates up to 89% Recovery from Initial Metallurgical Tests on Primary Sulphide Material at the Klyuchi West zone, Sergeevskoe Gold Project, Russia https://t.co/b0pdvmcQFw"Read full newsRead More

Constantine boosts resource at Palmer with second deposit

Dec. 18, 2018, 1:01 PM / Northern Miner Staff

Constantine Metal Resources (TSXV: CEM; US-OTC: CNSNF) has boosted the overall tonnage at its Palmer polymetallic project in southeast Alaska by 43% with a maiden resource for the project's AG zone.The AG zone, located 3 km from the main Palmer deposit, contains 4.25 million inferred tonnes grading 4.64% zinc, 0.12% copper, 0.96% lead, 119.5 grams silver, 0.53 gram gold and 34% barite, or 9.04% zi...Read More

Global Witness welcomes Canadian regulator ruling on Glencore-controlled company and executives

Dec. 18, 2018, 12:44 PM / Global Witness

The Glencore-controlled mining company Katanga Mining has today agreed to pay USD $22 million to settle allegations by Canadian regulators that it had failed to comply with disclosure requirements, including that it had not properly described risks of doing business with a controversial middleman in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Several of Katanga's current and former directors and executive...Read More

Nigeria's first gold refinery plans to triple capacity in five years

Dec. 18, 2018, 11:58 AM / Reuters

LAGOS - Nigeria's first gold refinery is expected to more than triple its capacity within five years after operations begin next June, an executive at the company developing it said on Tuesday.Nere Teriba, vice chairman of local firm Kian Smith Trade & Co, said the refinery would initially be able to produce three tonnes per month of gold and one tonne of silver, rising to 10 tonnes a month of gol...Read More

As global equities take a hit, gold miners are doing fine

Dec. 18, 2018, 11:34 AM / Bloomberg News

Global equity markets are getting beaten up, but gold miners have been spared as haven demand swells and bullion's outlook brightens.Newcrest Mining Ltd., Australia's top producer, rallied as much as 2.3 percent on Tuesday, while South Africa's Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd. was the biggest mover, rising 3.8 percent. Canada's Barrick Gold Corp. - which is taking over rival Randgold Resources Ltd. -...Read More

This odd couple plots to save $100B gold mining business

Dec. 18, 2018, 10:57 AM / Bloomberg News

John Thornton is a Goldman Sachs alumnus educated at Yale, Harvard and Oxford. Mark Bristow is a South African geologist and big-game hunter.Together, this corporate odd couple has a plan to turn around the lagging fortunes of the world's largest gold-mining company, whose shares are down 67 percent from their high in 2010. Thornton, executive chairman of Barrick Gold Corp., set the partnership in...Read More

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