Mining Articles

SilverCrest Reports Best Drill Hole Intercept to Date, More High-Grades at Las Chispas

2018-11-01 07:57 / Staff reporter

9.9 Metres Grading 3,212 gpt AgEq3.5 Metres Grading 4,570 gpt AgEq11.1 Metres Grading 879 gpt AgEqVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - November 1, 2018) -  SilverCrest Metals Inc. (TSXV: SIL) (NYSE American: SILV) ("SilverCrest" or the "Company") is pleased to announce further Phase III drill results for the Las Chispas Property (the "Property") located in Sonora, Mex...Read More

Corvus\'s North Bullfrog PEA pegs NPV at $586M (U.S.)

2018-11-01 07:57 / Mr. Jeffrey Pontius reports

Mr. Jeffrey Pontius reportsCORVUS GOLD, PRELIMINARY ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT RESULTS FOR COMBINED NORTH BULLFROG AND MOTHER LODE DEPOSITS, NEVADACorvus Gold Inc. has provided its results for its initial preliminary economic assessment (PEA) combining the North Bullfrog-Mother Lode projects in southwest Nevada. Results outline a large new Nevada mining project with attractive preliminary production stat...Read More

Hudbay shrugs off investor concerns, buys Nevada copper junior

Nov. 1, 2018, 7:53 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

Canadian miner Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) has shrugged off some shareholders concerns about the company not being in position to buy new assets, and announced the acquisition of Mason Resources (TSX:MNR) for C$31 million (about $24m).Disclosing the deal after the market closed on Wednesday, Hudbay president and chief executive officer Alan Hair said that while the company believed the most...Read More

Hudbay shrugs off investor concerns, buys Nevada copper junior

Nov. 1, 2018, 7:53 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

Canadian miner Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) has shrugged off some shareholders concerns about the company not being in position to buy new assets, and announced the acquisition of Mason Resources (TSX:MNR) for C$31 million (about $24m).Disclosing the deal after the market closed on Wednesday, Hudbay president and chief executive officer Alan Hair said that while the company believed the most...Read More

Spearmint buys gold prospect in southern BC

Nov. 1, 2018, 7:27 AM / MINING.com Staff

Spearmint Resources (CSE:SPMT) announced today that it has acquired the 'Hammernose' gold prospect consisting of 5,140 acres directly bordering the strategic alliance between Westhaven Resources and Sable Resource in the Spences Bridge gold belt, which is located in Southern British Columbia, Canada.According to Spearmint, Spences Bridge is a 200-kilometre-long by 30-kilometre-wide emerging low-su...Read More

Gold project in French Guiana moving forward

Nov. 1, 2018, 7:06 AM / MINING.com Staff

Although faced with a comprehensive assessment process and the fact that the French government formed a special committee to evaluate in detail the social and economic benefits and impacts of the gold mining industry in French Guiana, Columbus Gold (TSX:CGT) issued a statement today saying that its Montagne d'Or gold project, which is located in the overseas territory, is moving forward with permi...Read More

Mining veteran wants to build a $1B battery metals giant

Nov. 1, 2018, 6:39 AM / Bloomberg News

South African mining veteran Brian Menell wants to build a battery material giant to help challenge China's domination of the nascent industry.It's still early days for his privately funded company, TechMet Ltd., which controls just a handful of assets from Canada to Rwanda. But he's raising more money and sees countries such as the U.S. and Japan as potential partners to help catch China in the r...Read More

Glencore pushing back on recent lazy analyst & media reports predicting new low-cost Chinese HPAL plants. A must-re...

Thu Nov 01 04:57:20 2018 / Staff reporter

"Glencore pushing back on recent lazy analyst & media reports predicting new low-cost Chinese HPAL plants. A must-read for #nickel market participants https://t.co/YfyK1vl1Im"Read full newsRead More

Gold Fields workers to strike over planned 1,100 job cuts at South Deep

Nov. 1, 2018, 3:49 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

South African miner Gold Fields (NYSE, JSE:GFI) revealed Thursday the biggest union at its massive, but struggling South Deep mine is going on strike on Friday over the company's planned job cuts, which Chief Executive Officer Nick Holland has called a "last-gasp measure."The gold miner is axing about 1,100 jobs, almost third of the workforce at the mine - its only one left in South Africa - a...Read More

Guyana Goldfields cuts production guidance at Aurora

November 1, 2018 / Posted Trish Saywell

Shares of Guyana Goldfields (TSX: GUY; US-OTC: GUYFF) plunged 46% to $1.62 on news that the company has cut its 2018 production guidance and launched a review of the underlying resource model at its Aurora gold mine.The company has hired engineering firm RPA Inc. to investigate the geologic controls and grade variability of the mine's Rory's Knoll deposit. Results of the review will be released in...Read More

Despite Poor Results, This Silver Miner Is an Attractive Contrarian Play on Precious Metals

November 1, 2018 / Matt Smith

Sharply weak silver is weighing heavily on primary silver miners with some of the hardest hit being smaller miners. Among the worst affected is one-time market darling Great Panther Silver (TSX:GPR)(NYSE:GPL), which has seen its stock plunge by a whopping 51% since the start of 2018 compared to silver only shedding 15%. The primary silver miner's latest results have not helped assuage market conce...Read More

Canadian Investors: It’s Time to Check Out These FANG Stocks

November 1, 2018 / Nelson Smith

October has traditionally been a poor month for stocks, but it's doubtful that even the most bearish investors could have predicted this year's carnage.The TSX Composite Index has declined 8.4% from the 1st to the 30th of October. The S&P 500 has performed even worse, falling more than 9% during the same period. Both these results look pretty good against the NASDAQ 100, which is down nearly 1...Read More

The Homebuilder Stock Train Wreck

November 1, 2018 / admin

One of the proprietors of StockBoardAsset.com tweeted about two weeks ago wondering when the stock market was going to start pricing in a slow-down in the economy. To that I responded by pointing out that the DJ Home Construction index is starting to price in a housing market crash. Residential construction + all economic activity connected to selling and financing existing homes is probably aroun...Read More

Alliance to drill for vanadium on Nevada project

November 1, 2018 / Resource World

From left to right, the late Paul Burkett, Roy Davis, Tom GeswicAlliance Mining Corp. [ALM-TSXV] on Thursday November 1 said recent analysis of the 2006 drill logs from its Tonopah uranium project in Nevada has revealed the presence of vanadium in both the oxidized and non-oxidized clastic sediments.Alliance Mining shares rallied on the news, rising 40% or $0.01 to 3.5 cents.Alliance said vanadium...Read More

SilverCrest Reports Best Drill Hole Intercept to Date, More High-Grades at Las Chispas; 9.9 Metres Grading 3,212 gpt AgEq, 3.5 Metres Grading 4,570 gpt AgEq, 11.1 Metres Grading 879 gpt AgEq

November 1, 2018 / Resource World

Note: all numbers are rounded.* AgEq based on 75 (Ag):1 (Au) calculated using long-term silver and gold prices of US$18.50 per ounce silver andUS$1,225 per ounce gold, with average metallurgical recoveries of 86.6% silver and 98.9% gold.**UB signifies an underground core hole. BA is a surface core hole.All assays were completed by ALS Chemex in Hermosillo, Mexico, and North Vancouver, BC, Canada.H...Read More

Divisive Minnesota mine wins permits, but faces challenges

November 1, 2018 / CanadianInvestor

MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota regulators on Thursday granted key permits to the long-planned PolyMet copper-mining project that's opposed by environmentalists who fear it could someday foul waters, including Lake Superior.The state Department of Natural Resources issued permits to PolyMet Mining Inc. for the company's proposed NorthMet project in northeastern Minnesota. The project still needs permits f...Read More

Higher oil prices and production gains drive operating earnings beat at Suncor

November 1, 2018 / CanadianInvestor

CALGARY - Suncor Energy Inc. is reporting third-quarter operating income of $1.56 billion, an 80 per cent increase over $867 million in the same period of 2017.The earnings amount to 96 cents per share, in line with analyst expectations of 95 cents according to Thomson Reuters Eikon, but well ahead of 52 cents in the third quarter of 2017.Suncor attributes the increase to higher crude oil prices a...Read More

Encana to buy Newfield Exploration in all-stock deal, plans to raise dividend

November 1, 2018 / CanadianInvestor

CALGARY - Encana Corp. has signed a deal to acquire Newfield Exploration Co. in an all-stock offer it said was worth about US$5.5 billion.Under the deal announced Thursday, Newfield shareholders will receive 2.6719 Encana shares for each share of Newfield common stock.Encana will also assume US$2.2 billion of Newfield debt."This strategic combination advances our strategy and is immediately accre...Read More

Time to Buy U.S. Pot Stocks

November1, 2018 / Jeff Siegel

We all knew it was going to happen.Well, at least those of us who paid attention.The huge run on Canadian cannabis stocks did, in fact, come to an end just as legalization kicked in.Of course, it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.You know the drill...Buy the rumor, sell the news.And that's exactly what we did.The result?Members of my Green Chip Stocks community just bagged the...Read More

Premier Gold Mines Ltd (TSX: PG): Gold Producer, with High-Quality Pipeline of Precious Metal Projects in World Class Districts; Interview with Ewan Downie, President and CEO

1/11/2018 / Dr. Allen Alper, PhD Economic Geology and Petrology, Columbia University, NYC, USA

Premier Gold Mines Limited (TSX:PG) is a gold producer, with a high-quality pipeline of precious metal projects in proven, accessible and safe mining jurisdictions in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The goal is to evolve into a low-cost, mid-tier gold producer, through its two producing mines and the development of its Hardrock Project in Ontario (Greenstone Gold JV) and McCoy-Cove Property...Read More

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