ONTARIO - Toronto-based North American Palladium has signed a major mine development contract with Redpath Canada of North Bay, Ont. Redpath. The expansion will double the capacity of the mine and mill to 12,000 t/d from 6,000 t/d. The project is 85 km northwest of Thunder Bay.The contractor will conduct underground development for a major expansion at the Lac des Iles palladium mine. To access or...Read More
SASKATCHEWAN - UEX Corporation has released the maiden resource estimate for its 60% owned Christie Lake uranium joint venture. JCU (Canada) Exploration Co. is the 40% owner of the project located 9 km northeast of and along strike of the McArthur River uranium mine in the Athabasca Basin.The project is still in the early stages, and the drill holes were widely spaced, but the inferred resource is...Read More
SASKATCHEWAN - UEX Corporation has released the maiden resource estimate for its 60% owned Christie Lake uranium joint venture. JCU (Canada) Exploration Co. is the 40% owner of the project located 9 km northeast of and along strike of the McArthur River uranium mine in the Athabasca Basin.The project is still in the early stages, and the drill holes were widely spaced, but the inferred resource is...Read More
Ontario's Government for the People is supporting economic growth in Nipissing with more than $2.3 million in investments through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund.Today, Vic Fedeli, MPP for Nipissing, announced an investment of more than $2.1 million in four local mining supply and service companies, which will create 46 full-time and two part-time jobs. The investments include: $1.4 million f...Read More
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MELBOURNE - Australia's Kidman Resources has signed a preliminary deal to supply lithium hydroxide to LG Chem Ltd of South Korea, Kidman said on Wednesday, as suppliers to the electric vehicle industry rush to secure raw materials for a boom in demand.Kidman will supply 12,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide a year to the diversified chemicals company for 10 years A final deal is expected by July 31,...Read More
In response to a written request by Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines, the Canadian Competition Bureau will examine retail gasoline prices in northwestern Ontario.On November 30, Minister Rickford drew the Bureau's attention to evidence that gasoline prices in northwestern Ontario did not decrease as they did in the rest of Ontario when the cap-and-trade carbon tax...Read More
JOHANNESBURG - A South African union has filed an appeal to overturn a mining deal in which Sibanye-Stillwater intends to acquire rival Lonmin , Sibanye said on Wednesday.The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), protesting to job cuts related to the deal, launched an appeal with the Competition Appeals Court. The union's action comes almost a month after the Competition Tribun...Read More
Preliminary results from a bulk sample taken at its Windfall Lake deposit in Quebec delivered an average head grade of 9.7 grams gold per tonne and 5.5 grams silver per tonne, Osisko Mining (TSX: OSK) reports.The sample head grade from Zone 27 is 39% higher than indicated in the resource block model for the area, a "strong result" and "an early Christmas gift to our shareholders," John Burzynski,...Read More
Preliminary results from a bulk sample taken at its Windfall Lake deposit in Quebec delivered an average head grade of 9.7 grams gold per tonne and 5.5 grams silver per tonne, Osisko Mining (TSX: OSK) reports.The sample head grade from Zone 27 is 39% higher than indicated in the resource block model for the area, a "strong result" and "an early Christmas gift to our shareholders," John Burzynski,...Read More
It all started so well in 2018 for investors in European metal and mining stocks, as copper led a base-metals rally to multi-year highs in a time before trade turmoil gripped markets. But, as the year closes, the sector index is languishing about 25 percent below its June peak.Fractious rhetoric between Washington and Beijing over tariffs, plus growing worries about the state of China's economy un...Read More
The Marac??s Menchen MineLargo Resources (TSX: LGO; US-OTC: LGORF) drilled 24 holes totalling 4,223 metres during phase two drilling at its Novo Amparo Norte (NAN) vanadium deposit. The deposit lies 6.5 km north of Largo's Campbell pit at its Maracas Menchen vanadium mine in Bahia State, Brazil. NAN is the northernmost zone of known mineralization at the project.Highlights from the program's first...Read More
American insider sentiment is climbing which suggests the trend is for stocks to become cheaper. That is good news for investors with patient cash and looking for bargains, but bad news for long bulls who hunger for a quick turnaround in stocks.Click for largerThe near-term path for stocks may well depend on what the Federal Reserve does with interest rates Wednesday and the approach it sets for...Read More
SPOKANE, WA - The American Exploration & Mining Association (AEMA) honored NOVAGOLD Resources Inc. with AEMA's Platinum Award for Corporate Excellence at its 124th Annual Meeting earlier this month in Spokane, WA. The award was presented to NOVAGOLD for designing the Donlin Gold project to incorporate a strong culture of safety, environmental stewardship, and community engagement with the potentia...Read More
It was a great year for Africa-focused Gem Diamonds (LON:GEMD), as the company recovered a record number of huge precious stones from its flagship Let??eng mine in Lesotho.With the two latest, a high quality 101 carat and 71 carat white Type IIa diamond, both recovered within a 24-hour period, the number of stones over 100 carats dug up at the mine reached a record 14, the company said Wednesday...Read More
BEIJING - Representatives from China's biggest aluminium producers will hold a meeting in the southern region of Guangxi to discuss slumping demand and falling prices, three sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.The producers held a similar gathering in late 2015 and the meeting comes as a protracted price decline leaves smelters struggling to turn a profit, even after significant out...Read More
JAKARTA - Copper miner Freeport-McMoRan Inc must pay Indonesia 460 billion rupiah ($32 million) in royalties for thousands of hectares of protected forest it used without a permit, Indonesia's Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) said on Wednesday.A 2017 state audit of operations at Freeport Indonesia's Grasberg copper mine, the world's second largest, pointed to the miner's use of more than 4,000 hectares...Read More
"Glencore subsidiary Katanga Mining has accepted it misled markets over #DRC risk and its ties to Dan Gertler, as alleged by regulators.It was fined US$22m and CEO Johnny Blizzard has been turfed out ($) | https://t.co/jGNVBrC991"Read full newsRead More
* BP launches sale of seven packages in U.S. shale basins* Interested buyers include Carlyle, Warburg Pincus* Assets are mostly gas-rich which may deter some investorsLONDON/NEW YORK - Britain's BP has launched the sale of U.S. oil and gas onshore assets that could raise more than $3 billion to help pay for other fields in the United States it bought in October from BHP, industry and banking sourc...Read More
AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. is considering listing its shares in either London or Toronto in a move that could see the company hive off its remaining South African operations, according to people familiar with the situation.While no final decision has been made, the world's third-largest gold producer has been discussing the plan internally and with advisers, said the people, who asked not to be identi...Read More