Mining Articles

Australian lithium miner, Chile's SQM choose site for new plant in West Australia

May. 4, 2018, 11:47 AM / Reuters

MELBOURNE, May 4 (Reuters) - Australian lithium miner Kidman Resources said on Friday it has chosen a site in Kwinana, Western Australia with Chilean joint venture partner SQM to develop a lithium processing plant.The JV with SQM, whose full name is Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA, has leased a site in the industrial complex south of Perth for the project, known as Western Australia Lithium,...Read More

Four miners dead and three still missing at Sibanye-Stillwater mine

May. 4, 2018, 9:50 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

Four miners have died, three remain stuck underground and two are still missing at one of Sibanye-Stillwater's (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) gold mines in South Africa following a quake caused a fall of ground Thursday, trapping a total of 13 workers.Two more quakes were felt Friday near the Masakhane mine, part of the company's Driefontein operations, where three of the workers remained trapped and two u...Read More

Seabridge Gold closes $19.73-million private placement

2018-05-04 09:37 / Mr. Rudi Fronk reports

Mr. Rudi Fronk reportsSEABRIDGE GOLD CLOSES $19.7 MILLION PRIVATE PLACEMENT OF FLOW-THROUGH SHARESSeabridge Gold Inc. has closed its previously announced non-brokered flow-through financing, including the full amount of the overallotment option, for aggregate gross proceeds of $19,734,000. A total of 1.15 million flow-through common shares of the company, including those pursuant to the exercise o...Read More

RT @jacquelinemh85: Let's see if @Eskom_SA can avoid load shedding

Fri May 04 09:10:41 2018 / Jacqueline Holman

Seven power plants have below-minimum coal stock levelsRead full newsRead More

Beta Hunt Mine Gold Production Increases for Fourth Consecutive Quarter

Fri May 04 07:44:46 2018 / Staff reporter

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Beta Hunt Mine Gold Production Increases for Fourth Consecutive Quarter

Fri May 04 07:06:16 2018 / Staff reporter

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One miner dies after being trapped in South African gold mine

Fri May 04 05:28:24 2018 / Staff reporter

Mine operator Sibanye-Stillwater said five of 13 miners trapped underground in a South African gold mine were rescued but one of the five had died.Read full newsRead More

Britons mine gold in field events

Fri May 04 05:28:22 2018 / Staff reporter

Kejuan Frazier and Andrew Strzelecki were event champions on the first day of the MIAA Outdoor Track & Field ChampionshipRead full newsRead More

South Africa miners reach $400 million silicosis settlement with mining companies

Fri May 04 05:28:21 2018 / Staff reporter

South African gold producers agreed a 5 billion rand ($400 million) class action settlement on Thursday with law firms representing thousands of miners who contracted the fatal lung diseases silicosis and tuberculosis, officials said on Thursday.Read full newsRead More

American Pacific Mining Drilling Tuscarora Gold Project

Fri May 04 05:28:19 2018 / Staff reporter

Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold profiles a company that has taken over a high-grade gold exploration project from Novo Resources.Read full newsRead More

Sibanye Searches for Seven Workers at South Africa Gold Mine

Fri May 04 05:28:18 2018 / Staff reporter

Four workers trapped underground after an earth tremor at a Sibanye Gold Ltd. mine in South Africa have died, bringing the number of people killed at the company's operations this year to at least 10.Read full newsRead More

Beta Hunt Mine Gold Production Increases for Fourth Consecutive Quarter

Fri May 04 05:28:15 2018 / Staff reporter

Beta Hunt Mine Gold Production Increases for Fourth Consecutive QuarterRead full newsRead More

Beta Hunt Mine Gold Production Increases for Fourth Consecutive Quarter

Fri May 04 04:30:18 2018 / Staff reporter

Beta Hunt Mine Gold Production Increases for Fourth Consecutive QuarterRead full newsRead More

Diamond & Specialty Minerals Summary for May 3, 2018

May 04, 2018 / Will Purcell

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Will PurcellThe diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Thursday was a ho-hum 70-80-144. The TSX Venture Exchange fell fractionally to 771 while polished diamond prices fell 0.2 per cent. Hugh Stoyell and Johnny Blizzard's Katanga Mining Ltd. (KAT), w...Read More

Energy Summary for May 3, 2018

May 04, 2018 / Stockwatch Business Reporter

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business Reporter West Texas Intermediate crude for June delivery gained 50 cents to $68.43 on the New York Merc, while Brent for June gained 26 cents to $73.62 (all figures in this para U.S.). Western Canadian Select traded at a discount of $17.55 to...Read More

Gold Summary for May 3, 2018

May 04, 2018 / Stockwatch Business Reporter

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterNew York spot gold rose $7.00 to $1,311.60 on Thursday. The TSX Venture Exchange fell 0.86 point to 771.25 while the TSX Gold Index added 1.66 points to 191.50. Detour Gold Corp. (DGC), which had a rough time last week, dropping over $...Read More

Shell Summary for May 3, 2018

May 04, 2018 / Stockwatch Business Reporter

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterThe TSX Venture Exchange fell a fraction to 771.25 Thursday. Peter McKeown has listed his first capital pool shell, MG Capital Corp. (MGX), following a $250,000 initial public offering at 10 cents through Leede Jones Gable Inc. It has...Read More

UK-based explorer granted licence surrounding historic gold mine in Sweden

May 4 2018 / Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

European focused mineral exploration company Erris Resources announced today that it was granted a new 100%-owned gold exploration permit, En??sen no.5, which is located in central Sweden, some 370 kilometres north of Stockholm.The 59.4 km2 permit encompasses a largely unexplored area surrounding the historic En??sen mine, which produced 1.7-million tonnes at 3 g/t gold between 1984 and 1991. Mine...Read More

Paris asks insurers to ditch coal

May 4 2018 / Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

Paris City Council passed a motion last night where its members ask the CEOs of the world's largest insurance and reinsurance companies to stop insuring coal projects.The call comes just a few weeks before an annual meeting to be held in the City of Light from May 30 to June 2, 2018, and which is expected to be attended by representatives of the most important insurance companies on the planet. In...Read More

Tesla delivers bad news for cobalt price, boost for rare earths - by Frik Els (Mining.com - May 3, 2018)

May 4 2018 / Staff reporter

http://www.mining.com/Wall Street is aghast at Elon Musk's dismissive attitude toward analysts' probing following a quarter of record (but less than expected) losses for Tesla, but the electric vehicle maker did provide some answers to questions that's been vexing the mining industry.Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a provider of price information and research on battery supply chains, parsed the n...Read More

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