Mining Articles

Great Bear Expands Red Lake Drilling to 10,000 Metres and Announces Private Placement

Thu Apr 19 13:31:03 2018 / Staff reporter

Great Bear Resources (TSXV:GBR) (the 'Company' or 'Great Bear') today announced expansion of its ongoing 3,000 metre drill program in the Red Lake district, Ontario to 10,000 metres.Read full newsRead More

Sage Gold mill processes 6,252 dry tonnes in latest run

2018-04-19 13:30 / Mr. Nigel Lees reports

Mr. Nigel Lees reportsCLAVOS APRIL MILL RUN UPDATESage Gold Inc. has completed its latest bulk sample mill run. The custom mill processed 6,252 dry tonnes of mineralized material yielding approximately 513 ounces of gold.The mineralized material in the April mill run was sourced from the 150 West, 150 East, 175 East and 200-metre levels.More specifically, the milled material comprised Clavos broke...Read More

Trump's latest plan for saving coal comes from the Cold War

Apr. 19, 2018, 1:01 PM / Bloomberg News

(Bloomberg) - Months into the Korean War, President Harry Truman capped wages and imposed price controls on the steel industry, seizing authority under a newly passed law to take action in the name of national defense.Now, more than a half century later, Trump administration officials are considering using the same statute to keep struggling coal and nuclear power plants online, according to four...Read More

China, the highly problematic saviour of the global aluminium market? Andy Home

Apr. 19, 2018, 11:43 AM / Reuters

LONDON, April 18 (Reuters) - The shocks from the imposition of U.S. sanctions on Oleg Deripaska and his UC Rusal aluminium empire are still rolling through the market.After Rio Tinto last week flagged it was declaring force majeure on some raw material contracts, it warned today of potential "adjustments" to its aluminium guidance this year due to the sanctions.Some of Japan's major trading houses...Read More

Canada's Copper Mountain grabs Altona Mining in $72-million deal

Apr. 19, 2018, 11:13 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

Canada's Copper Mountain Mining (TSX:CMMC) has completed the acquisition of Australian junior Altona Mining (ASX:AOH) for A$93 million, or about $72 million at today's rates.As part of the deal, each Altona share will be exchanged for 0.0974 Copper Mountain shares, which equates to a 41.7% premium based on closing prices at the time of both companies first agreed on the deal, in November.The m...Read More

Weir to buy Esco to add mining equipment as company revamps

Apr. 19, 2018, 10:47 AM / Bloomberg News

(Bloomberg) - Weir Group Plc plans to acquire U.S. competitor Esco Corp. as the U.K. maker of industrial pumps strengthens its focus on the mining industry in a $1.29 billion deal including debt.Weir rose to the highest in almost three months on Thursday after the Glasgow-based manufacturer said the purchase will produce $30 million in cost savings and add to earnings in its first year. The compa...Read More

Sanctions fallout upends metals as aluminum, nickel burst higher

Apr. 19, 2018, 10:35 AM / Bloomberg News

(Bloomberg) - The turmoil unleashed by U.S. sanctions against United Co. Rusal kept reverberating through metals markets, sending aluminum and nickel to multi-year highs.Commodities markets have been rocked for the past two weeks by the clampdown on Russia's Rusal, the largest aluminum supplier outside China, setting off a rush for alternative supplies and stirring concern that further U.S. actio...Read More

Labrador Iron Ore says workers reject IOC labor agreement

Apr. 19, 2018, 10:13 AM / Reuters

April 18 (Reuters) - Workers on strike at a mine operated by Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) rejected a new labor agreement, minor stakeholder Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corp said on Wednesday.Shares of Labrador Iron Ore, which has a 15 percent stake in the company, fell 5 percent.Some 1,300 unionized workers walked off the job at the Labrador City mine in Eastern Canada on March 27 after rejectin...Read More

Ontario Supporting Tourism, Job Growth in the North

April 19, 2018 10:00 A.M. / Ministry of Northern Development and Mines

Ontario is helping communities create jobs and boost economic growth by supporting projects that will revitalize, expand and increase accessibility in the province's Northern tourism sector.Bill Mauro, MPP for Thunder Bay-Atikokan, was in Thunder Bay today on behalf of Michael Gravelle, Minister of Northern Development and Mines, to announce new provincial funding for tourism projects across the N...Read More

Australia's South32 sees brighter manganese outlook, shares soar

Apr. 19, 2018, 9:58 AM / Reuters

SYDNEY, April 19 (Reuters) - Australia's South32 Ltd , the world No. 1 manganese producer, on Thursday raised its output guidance for the steelmaking ingredient amid strong demand and high prices related to U.S. sanctions against Russia, sending its shares to an all-time high.The company, spun off from mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd in 2015, said Australian manganese output rose nearly a sixth in t...Read More

Australia's Pilbara Minerals to ship first spodumene cargo to China in Aug

Apr. 19, 2018, 9:32 AM / Reuters

SHANGHAI, April 19 (Reuters) - Pilbara Minerals Ltd aims to ship the first cargo of spodumene concentrate from its Pilgangoora lithium-tantalum development in Australia to China in August, its managing director said on Thursday.Spodumene is a mineral mined as a source of lithium, a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries, for which China is the world's biggest market."We haven't made any prom...Read More

Ascot Resources to begin trading on OTCQX April 19

2018-04-19 09:28 / Mr. Derek White reports

Mr. Derek White reportsOTC MARKETS GROUP WELCOMES ASCOT RESOURCES LTD. TO OTCQX Ascot Resources Ltd. has qualified to trade on the OTCQX Best Market.Ascot upgraded to the OTCQX from the Pink Market (formerly ASOLF). Ascot begins trading on the OTCQX Best Market on April 19, 2018, under the symbol AOTVF.U.S. investors can find current financial disclosure and real-time Level 2 quotes for Ascot on...Read More

Strike halts gold output at two Randgold mines in Mali - union

Apr. 19, 2018, 7:45 AM / Reuters

A strike has halted gold production at two mines in Mali run by Randgold Resources since Wednesday, two senior union officials told Reuters on Thursday.The strike at the company's Loulo and Gounkoto mines was related to the payment of bonuses and would continue until the issue was resolved, said Mamadou N'Daou, the administrative secretary of the industry and mines union SECNAMI.Randgold, which ow...Read More

Great Bear increases Red Lake drilling to 10,000 m

2018-04-19 07:35 / Mr. Chris Taylor reports

Mr. Chris Taylor reportsGREAT BEAR EXPANDS RED LAKE DRILLING TO 10,000 METRES AND ANNOUNCES PRIVATE PLACEMENTGreat Bear Resources Ltd. has expanded its continuing 3,000-metre drill program in the Red Lake district, Ontario, to 10,000 metres.Great Bear's president and chief executive officer Chris Taylor said: "We have completed eight of 12 planned drill holes, and are expanding our current work pr...Read More

Osisko Mining drills 3.5 m of 41.2 g/t Au at Windfall

2018-04-19 07:06 / Mr. John Burzynski reports

Mr. John Burzynski reportsOSISKO INTERSECTS 41.2 G/T AU OVER 3.5 METRES AT WINDFALLOsisko Mining Inc. has provided new results from the continuing drill program at its 100-per-cent-owned Windfall Lake gold project located in the Abitibi greenstone belt, Urban township, Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Quebec. The 800,000-metre drill program combines definition, expansion and exploration drilling in and ar...Read More

De Beers launches Sierra Leone-based pilot to remove 'conflict diamonds' from the market

Apr. 19, 2018, 6:57 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

Anglo American's De Beers, the world's largest rough diamond producer by value, is stepping up efforts to remove so-called "conflict" precious stones from the market by launching a pilot program in Sierra Leone that will help trace the route gems dug up there by small miners.The trial, which aims at supplying retailers with "ethically-sourced" diamonds from artisanal miners based in the West Afr...Read More

De Beers launches Sierra Leone-based pilot to remove 'conflict diamonds' from the market

Apr. 19, 2018, 6:57 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

Anglo American's De Beers, the world's largest rough diamond producer by value, is stepping up efforts to remove so-called "conflict" precious stones from the market by launching a pilot program in Sierra Leone that will help trace the route gems dug up there by small miners.The trial, which aims at supplying retailers with "ethically-sourced" diamonds from artisanal miners based in the West Afr...Read More

Is Gold a Safe Investment?

Thu Apr 19 05:59:58 2018 / Staff reporter

The answer isn't as simple as you may think if you look at the big picture gold plays in the investing world.Read full newsRead More

Tanzania names chairman for new mining commission

Thu Apr 19 04:55:37 2018 / Staff reporter

Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Wednesday appointed a chairman and commissioners for the country's new mining commission, paving the way for the issuance of new mining licences.Read full newsRead More

Is Gold a Safe Investment?

Thu Apr 19 04:55:32 2018 / Staff reporter

The answer isn't as simple as you may think if you look at the big picture gold plays in the investing world.Read full newsRead More

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