Mining Articles

Barrick could trade copper mines for gold ones to expand Tier 1 assets

Oct. 25, 2018, 8:55 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

Barrick Gold's (TSX, NYSE:ABX) executive chairman John Thornton said Thursday the company could sell its non-core assets, particularly copper ones, as a result of the merger with Randgold Resources (LON:RRS), a deal which is expected to happen in the first three months of 2019.Barrick and Randgold will focus on Tier 1 assets which produce 500,000 ounces of gold annually, have a mine life of more...Read More

RT @RonStoeferle: Gold: Geh??rt das Edelmetall jetzt ins Depot, Herr St??ferle?

Thu Oct 25 08:04:55 2018 / Ronnie Stoeferle

B?-RSE ONLINE: Der Goldpreis hat sich von seinem j? 1/4 ngsten Tief Mitte August wieder etwas erholt, hat seitdem rund f? 1/4 nf Prozent zugelegt. Am Dienstag ging es um rund ein Prozent nach oben, an den Aktienm??rkten st? 1/4 rzten die Kurse ab. Ist Gold wieder die Krisenw??hrung schlechthin? Ronald-Peter St??ferle: Das Gold macht seinem Ruf als Portfolio-Versicherung wieder alle Ehre. Das Edelm...Read More

RT @russian_market: CHINA HARD LANDING GERMANY HARD LANDING

Thu Oct 25 08:04:26 2018 / Russian Market

"German IFO Business Climate (Oct):102.8(est 103, prev 103.7) German IFO Current Assessment (Oct):105.9(est 106, prev R 106.6) German IFO Expectations (Oct): 99.8 (est 100.3, prev R 100.9)"Read full newsRead More

Western Uranium & Vanadium to re-open the Sunday Mine Complex

Oct. 25, 2018, 7:27 AM / MINING.com Staff

Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. (CSE: WUC) announced plans to re-open the Sunday Mine Complex, located in western San Miguel County, Colorado.The complex extends for 3,748 hectares and consists of five individual mines currently in temporary cessation. These are the Sunday mine, the Carnation mine, the Saint Jude mine, the West Sunday mine and the Topaz mine. Last time they were mined was between...Read More

Western Uranium & Vanadium to re-open the Sunday Mine Complex

Oct. 25, 2018, 7:27 AM / MINING.com Staff

Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. (CSE: WUC) announced plans to re-open the Sunday Mine Complex, located in western San Miguel County, Colorado.The complex extends for 3,748 hectares and consists of five individual mines currently in temporary cessation. These are the Sunday mine, the Carnation mine, the Saint Jude mine, the West Sunday mine and the Topaz mine. Last time they were mined was between...Read More

First Cobalt promotes its American 'blue gold'

Oct. 25, 2018, 7:05 AM / MINING.com Staff

A month after announcing it had acquired full ownership of its Idaho-based Iron Creek project and eliminated its royalty, Canada's First Cobalt (TSX-V: FCC) released a video today aimed at selling high the product of its flagship asset."As federal agencies seek ways to reduce U.S dependency on foreign sources of cobalt, projects such as Iron Creek in mining-friendly Idaho support a strategy to red...Read More

Lucapa secures $7m loan to boost Lesotho mine development

Oct. 25, 2018, 6:35 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

Australia's Lucapa Diamond (ASX:LOM) said Thursday it had received ZAR100 million (about $7 million) from South Africa's IDC - of the largest development financiers in southern Africa - to boost development at its 70%-owned Mothae mine in Lesotho.The company, which commissioned a 1.1 million tonne a year treatment plant at the mine, said the loan will considerably strengthen Mothae's cash posi...Read More

Amazon's mining treasure at stake as Bolsonaro leads Brazil vote

Oct. 25, 2018, 5:00 AM / Bloomberg News

On a flight to Brasilia last year, Jair Bolsonaro's carry-on bag contained little more than two small chunks of metal mined in Brazil: One was graphene, used in solar cells; the other niobium, which strengthens steel.At the time, he said he hoped to display them in a TV interview, evidence of the promise mining holds for Brazil's struggling economy. While some of the former Army captain's ideas ha...Read More

Quadron to Acquire Interest in Genetic Properties Inc.

October 25, 2018 01:05:35 / Staff reporter

Vancouver, BC - Quadron Cannatech Corporation (CSE:QCC) (the "Company" or "Quadron"), is pleased to announce that it has entered into a binding letter of intent dated October 24, 2018 with Genetic Properties Inc. ("GPI") and its shareholders, pursuant to which Quadron will acquire up to a one-third equity interest in GPI (the "LOI").GPI, a private company based in Toronto, Ontario, is applying...Read More

good natured (R) Packaging Selected by US-based Hydroponic Indoor Farmer, Your Local Greens

October 25, 2018 01:03:07 / Staff reporter

Vancouver, BC - good natured Products Inc. (TSX-V:GDNP) (the "Company" or "good naturedTM") is pleased to announce its latest commercial partnership with Indoor City Farm, Your Local Greens, Inc.Utilizing the latest LED grow light technology from Phillips Horticulture, Your Local Greens plans to become a key player in the post-organic Indoor City Farming space. With only 3% waste, 90% less water...Read More

Select Sands Sells 80,000 Tons of Frac and Industrial Sands in Q3 2018

October 25, 2018 01:01:39 / Staff reporter

Vancouver, BC - Select Sands Corp. (TSX-V:SNS | OTCQX: SLSDF) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company sold 80,000 tonse of frac and industrial sands during Q3 2018 which is within the Company's previous guidance (see press release dated September 4, 2018) of between 65,000 to 95,000 tons.Further to this sales update, the Company is providing the below highlights of its cur...Read More

The Perfect Storm: Gold Stocks Rally in Down Market — Could This Be the Next Big Trade?

October 25, 2018 / Karen Thomas, CFA

While investing in gold stocks has pretty much been a losing proposition in the last five years and more, things are changing.The market is clearly more skittish, with major market indexes seeing big selling pressure.As I know you are well aware of, on October 9, the S&P/TSX Composite began a sell-off that spooked investors, leaving us wondering if this is the sell-off we have been waiting fo...Read More

Sun Metals up 47% on Stardust drill results

October 25, 2018 / Resource World

#4 Zone Manto: flat-lying sulphide mantos in carbonates. Source: Sun Metals Corp.Sun Metals Corp. [SUNM-TSXV] shares rallied Thursday after the company released impressive drill results from its Stardust project in northcentral British Columbia.The company announced that drilling into a new extension of the Canyon Creek Skarn zone at the Stardust project has returned the thickest and richest miner...Read More

B2Gold ups resource estimate for West Africa mine

October 25, 2018 / Resource World

B2Gold's Fekola gold mine in Mali, West Africa. Source: B2Gold Corp.B2Gold Corp. [BTO-TSX, BTG-NYSE] on Thursday announced a better-than-expected resource estimate for its Fekola mine in Mali, West Africa. The Vancouver company also released positive results from a mill expansion study at the Fekola mine.The increased mineral resource and the positive results, to date, from the Fekola mill expan...Read More

Dam sale boosts Q3 profit for Teck Resources, but lower commodity prices sting

October 25, 2018 / CanadianInvestor

VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. reported a profit of $1.3 billion in its third quarter, boosted by the sale of the Waneta Dam.The miner says the profit amounted to $2.23 per share for the three months ended Sept. 30, compared with $584 million or $1.01 per share a year ago.Revenue totalled $3.2 billion, up from $3.1 billion.On an adjusted basis, Teck says it earned 81 cents per share for the quart...Read More

Barrick Gold in talks with partners in China and Saudi Arabia on copper assets

October 25, 2018 / CanadianInvestor

TORONTO - Barrick Gold Corp. says it's in talks with partners in China and Saudi Arabia on potential deals involving its copper assets as it looks ahead to its acquisition of Randgold Resources and an increased focus on African gold mines.Company chairman John Thornton said on a conference call that its copper assets are of high interest to the partners who may want to build serious copper compa...Read More

Even in Bear Markets, There's Always a Way to Make Money

October 25, 2018 / Jeff Siegel

The market crashed again yesterday.This time with the Dow shedding more than 600 points and the Nasdaq more than 300 points.Make no mistake, it was a bloodbath.But while most investors were running to sell in an effort to avoid even bigger losses, I sent out the following email to members of my Green Chip Stocks community:That's right.Yesterday afternoon, we sold half of our position in a small ph...Read More

Sowers discusses future lunar settlement with Nature

Oct 25 2018 / News room

George Sowers, professor of practice in the space resources program at Colorado School of Mines, was recently interviewed by Nature about what it would take to build a sustainable base on the Moon.From the article:Researchers relish the idea of a base for conducting experiments on the Moon and as a way to trial technologies for heading to Mars. Private firms, however, are increasingly tempted by t...Read More

Liberty Gold expands mineralized footprint at Goldstrike

October 25, 2018 / Posted Trish Saywell

Shallow infill and step-out drilling 250 metres south of the main deposit at Liberty Gold's (TSX: LGD) flagship Goldstrike project in Utah, suggests that oxide gold bearing feeder structures follow multiple orientations that cross-cut the main deposit trend, the company says.Exploration results from the Peg Leg area at the past-producing mine also indicate that the zone has starter pit potential g...Read More

Site visit: Nevada Copper rolling Pumpkin Hollow forward

October 25, 2018 / Frik Els

YERINGTON, NEVADA - For the townsfolk of Yerington, Nevada Copper's (TSX: NCU; US-OTC: NEVDF) plan to begin production next year at its Pumpkin Hollow copper mine has been 40 years in the making.The waste dumps left by Anaconda Mining Co. after it shut copper operations in 1978 still loom large over this town in Nevada's Mason Valley, not far from Lake Tahoe and the California state line.There hav...Read More

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