Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich sold $551 million worth of shares in mining giant Norilsk Nickel on Tuesday during an accelerated bookbuilding deal (ABB), the deal's arranger VTB Capital said.The shares, accounting for a 1.7 percent stake in the world's largest palladium producer, were bought predominantly by British-based investors, with Russian investors also buying a third of the shares, D...Read More

Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX:NDM) has entered into a bought deal financing with Cantor Fitzgerald Canada to raise $10 million that will allow the miner to further advance its Pebble copper-gold-silver project in Alaska.The deal prices the company's shares at 64 Canadian cents, a 13.5% discount to the stock's price before the financing was announced.The Canadian miner has also granted the underwr...Read More

Greece's Public Power Corp (PPC) relaunched the sale of three coal-fired power plants on Friday with a March 15 deadline for expressions of interest, after a previous tender last month failed to attract any satisfactory bids.Former bidders, which include Mytilineos, GEK Terna, and Beijing Guohua Power Company, are entitled to express interest in addition to new ones, according to the tender docume...Read More

Toronto-based Wallbridge Mining Co. has intersected 2.55 g/t gold over 20.0 metres at its Beschefer property located 28 km from the company's Fenelon gold property. Results such as this have confirmed the continuity of the gold-bearing structure at the project.This is the company's first drill program at Beschefer, and all five holes cut significant gold mineralization in the B-14 shear zone. The...Read More

 A lack of exploration and discovery near Hemlo has created an opportunity for one Canadian company with a deep connection to the region to make the next discovery and the regional connection between two possible gold systems. by Nicholas LePanThe winters in Northern Ontario pause most exploration programs, however for one company, the deep chill provides an opportunity to follow up on an i...Read More

With silver now trading at US$15 an ounce, which is around where it was in late 2009, there are growing questions about the viability of the operations of many primary silver miners. This is because while silver remains stagnant, costs continue to rise, impacting the profitability of primary silver miners and the return on capital that they can generate.That has triggered significant speculation t...Read More

B.C.'s biggest mining mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in 2018 doubled in value to $9.5 billion compared with $4.6 billion in 2017, which was the second-lowest-valued year for M&As since 2013.Despite the impressive growth in 2018, the annual value of B.C.'s mining M&As still has a long way to go to reach the 2015 high of $10.4 billion. In recent years, the average mining M&A deal value has grown fa...Read More

Mar 14, 2019 Guest(s): Randy Smallwood Silver simply has better fundamentals than gold, but will take a while before prices catch up to its yellow metal counterpart, this according to Randy Smallwood, CEO of Wheaton Precious Metals. "I think there are better fundamentals behind silver than gold just because of the increase of industrial demand, the high efficiency electronics that we all demand...Read More

The federal government has announced plans to invest $72.3 million in clean technology for the Alberta oil and gas sector to address climate change and create jobs. Minister of Natural Resources Amarjeet Sohi made the announcement on March 14.The funds will go to oil sands producer Canadian Natural Resources and Titanium Corporation's Creating Value from Waste (CVW) technology.Canadian Natural wil...Read More

On March 14 the Mining Association of Canada released the latest edition of its annual Facts & Figures report that provides a comprehensive overview of the trends affecting Canada's mining sector. It contains the unwanted truth that this country's competitiveness continues to erode.Canada is losing its ability to seize new opportunities for growth and it is essential the federal and provincial gov...Read More

Toronto-based Metals Creek Resources is passing along the latest drill results from its Garrison gold project 35 km northwest of Kirkland Lake. The property has two distinct anomalies - the 1,000-metre long Southern anomaly that has historic drilling results and the 600-metre long Northern anomaly that has not been tested.Two holes last year targeted the Southern anomaly. The first hole had no sig...Read More

Haver & Boecker of St. Catharines, Ont., has appointed Jean-Francois Marchand as its sales representative for the province of Quebec. He has 20 years of sales experience including 10 years in heavy machinery.Michael McQuade is the new CEO of Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Before becoming an Algoma director, he had 35 years' experience at Stelco.Toronto's Bold Ventures is mourning the loss...Read More

 A lack of exploration and discovery near Hemlo has created an opportunity for one Canadian company with a deep connection to the region to make the next discovery and the regional connection between two possible gold systems. by Nicholas LePanThe winters in Northern Ontario pause most exploration programs, however for one company, the deep chill provides an opportunity to follow up on an i...Read More

Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended up slightly Thursday. Earlier in the session the blue-chip index had fallen on a report saying President Donald Trump was in no rush to complete a trade pact with China, but Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said discussions with China were progressing quickly. Social media company Snap Inc. (...Read More

The prices for nickel and copper were the poorest performers in trading on the London Metal Exchange on Thursday March 14, Fastmarkets has heard.Weaker data on China's industry drove the LME three-month nickel price down by 2.2% to $13,185 per tonne at the close of trading."The January-February combined data on Chinese industrial production, retail sales and fixed asset investment failed to provid...Read More

BCS Global Markets, one of Russia's largest securities brokers, believes that Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's newly-acquired shareholding in Russia's largest miner Nornickel may lose value.Abramovich's investment firm Crispian Investments acquired the 2.5% stake for $551 million on Wednesday March 13.But the oligarch's share may depreciate in value in line with expectations that nickel prices...Read More

Fastmarkets' alumina index fob Australia moved above $400 per tonne and to its highest since mid-December 2018 following increased buying demand in the market and continued tight supply. The daily fob Australia alumina index rose to $402.70 per tonne on Thursday March 14, up from $396.92 per tonne the previous day and 3.5% higher week on week. Key drivers  Renewed bullish sentiment in th...Read More

An elevated level of corporate debt, along with the high level of U.S. government debt, is likely to mean that the U.S. economy is much more interest rate sensitive than it has been historically. - Robert Kaplan, President of the Dallas FedFed officials always understate risks embedded in the system. Translated, the statement above implies the Fed is worried about the amount of debt accumulated in...Read More

Fastmarkets' alumina index fob Australia moved above $400 per tonne and to its highest since mid-December 2018 following increased buying demand in the market and continued tight supply. The daily fob Australia alumina index rose to $402.70 per tonne on Thursday March 14, up from $396.92 per tonne the previous day and 3.5% higher week on week. Key drivers  Renewed bullish sentiment in th...Read More

Backers of Freepoint Commodities have given the merchant trader approval to make further long-term investments in copper assets, the firm's commodities strategist, David Wilson, said at the International Copper conference in Amsterdam on Wednesday March 13. "Internally I can see that there is more appetite for us to invest in copper assets as well as trading. There's definitely a change in sentime...Read More