The price of copper surged on Tuesday after a strike at one of the largest copper mines in the world and optimism about a ceasefire in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies. In afternoon trading in New York, copper for delivery...
Read moreCordoba Minerals (TSXV: CDB) announced that it has restarted work on the Preliminary Economic Assessment for the Alacrán deposit, located within its 100%-owned San Matías copper-gold project in Colombia. In a press release, the Vancouver-based...
Read moreAbout 3,200 unionized workers at Codelco’s Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile downed tools on Friday after failing to reach a deal with the company, the world’s largest copper producer. The state-owned miner’s final offer, put forward on...
Read moreALX Uranium (TSXV: AL) announced that it acquired claims prospective for nickel, copper and cobalt mineralization totaling approximately 7,169 hectares at its Falcon nickel project located in the northern Athabasca region of Saskatchewan. In a...
Read moreAustralia’s SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) announced Thursday it had made a new key discovery in the northern part of Ecuador’s Andean copper belt Ecuador, this time on its Sharug project, one of the company’s 12 priority prospects. The miner, which...
Read moreCanada’s New Energy Metals (TSXV: ENRG) announced that it entered into a letter of intent with certain arm’s length vendors to be granted the exclusive right and option to acquire an initial 70% royalty-free interest in and to certain exploration...
Read moreCanada’s DeepGreen Metals, a start-up planning to extract cobalt and other battery metals from small rocks covering the seafloor, has secured the bulk of the $150 million it needs to carry out its first feasibility studies. The financing...
Read moreCopper’s price slide due to the escalating U.S.-China trade dispute suggests a deteriorating fundamental picture, but bubbling away in the background are supply side problems that are likely to lead to a tighter market. Copper is used in...
Read moreShares of Eldorado Gold rose as much as 14.6% on Monday on optimism that a snap poll called by Greece could result in the election of a new business-friendly party and help resolve permitting problems the miner has faced for years. Greek Prime...
Read moreRoyal Road Minerals’ (TSX-V: RYR) shares jumped over 8% by mid-day Friday, following the announcement of a C$5million ($3.7m) private placement from Agnico Eagle Mines. Agnico Eagle now owns 42,512,708 ordinary shares of Royal Road, representing...
Read moreThe world’s largest miner, BHP (ASX, NYSE: BHP), has lifted its forecasts for the global adoption and sales of electric vehicles (EVs), but warns the electrification of the transport sector will proceed only as fast as the development of charging...
Read moreBritish Columbia’s mining sector posted positive results for the second straight year in 2018 coming off a period of lower commodity prices and reduced activity, according to PwC Canada’s latest BC Mine report. In total, BC miners...
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