U.S. markets gain during Aug. 4-8 trading week
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 957.58 points or 2.92%, to 33,761.05, and the S&P 500 climbed 134.96 points or 0.77% over the week to 4,280.15. The trading week’s top…
Copper
Turquoise Hill rejects Rio Tinto’s US$2.7B takeover offer
Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) has rejected majority shareholder Rio Tinto’s (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) bid to buy the 49% stake it doesn’t already own in…
Canadian miners in Mexico Snapshot: Eight companies to watch
With its mining friendly policies, highly prospective mineral belts, and well-developed infrastructure and regulatory regimes, Mexico is an attractive jurisdiction for mining companies of all sizes. Below are eight companies…
SolGold reshuffles C-suite as it ramps up Cascabel
Ecuador-focused miner SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG) has announced a round of management changes, with newly appointed chief financial officer Ayten Saridas stepping down after only six weeks in the job….
K92 reports 10.8M oz gold-equivalent resource for Blue Lake porphyry, near its Kainantu mine
K92 Mining (TSX: KNT) has released a first resource for its Blue Lake gold porphyry project, only 4 km southwest of its Kainantu mine in Papua New Guinea. Inferred resources total…
Foran Mining lines up $200M for McIlvenna Bay copper project
Foran Mining (TSX.V: FOM; OTCQX: FMCXF) has inked a preliminary deal for a $200-million investment by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, for the company’s McIlvenna Bay copper project in…
Lower grades at Gibraltar mine dent Taseko Mines results
Canada’s Taseko Mines (TSX: TKO; NYSE-AM: TGB; LSE: TKO) saw its finances shaken in the second quarter of the year due to lower mined grades at its 75%-owned Gibraltar open…
Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley restart faces budget shortfall; announces $45M financing
Imperial Metals (TSX: III) will secure additional funds for the restart of its Mount Polley mine by way of a convertible debenture financing totalling $45 million. The mine, which had…
Oz Minerals rebuffs US$5.8B takeover bid from BHP
Australian copper producer OZ Minerals (ASX: OZL) rejected on Monday an unsolicited A$8.4 billion (US$5.8 billion) takeover bid from the world’s largest miner BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX:BHP), stating…
Adventus finalizes US$55M Trafigura offtake for El Domo; looks to raise another US$40M in debt
Adventus Mining (TSXV: ADZN) has finalized a US$55-million offtake financing agreement with Trafigura for the construction of its 75%-owned El Domo-Curipamba copper-gold project in Ecuador. Of the total US$248-million estimated…
Turquoise Hill flags US$200M cost increase at Oyu Tolgoi
Canada’s Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) flagged after markets closed on Thursday a US$200-million cost increase for the ongoing expansion of the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in…
Anglo American to appeal El Soldado project rejection
Anglo American (LSE: AAL) is planning to appeal a Chilean environmental commission’s rejection of its $40-million operational continuity project for El Soldado copper mine, 125 km north of the capital…