TSX Venture Exchange climbs, Oct. 25-29
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index rose 1.59 points or 0.17% to finish the October 25-29 trading week at 950.43. Spot gold climbed US$8.50 per oz. or 0.47% to US$1,784.30 per…
Copper
Protests force Peru’s largest copper mine to halt operations
Operations at Peru’s Antamina copper and zinc mine, jointly owned by Glencore (LSE: GLEN), BHP (NYSE: BHP; LES: BHP; ASX: BHP), Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A/TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) and Mitsubishi, were…
Chile copper output sinks to seven-month low
Copper production in Chile, the world’s top copper producer, registered in September its worst month for copper since February on the back of labour disruptions and falling ore grades at the…
Quebec Snapshot: Eight explorers looking for gold and green opportunities
The hunt for gold has truly heated up in La Belle Province, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t excellent opportunities for copper, too. AMEX EXPLORATION Amex Exploration (TSXV: AMX; US-OTC:…
Anglo American to halve indirect emissions by 2040
Anglo American (LSE: AAL) aims to halve its indirect greenhouse gases, known as Scope 3 emissions, by 2040 while it continues to boost the use of renewable energy across its…
Sibanye-Stillwater CEO outlines strategy on green energy metals
This week Sibanye-Stillwater (NYSE: SBSW; JSE: SSW) announced the US$1 billion acquisition of the Santa Rita nickel mine and the Serrote copper mine in Brazil from London-based Appian Capital. In…
Teck flags costs surge at Chile Quebrada Blanca expansion
Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A/TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) Canada’s largest diversified miner, said this week that while construction of its massive Quebrada Blanca Phase 2 (QB2) expansion project in Chile is two-thirds…
Adventus and Salazar release feasibility study for the Curipamba copper-gold project in Ecuador
Adventus Mining (TSXV: ADZN; US-OTC: ADVZF) and its partner Salazar Resources (TSX: SRL; US-OTC: SRLZF) have released a feasibility study with updated mineral resources and a first estimate of mineral…
NorthWest Copper reports ‘game-changing’ drill result from Kwanika deposit
NorthWest Copper (TSXV: NWST) has hit the highest-grade copper-gold interval ever intersected at Kwanika, one of the two deposits at the company’s advanced-stage copper-gold exploration project in British Columbia. The…
Sibanye-Stillwater buys nickel-copper mines in Brazil for US$1 billion
South Africa’s Sibanye-Stillwater (NYSE: SBSW; JSE: SSW) is buying two nickel and copper miners in Brazil from private equity firm Appian Capital in a US$1 billion deal that boosts the company’s growing battery materials…
Colombian regulator shelves AngloGold’s permit request for Quebradona
AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU; ASX: AGG; JSE: ANG) said today that Colombia’s environmental regulator or ANLA, its initials in Spanish, had shelved the permit application for its Quebradona copper-gold project. …
Lawmakers file impeachment proceedings against Chilean president
Earlier this month, lawmakers in Chile filed impeachment proceedings against President Sebastián Piñera after allegations surfaced in the Pandora Papers about a deal involving the Dominga iron ore project. The…