US markets down, March 18-22: Vale, Wheaton Precious Metals and Franco-Nevada
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.34% to finish the trading week at 25,502.32, and the S&P 500 Index lost 0.77% to end the week at 2,800.71. Spot gold rose…
Iron Ore
TSX Venture rises, March 18-22: Macarthur, Luminex and Mirasol
Shares of Macarthur Minerals rose 100% to 10¢. The company signed a life-of-mine offtake agreement to sell Glencore International iron ore that could be produced from Macarthur’s Lake Giles iron…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 134: Iron ore markets post-Vale disaster, Ukraine update ft Black Iron’s Matt Simpson
Global iron ore markets are under great stress in the wake of Vale’s horrific tailings-dam disaster near Brumadinho in Brazil, which has resulted in 10% of the world’s iron ore…
BMO cuts Vale production estimates after additional mine closure
BMO Capital Markets has cut Vale’s (NYSE: VALE) iron ore production estimate this year by a further 30 million tonnes due to the continued suspension of the miner’s Brucutu mine,…
US markets post slight gain, Feb. 18-22: Newmont, Rio Tinto
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.57% to 26,031.81, while the S&P 500 Index increased 0.62% to 2,792.67. Spot gold finished the week at US$1,337.80 per oz., up US$16.40 per…
Black Iron, Glencore discuss offtake for Shymanivske in Ukraine
Black Iron (TSX: BKI; US-OTC: BKIRF) and Glencore (LON: GLEN) are in talks to finance construction of the junior’s Shymanivske iron ore project in Ukraine, and have signed a non-binding…
Editorial: Iron ore prices surge higher on Vale disaster
All of those supply and demand, and price forecasts carefully assembled in late 2018 for iron ore have become obsolete in the wake of Vale’s devastating Corrego do Feijao tailings…
US markets post slight gains: Vale, Cleveland Cliffs, Buenaventura, Franco-Nevada, Peabody Energy
The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a marginal 0.17% gain to 25,106.33, while the S&P 500 Index ended 0.05% higher at 2,707.88. Despite a rising dollar, spot gold held above…
Vale evacuates 500 people near Sul Superior tailings dam as ‘safety measure’
Vale (NYSE: VALE) is evacuating 500 people from an area below the Sul Superior dam, an upstream tailings dam that used to support production from the company’s Gongo Soco mine,…
Vale declares force majeure
Vale (NYSE: VALE) has declared force majeure on a series of iron ore and pellets sales contracts after a Brazilian state court ordered it to suspend production from its Brucutu…
Vale faces ‘serious reputational risk’ following dam disaster: Moody’s
Potential liabilities from the collapse of a tailings dam at Vale’s Feijao iron ore mine in Brazil that has left at least 99 people dead and another 250 people missing…
Editorial: Tailings spill at Feijao is Vale’s worst yet, with 84 dead, 276 missing
Here we go again. With memories still fresh of Vale and BHP’s deadly Samarco iron ore tailings disaster in Mariana, Brazil in November 2015 — which killed 19 people —…