BMO launches coverage of Kazatomprom
BMO Capital Markets has initiated coverage of Kazakhstan-based uranium producer Kazatomprom (LON: KAP), with an outperform rating and a target price of $17 per share. The company recently listed about…
Russia and CIS
Chaarat to buy Kapan mine as part of ex-USSR consolidation strategy
Chaarat Gold Holdings (LON: CGH) struck a deal at the end of October to acquire the Kapan gold mine in Armenia from Polymetal International (LON: POLY) for US$55 million. The…
Malmyzh sale brings EMX Royalty US$65M windfall
Seven years ago, EMX Royalty (TSXV: EMX; NYSE-AM: EMX) identified privately held IG Copper and its Malmyzh copper-gold porphyry project in Russia as a strategic investment opportunity, and poured US$13…
Orsu finds silver at Sergeevskoe in Russia
Orsu Metals (TSXV: OSU; US-OTC: ORSUF) is drilling 12,500 metres at its 90% owned Sergeevskoe gold project, 40 km southwest of the town of Mogocha, Russia, on its way to…
Azarga releases PEA for Unkur project in Russia
Azarga Metals (TSXV: AZR; US-OTC: EUUNF) has tabled a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Unkur copper-silver project in eastern Russia. The company acquired 60% of the project in 2016 and…
Orsu Metals encounters gold in Siberia
Orsu Metals (TSXV: OSU) has identified a 200 metre-wide, steeply-dipping gold stockwork in the Klyuchi West zone at its Sergeevskoe gold project in Russia. Drill results from that zone are…
Minerals commentary: Replenishing the diamond pipeline is a daunting task for miners
Given that most of the highly economic diamond deposits in the world have already been put into production, diluted via expansion or depleted, going forward the economics of diamond mines…
Centerra rebuffs Chaarat’s $800M offer for Kumtor mine
Before Chaarat Gold (LON: CGH) launched an US$800-million, cash-and-share proposal to acquire Centerra Gold’s (TSX: CG) Kumtor mine in Kyrgyzstan, very few North Americans had even heard of the junior…
Editorial: Rusal sanctions sow market turmoil
The global aluminum markets have been in an uproar since April 6, when the U.S. government imposed tough sanctions on Russia’s oligarchs. Caught in the net are aluminum giant Rusal…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 99: Rusal sanctions sow chaos in aluminum markets
This episode is all about base metals, with the latest developments in iron ore, copper and zinc. But the biggest news of all is the imposition of sanctions by the…
Diamond market slows after strong recovery
A strong recovery followed an industry-wide diamond inventory buildup in 2014-2015 and another slide after India’s demonetization in late 2016. However, lately, the diamond industry’s momentum has begun to stall….
Black Iron restarts in Ukraine three years after Russian invasion
In the three years leading up to Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine in 2014, Black Iron (TSX: BKI) was making headway at its flagship Shymanivske iron ore project, 330 km…