Новости за 12.03.2019

A strike at Canadian Goldcorp's Cerro Negro mine in Argentina has forced a halt to operations, the company said on Tuesday, calling the union's action at its biggest mine illegal. Mining activities stopped when the strike by the Asociacion Obrera Minera Argentina (AOMA) union began on March 8, and processing is also now halted as surface stockpiles have run out, Vancouver-headquartered Goldcorp said in a statement.

One dollar. That’s how much an aging New Mexico coal plant is worth. And by some estimates, even that may be too much. Acme Equities, a New York-based holding company, is in talks to buy the 847-MW San Juan Generating Station for $1, after four of its five owners decided to shut it down. The fifth owner, the nearby city of Farmington, says it’s pursuing the bargain-basement deal with Acme to avoid losing about 1 600 direct and indirect jobs in the area.

London-based Bacanora Lithium’s share price rose sharply on Tuesday, but the company said that it was not aware of a reason for the price movement. Bacanora, which is developing the Sonora lithium project, in Mexico, said in a statement that there was no unpublished price sensitive information and that unsubstantiated social media speculation should be treated as such.

The initial economics of Toral lead/zinc project, in north-west Spain, are robust, with a scoping study calculating a $110-million net present value, at an 8% discount rate, and an internal rate of return of 24.4%, dual-listed Europa Metals announced this week. The scoping study estimated $33-million in capital expenditure (capex) for a proposed 450 000 t/y design capacity plant and a total capex of $110-million.

The town of Mangaratiba, in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, fined miner Vale and closed its iron ore port terminal on Monday, citing pollution problems and the alleged lack of an operating license. The city's environment department fined Vale for 30-million reais and closed the Ilha da Guaiba terminal for the second time this year.

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MT DEQ) has released the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) outlining the final permitting steps for the underground Black Butte copper project that TSX-V-listed Sandfire Resources America is developing. The draft EIS will be open for public comment for a 60-day period until May 10, and Sandfire said on Tuesday that a could have a record of decision (ROD) and mine operating permit for Black Butte as early as the third quarter of this year.

Canada is announcing funding for the country’s smaller steel and aluminum producers as a tariff fight with the US drags on. Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said Monday Canada will make available C$100-million in “non-repayable contributions” to small- and medium-sized steel and aluminum manufacturers, or clients of those firms.

Production at Chinese miner MMG Ltd's Las Bambas copper deposit in Peru could fall "in the near term" due to a month-long road blockade by a community that was relocated to build the mine, the company said on Monday. MMG, controlled by state-owned China Minmetals Corp Ltd , said it had run out of stock at the Peruvian port of Matarani and had warned customers of delays to shipments.

ASX-listed Heron Resources has warned of delays for first production at its Woodlawn base metals project, in New South Wales. The company said on Tuesday that at the start of March, it was advised by contractor Sedgman of a delay for the first ore feed into the processing plant, with ore processing now expected to start early in the second quarter of 2019, with first concentrate ready for shipment in May.

ASX-listed Metals X has warned of production impacts at its Nifty copper operation, in Western Australia, following a temporary loss of power at its underground mine. The power outage was caused by a short circuit of the underground power cables leading from the gas turbine to the underground workings.