Новости за 02.07.2019

Dual-listed Bluejay Mining has identified more than 20 large-scale drill-ready targets on licence holdings at its Disko-Nuussuaq magmatic massive sulphide (MMS) nickel/copper/platinum project in West Greenland. The licence holdings have recently expanded from 2 556 km2 to 2 776 km2 following further exploration.

TSX-listed Endeavour Mining anticipates to declare a maiden resource estimate at its Kari West deposit during the fourth quarter, while Kari Center discoveries are expected to be announced around the same time. The company has drilled more than 104 000 m over the Kari gold-in-soil anomaly since late 2018, totalling around 300 000 m of drilling since 2017.

Joburg Mayor Herman Mashaba on Tuesday said that the City has been forced to urgently close Iridium Street between Randfontein Road and Penny Road in Roodepoort from traffic for 12 months, due to illegal mining activities in the area. Mashaba said that illegal mining activities in the vicinity have contributed immensely to the deterioration of the road pavement structure.

Gold miner B2Gold Corporation will sell its Nicaraguan assets to Calibre Mining Corporation in exchange for a holding in Calibre. Calibre will acquire B2Gold’s producing El Limon and La Libertad gold mines, the Pavon gold project and additional mineral concessions held by B2Gold in Nicaragua, for $100-million in cash, common shares and a convertible debenture.

Illegal miners at a copper and cobalt mine run by Glencore in southeastern Congo defied a deadline on Tuesday to vacate the site, a union official said, raising fears of a potentially violent standoff. A landslide last Thursday at the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) concession, majority-owned by a subsidiary of Glencore, killed 43 people and led Democratic Republic of Congo's government to promise to remove the miners.

Junior Hot Chili will raise A$5-million through a private placement to sophisticated and professional investors to fund general working capital requirements and to satisfy a $2-million part-payment for its Carola option agreement. The share placement will be undertaken in two tranches, with the first 150-million shares, at a price of 3c each, to be placed under the company’s existing capacity.

Embattled copper miner CuDeco has gone into receivership after failing to find funding solutions. CuDeco ceased share trading in March 2018, and suspended operations at its flagship Rocklands copper project, in Queensland, in August 2018. While the suspension at the time had been classified as temporary to allow for critical maintenance work, the suspension remained indefinitely as CuDeco attempted to complete a financing restructure.

Three miners died after a tremor on Monday at a Polish coal mine owned by mining group PGG, the company said, in the deadliest incident in the country's mining industry this year. The quake with a magnitude of 2.66 was felt on Monday afternoon in the Staszic coal mine in the town of Katowice, the heart of Poland's coal region.

Freeport-McMoRan said on Monday it expects to report a loss in the second quarter, hit by lower gold production, weaker copper prices and higher costs, sending the US miner's shares down nearly 6%. The shares were further pressurized as gold prices fell following signs of easing trade tensions between the United States and China that reduced the attraction of safe-haven assets.