Новости за 10.12.2019

Global diversified miner Anglo American on Tuesday released its updated production guidance for the next three years, with diamonds and iron-ore revised lower. The company, through its diamond subsidiary De Beers, now expects to produce between 32-million and 34-million carats in the 2020 financial year, down from the prior target of between 33-million and 35-million carats.

The value of global metal and mining industry merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the third quarter reached nearly $7-billion, data analytics and consulting company GlobalData has found. This was a 48.2% increase compared with the second quarter but a 64.6% decrease compared with the last four-quarter average, which stood at $19.9-billion.

Canadian junior explorer Giyani Metals Corporation has selected Botswana-based minerals processing services company Lazenby Holdings to undertake the environmental cleanup work at its K.Hill and Otse manganese deposits. This is in accordance with the environmental management plans (EMPs) which were approved by Botswana's Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) in July this year.

Madagascar plans to increase its royalties on nickel and cobalt to 4% from 2% at present, a draft mining law said on Tuesday. The law, presented to reporters by Mines Minister Fidiniavo Ravokatra, showed that Madagascar also proposes to allow the government to take at least a 20% stake in any marketable mining production.

Canada-based gold miner Gran Colombia has set a new monthly production record of 21 835 oz of gold in November, keeping the company on track to finish the year in the upper-end of its guidance range. This brings the total for the first 11 months of 2019 to 217 600 oz, up 9% over the first 11 months of 2018. Gran Colombia’s trailing 12 months’ total gold production at the end of November 2019 increased to 236 608 oz, also up 9% over 2018’s yearly production of 218 001 oz.

Central banks are consuming a fifth of the global supply of gold, signaling a shift away from the dollar that’s bolstering the case for owning bullion, according to Goldman Sachs Group. “De-dollarization in central banks - demand from central banks for gold is biggest since the Nixon era, eating up 20% of global supply,” Jeff Currie, the head of global commodities research at Goldman, said in a Bloomberg Television interview Monday.

The Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has released new draft greenhouse gas emission guidelines. The new release followed the forced withdrawal of its original guidelines in March this year, which included rules that all new projects that emitted more than 100 000 t/y of carbon dioxide, should offset those emissions, after facing severe backlash from both the industry and the state government.

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has recommended the environmental approval of the Lake Disappointment potash project, in Western Australia, being developed by ASX-listed Reward Minerals. Lake Disappointment, located 320 km east of Newman, would produce 400 000 t/y of sulfate of potash (SOP) for domestic and international markets, over a 27-year mine life.

Gold’s impressive advance in 2019 – aided by trade war frictions, easier monetary policy across the world’s leading economies and sustained central-bank buying – may be set to spill into the new decade. As 2020 looms, BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager, remains constructive on bullion as a hedge, while Goldman Sachs Group and UBS Group see prices climbing to $1 600/oz – a level last seen in 2013.