Новости за 27.07.2020

State-owned fund manager, the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) has increased its shareholding in NYSE- and JSE-listed precious metals miner Sibanye-Stillwater from 10.0031% to 15.024%. The PIC had in October last year increased its stake in the mining company from 9.3%.

Thankfully the RB1 physical discount has narrowed, with some supply demand balance returning to physical markets. This helped FOB RBCT to push back above the $50 mark, although RB3 and lower grades remain more heavily discounted. European power, natural gas and crude prices also enjoyed some strength on the week, with carbon prices moderating from their recent highs. Chinese power demand is weaker, depressing domestic coal prices, although severe flooding on the Yangtze river also means that ...

London-listed Sylvania has successfully ramped up to full capacity at its Sylvania Dump Operations (SDO), following a hard lockdown and subsequent ramping up process in South Africa, in the quarter ended June 30. The company only produced 9 055 oz of platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold (4E) platinum group metals (PGMs), compared with the nearly 20 000 oz of 4E produced in the quarter ended March 31.

Aim-listed mineral exploration and development company Tertiary Minerals reports that preliminary rock samples taken at its Mt Tobin silver prospect, in Nevada, in the US, have returned values of up to 101 g/t silver. Several other samples, taken from the prospectors hand dug pits, have returned silver grades of between 15 g/t and 91 g/t silver.

Cyprus-based copper and gold exploration and development company Chesterfield Resources has raised £630 000 by way of a conditional placing and subscription of 12-million new ordinary shares. The shares are at a par value of 0.1p in the capital of the company, with new and existing shareholders at a price of 5.25p per placing share, a 23% discount to the five-day volume weighted average share price of 6.85p.

A top environmental judge in Chile renewed a call for a government-vetted water study to help stamp out lingering questions about sustainability that have cast a pall over Chile's lithium-rich Salar de Atacama. Water - both fresh and saline, where the lithium lies - has long been a sticking point for miners at Atacama, one of the world's richest reserves of the ultralight battery metal. The flat sits amid the world's driest desert.

For the Krenak indigenous people who live along the Rio Doce in southeastern Brazil, the waterway was their community's lifeblood, a source of food and spiritual presence, where children were baptized and learned to swim. But in 2015, a dam co-owned by BHP Group and Vale SA collapsed, unleashing 44-million cubic meters of mining waste into the river and Atlantic Ocean, 650 km away, in what became Brazil's worst environmental disaster.

The share price of ASX-listed Karoon Energy increased by more than 11% on Monday as the company announced plans to continue its investment in Brazil, and to amend the sale and purchase agreement (SPA) of the Bauna field, in the Santos basin. Karoon told shareholders that a wide-ranging strategic review of the options available in the current global market environment had confirmed that the company should pursue its Southern Santos basin strategy in Brazil.

Russian aluminium producer Rusal on Monday reported a 10% fall in its second quarter aluminium sales compared with a year ago as the new coronavirus outbreak hit demand for its metal. Hong-Kong listed Rusal, the world's largest aluminium producer outside China, managed to boost sales to China and is relatively optimistic about its prospects for July-December if coronavirus infects do not spike.

TSX-V-listed gold and silver exploration company StrikePoint Gold Incorporated has completed a nonbrokered private placement financing to a single subscriber, Eric Sprott, raising gross proceeds of $1.95-million through the issuance of up to 23-million units at a price of $0.085 apiece. Each unit comprises one common share of the company and one-half share purchase warrant with each whole warrant, entitling the holder to acquire an additional common share of the company at a price of $0.12 apiece... Читать дальше...

TSX-listed Canadian exploration and development company Discovery Metals Corporation has arranged a nonbrokered institutional private placement to raise C$35-million through the issuance of 25.93-million units, at a price of C$1.35 apiece. Each unit comprises one common share of Discovery and one half of one common share purchase warrant, with each full warrant exercisable at C$1.75 for a period of two years after the date of issuance.

Gold futures traded at a record as the dollar plunged and concerns about the global economy boosted demand for havens, while the most-active contract rolled to a month that had already topped the all-time high. Bullion’s move came as a gauge of the dollar fell to the lowest in more than six months amid negative real rates in the US and bets the Federal Reserve will keep policy accommodative when it meets this week. Inflows into gold-backed exchange traded funds this year have surpassed a record set in 2009... Читать дальше...

Junior Peel Mining on Monday announced that it would raise A$17.1-million in order to gain full ownership of the Mallee Bull base metals project, in New South Wales. Peel told shareholders that it would acquire joint venture (JV) partner CBH Resources’ 50% stake in the project by exercising its pre-emptive right and matching a third party’s unconditional cash offer of A$17-million.

ASX-listed Centaurus Metals will raise A$25.5-million in an institutional share placement to fund growth and development at the Jaguar nickel project, in Brazil. More than 60.7-million shares will be issued, at a price of 42c each, representing a 10.6% discount to the company’s last closing price, and an 11% discount to its five day volume weighted average share price.