Новости за 19.01.2022

Bullion major Barrick Gold has met its yearly guidance targets for the third consecutive year, producing 4.44-million ounces of gold and 415-million pounds of copper. The group’s guidance for the year was to produce 4.4-million to 4.7-million ounces of gold. The Africa and Middle East, as well as the Latin America and Asia Pacific regions finished the year at the higher end of their regional guidance range, Barrick reported on Wednesday.

If the Czech government agrees to terms for resolving a dispute over the Turow lignite mine, it will withdraw its complaint to the European Union's top court, a Polish Minister said on Wednesday, striking an upbeat note about the latest round of talks. The two European Union neighbours have been locked in a dispute over Poland's extension of mining at Turow, which feeds an adjacent power plant important to Polish energy supply.

Chilean miner Antofagasta on Wednesday forecast annual copper production below 2021 levels, as operations continue to be impacted by Chile's driest weather in years. The London-listed miner, majority owned by Chile's Luksic family, said 2021 copper production fell 1.7% to 721 500 t, which was within the range of the company's outlook. For 2022 it forecast 660 000 t to 690 000 t, because of lower grades at some operations and an expected shortage of water.

Dubai-headquartered copper and cobalt miner Shalina Resources and its subsidiary Chemaf have signed a financing and marketing agreement with commodity trader Trafigura. The deal will facilitate new supply of high-grade cobalt hydroxide and copper cathode at a time of growing global demand.

Americas-focused explorer Solaris Resources on Tuesday announced a significant new discovery in maiden drilling of the Warintza South target at its Warintza project, in Ecuador.

Aim-listed Red Rock Resources’ VUP project joint venture (JV) partner, VUP SA, was on January 14 issued an executory judgment from the Commercial Court of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ordering it to pay $2-million as damages, with costs. This follows an earlier judgment for payment of a principal amount of $2.5-million, representing 50.1% of the payment already made by a third party to VUP SA.

A definitive feasibility study (DFS) into the Kachi lithium project, in Argentina, would consider a 50 000 t/y base-case production scenario, ASX-listed Lake Resources said on Wednesday. The DFS will be expanded from 25 500 t/y to 50 000 t/y, underpinned by an anticipated increased resource estimate from drilling results, Lake said, noting that a formal decision to increase the size of the project was driven by the increasing demand by prospective offtake partners for a secure supply chain of environmentally... Читать дальше...

TSX-V-listed juniors Adventus Mining and Salazar Resources have secured $235.5-million to advance, and following a construction decision, build the Curipamba project, in Ecuador. The copper project will require a capital investment of $248-million, according to the feasibility study.

Coal miner Stanmore Coal has awarded a A$564-million mining contract at its Isaac Downs mine, in Queensland. The five-year opencut mining services contract was awarded to EPSA Pacific, marking a major milestone in moving the mine to full production, following the e completion of all regulatory approvals in the third quarter of last year.

The Australian government has finalised new methods under the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) that would make it easier for industry and farmers to take part in developing high-integrity carbon offset and take part in the ERF. Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor said the new methods would give farmers, businesses and industries the ability to earn revenue through projects which will help Australia achieve its emissions reduction targets.

Diversified major BHP has adjusted its full year outlook for metallurgical coal and copper productions as tough conditions continued. The miner on Wednesday reported that full year copper production was trending towards the low end of the guidance range of between 1.59-million and 1.76-million tonnes, while the metallurgical coal guidance has been reduced as a result of significant wet weather impacts and Covid-19 related labour constraints.