Новости за 20.04.2022

Aim-listed gold exploration and development company Kefi Gold and Copper has announced an oversubscribed fundraising to raise gross cash proceeds of £8-million through a firm placing of 550-million new ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the capital of the company at a price of 0.8p per ordinary share to raise £4.4-million and a conditional placing of 450-million new ordinary shares at the placing price to raise £3.6-million. The firm and conditional placings were arranged by Tavira Securities.

Global silver demand is forecast to rise by 5% this year on the back of structural advancements in industrial fabrication, which is expected to achieve another record in 2022. The 2022 demand growth forecast comes on top of an impressive 19% gain in 2021, when total demand reached 1.05-billion ounces, the Silver Institute’s ‘World Silver Survey 2022’ states.

Four people died and more may be missing following an explosion at Pniowek mine in southern Poland operated by Europe’s largest coking coal producer JSW. As many as 42 miners were present in the section of the mine where the accident occurred at 12:15 a.m. local time, the company said on Wednesday. 21 are being treated in hospitals. The rescue operation has been halted until the area is secured to avoid another explosion.

LSE- and TSX-listed gold producer Centamin reported total capital expenditure (capex) for the first quarter ending March 31 of $71.4-million, reflecting an 89% increase year-on-year. In a quarterly report released on April 20, the company said significant investment had been made in key capital projects during the quarter, which included significant investment into a paste fill plant, a solar power plant, a tailings storage facility, two lift and pump upgrades, as well as underground equipment purchases... Читать дальше...

LSE-listed Petra Diamonds has reported a 33% year-on-year increase in revenue to $140.6-million for the quarter ended March 31 – the third quarter of its 2022 financial year. In an unaudited trading update released on April 20, Petra said the higher revenue was driven by strong prices achieved in the fourth tender in March, with like-for-like prices up 37.6% when compared with the third tender in December.

Diamond multinational De Beers Group has signed two mineral investment contracts (MICs) with the government of Angola for licence areas in north-eastern Angola. This follows the late 2021 announcement that De Beers had applied to explore in Angola following substantive reforms in the country’s diamond sector.

Dual-listed SolGold on Wednesday published a prefeasibility study (PFS) for its Cascabel project, in Ecuador, outlining plans for a multi-decade, low-cost copper producer that could help establish Ecuador as the next copper frontier. Cascabel would produce an average of 132 000 t/y of copper, 385 000 oz/y of gold and one-million ounces a year of silver, or 212 000 t/y of copper-equivalent, with peak copper output of 210 000 t/y.

The Western Australian government has appointed Indigenous professional services company Gee Gie to work on the first stage of a new project under the Abandoned Mines Programme. Gee Gie will work with the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety to identify, document and prioritise remediation work of abandoned mine features close to Cue, Marble Bar and Yalgoo.

Siemens Gamesa is discussing raising prices for its wind turbines by more than a high single-digit percentage in some cases as it grapples with stubbornly lofty raw materials prices, CE Jochen Eickholt said on Wednesday. "For specific materials … steel, copper, others, we continue to observe further non-decreasing prices so the price peak we kind of reached is kind of still in existence," Eickholt told analysts on a conference call after posting a quarterly loss. Read full story

A prefeasibility study (PFS) into a 10 000 t/y silicon/graphite alumina coating plant, in Germany, has proven positive for ASX-listed Altech Chemicals. The company on Wednesday told shareholders that the plant, which will be constructed by Altech Industries Germany (AIG), would produce high capacity silicon/graphite battery anode materials known as Silumina Anodes, under exclusive license from Altech.

Toronto-listed Global Atomic said on Tuesday that it had received a letter of interest from Export Development Canada (EDC), confirming its interest in working with the company to finance the Dasa uranium project, in Niger. EDC has indicated a potential participation, at typical bank rates, for a greenfield mining project of up to $75-million, to form the cornerstone of what is expected to be a syndicate of three banks.

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Brazilian miner Vale first-quarter iron-ore production fell 6.0% from the previous year, hit by heavy rainfall in January in Minas Gerais state which curbed its main production. The company's iron-ore output was 63.9-million tonnes in the period, down 22.5% from the final quarter of 2021.

ASX-listed Australian Pacific Coal is advancing the sale of its Dartbrook coal project, in New South Wales. The company in February this year received a binding offer from its major shareholder and creditor Trepang Services to purchase the Darbrook coal project through the acquisition of Australian Pacific Coal’s wholly owned subsidiaries.

ASX-listed Big River Gold has received a 36c a share cash takeover offer from TSX-listed mid-tier gold and copper producer Aura Minerals. The takeover offer represented a premium of 33.3% to Big River’s last closing price, and a 44% premium to the company’s 90-day volume weighted average share price, as well as a 42.3% premium to its 60-day volume weighted average share price.

Diversified major Rio Tinto has reported another quarter of falling iron-ore production and shipments. The miner on Wednesday reported that iron-ore shipments from the Pilbara operations had reached 71.5-million tonnes, down 8% on the previous corresponding period, and down 15% on the previous quarter.