by Gordon Barratt | Jun 11, 2020 | News
Source: Nick Zavilinskyi Mining magnate Ron Manners has been appointed as an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia for his achievements in the mining industry and philanthropy. The Officer of the Order of Australia is given to individuals who have...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 11, 2020 | News
Canadian precious metals miner Silvercorp has elected not to exercise its right to match an offer for gold miner Guyana Goldfields. Guyana Goldfields, which owns the soon-to-be-idled Aurora underground gold project, in Guyana, has received quite a bid of interest from...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 11, 2020 | News
Lithium developer Piedmont Lithium will raise A$29-million to continue the development of its namesake lithium project, in North Carolina. The company said that it had received commitments for a US public offering of 1.8-million of its American Depositary Shares...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 11, 2020 | News
A few nights ago Britain passed a milestone: it was two months since a coal plant anywhere in the country fed any electricity into the national grid. You have to go back to the 1880s for the last time this occurred – to 1882, to be precise, when a single coal-fired...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 10, 2020 | News
BHP’s Olympic Dam mine. Source: BHP Copper has risen to a three-month high of $US5700 ($8193) per tonne this week in a sign the base metal is bouncing back from its COVID-19 slump. The outright price of the commodity on the London Metal Exchange closed at $5774...
by Gordon Barratt | Jun 10, 2020 | News
The shareholders of gold miners Alacer Gold and SSR Mining will meet on Thursday to vote on a C$2.4-billion merger. Under the transaction, Alacer shareholders would receive 0.3246 SSR Mining shares for each Alacer share held, implying a consideration of C$8.19 a...
