Lucapa digs up another large diamond, this time in Lesotho
Australia’s Lucapa Diamond (ASX:LOM) has found an 89-carat yellow diamond at its 70%-owned Mothae mine in Lesotho during the current bulk sampling ...
Month: June 2018
Chile injects $1bn into state-owned copper giant Codelco
Chile’s government is giving state-owned Codelco $1 billion in "extraordinary" capitalization to help it fund an ambitious plan aimed at upgrading its aging ...
Sibanye, Regulus join efforts to develop Argentina’s Altar project
South Africa’s Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL), the precious metal miner target of several lawsuits over mounting deaths at its operations, said ...
Centerra mine’s future up in the air as Kyrgyzstan to review deal
Fresh doubt has been cast over a deal reached last year between Centerra Gold (TSX:CG) (OTCMKTS: CAGDF) and the Kyrgyz ...
China’s No.1 maker of battery cells for EVs to build plant in Germany
China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) is said to be ready to start building a battery factory in Germany, planting a ...
Copper price drops to 9-month low, but what about strikes?
The price of copper succumbed to renewed weakness on Thursday crashing through the $3.00 a pound level in New York ...
Mars dust storm may lead to new weather discoveries
Mars is experiencing an estimated 15.8-million-square-mile dust storm, roughly the size of North and South America. This storm may not ...
US junior secures $1M for superalloy project in southeast Nebraska
US miner NioCorp Developments (OTCMKTS:NIOBF)(TSX:NB) revealed Thursday is about to receive a $1 million-shot in the arm from an entity ...
Meteorite 'Black Beauty' expands window for when life might have existed on Mars
New evidence for a rapid crystallization and crust formation on Mars has just been published. The study, based on the ...
Lumina Gold soars on positive economic assessment for Ecuador project
Shares in Canadian gold junior Lumina Gold (TSX-V:LUM) (OTC:LUMAF) jumped Thursday after the company announced it had received positive results of ...