November 21, 2019

Canadian railway strike snags steel, copper trade with US

CN Railway serves all nine smelters in Canada.

November 21, 2019

Kutcho Copper recovers 94.5% Cu, 89.3% Zn in met test

Earlier metallurgical tests done for the prefeasibility study recovered 84.7% of the copper and 75.7% of the zinc.

November 19, 2019

CN rail strike impacting Canadian mining operations

The impact is felt strongly by mining companies dependent on rail to either transport supplies in, or transport products and by-products from operations.

November 14, 2019

Vedanta beats all estimates on tax gain

Vedanta Ltd. reported a 61% jump in quarterly profit as a one-time tax benefit countered lower metal prices and slowing demand.

November 13, 2019

Pakistan gas giant plans zinc exports amid shift from fuel

The oil and gas explorer aims to boost revenue from its mining business to $100 million annually within three years.

November 13, 2019

Glencore to shut Canadian smelter by year-end, over 400 jobs lost

The facility was supposed to transition to a custom smelter after the mine closed in 2013.

November 12, 2019

Laurion finds fifth new discovery in CRK zone at Ishkoday

The best gold value was 7.15 g/t over 0.33 metre.

November 12, 2019

Hudbay Q3 results on track to meet 2019 guidance

Company wide Q3 copper production came in at 36,422 tonnes with an additional 28,639 tonnes of zinc as well as 41,500 oz. of gold equivalent ounces.

November 6, 2019

Trevali reports record quarterly zinc production

Trevali has confirmed that it is on track to meet or exceed its 2019 production guidance of 361 million to 401 million pounds of payable zinc.

November 6, 2019

Nyrstar board grilled on Trafigura ties in 10-hour marathon meeting

Nyrstar’s history of financial troubles dates back to around 2010, when management embarked on a debt-fueled run of mining acquisitions.