Advised this gold production and exploration company on its AIM IPO and subsequent secondary fundraisings and on its acquisition
of mining assets in Argentina and associated royalty exchange.
Local IT company Synergy Equities Group has reached a settlement to dispose of the last
of its mining assets in a deal it says will allow for a greater focus on its core technology business.
Not exact matches
As a potential source
of spectrum,
mining the available
assets, the value is something else.
If Rio Tinto decides to opt out
of diamond
mining, it may choose to sell all
of its
assets together, but it's possible that the Diavik stake could be sold separately, with Dominion considered a likely bidder.
The scion
of the famed Lundin Group, which controls almost $ 12 billion in
mining company
assets, placed Lamb in charge
of Lucara, a non-producing shell company.
Rio Tinto is reportedly reassessing its
mining activities (in addition to its Diavik stake, its diamond
assets include Australia's Argyle
mine, the Murowa
mine in Zimbabwe, and Bunder, an advanced project in India) and is expected to make a decision on them by the end
of the year.
Their proclamations substantially risk devaluating a major
asset of mine.
Chris Beer, vice-president and senior portfolio manager
of global equities for RBC Global
Asset Management, points to Kinross's $ 7 - billion purchase
of Red Back
Mining in 2010.
Perth - based Altona
Mining has agreed to sell all
of its Finnish operations and most
of its exploration
assets to Swedish miner Boliden Mineral AB for about $ US95 million.
Perth - based Altona
Mining announced the completion
of its $ US95 million Finnish
assets sale to Swedish miner Boliden Mineral AB and has received $ US89.2 million in cash as the first tranche
of payment.
Gold company Evolution
Mining has finalised its purchase
of La Mancha Resources» Australian
assets and secured $ 100 million in financial firepower to continue its growth opportunities.
Macmahon Holdings has reported a net loss
of $ 217.9 million for the financial year, on the back
of impairments to its
assets during what has been a tough time for contractors and
mining services firms.
Copper producer Aditya Birla Minerals has flagged impairment charges in the range
of $ 175 million to $ 225 million in its upcoming half - year financial report, resulting from
mining set - backs, potential
asset divestments, and devaluation
of its heap leach inventory.
It is hard to find a winner in the coal -
mining industry these days but some investors were quick to spot a Perth - based winner yesterday in the form
of Wesfarmers, which saw the value
of its coal
assets boosted by a deal in the Hunter Valley
of NSW.
The Chinese have been active recently in both the
mining and the broader Canadian resource sector, and they will continue to be, trying to cycle their vast sums
of capital into hard
assets as fast as they can.
In particular, this report happened to delve into trends in
asset tracking, which doesn't sound sexy but is actually a major factor in the evolution
of industries as diverse as tourism,
mining, and healthcare.
Franco - Nevada Corp. (FNV: $ 44.16) A royalty company that buys interests in a diversified range
of gold
mines as well as interests in oil and gas and other
assets.
The loss was largely due to a $ 916 million impairment charge on its long - lived
assets, stemming both from a major tax and export dispute between its 64 - per - cent owned Acacia
Mining and the Tanzanian government, and the partial writedown
of its Pascua Lama project after the Chilean government ordered it to close all surface facilities.
Brazilian miner Vale S.A. already produces cobalt in Canada as part
of a nickel concentrate from its Voisey's Bay
mine in Labrador, while Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. owns dormant cobalt - related
assets in northern Ontario.
Cameo continues to expand its project portfolio with undervalued battery metal
assets with recent acquisitions such as the Staghorn Cobalt claims located north
of the famed Voisey's Bay
mine in Labrador.
Executives who made that blunder
of an acquisition are gone, and current CEO Laurenco Goncalves has sold off those
assets, focused operations around its iron ore
mines in the U.S. and Australia, and trimmed Cliffs net debt load to a manageable $ 1.35 billion.
The company wants to secure producing
assets abroad as it juggles depleting
mines and heightened environmental scrutiny at home with growing demand in the world's biggest buyer
of the metal.
Sources out
of Russia have related that the Finance Ministry proposed adding a ban on the
mining of cryptocurrency to forthcoming legislation that would regulate digital
assets and other features
of the blockchain space.
Highly geared and ASX - listed Yancoal paid $ US2.69 billion ($ 3.6 billion) for the
assets last year, but swiftly struck a deal to on - sell 49 per cent
of the HVO
mine to Glencore, which had long carried a torch for the Rio Tinto
assets.
Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev told reporters that, «We categorize
mining as a business activity» and went on to explain that because the proposed law contains no specific guidance on
mining taxation, conventional tax laws will apply to the proceeds
of digital
asset mining operations.
Crypto Stake Coin or CSC is a fully managed
asset that is backed by a basket
of POS coins, we are also hedged with a small amount
of POW
mining.
Mining stocks are an extremely volatile
asset class where the odds
of any investor getting into a story, experiencing impressive gains, only to then take a round trip back to break - even... and finally into NEGATIVE territory are actually quite high (sadly)... In fact, that dreaded rollercoaster ride where you see all your once «hefty» profits in any single position later eviscerated into NOTHING is something that I've experienced more often than I'd like to admit...
Under normal market conditions, the Gold and Precious Metals Fund will invest at least 80 percent
of its net
assets in equity securities
of companies predominately involved in the
mining, fabrication, processing, marketing, or distribution
of metals including gold, silver, platinum group, palladium and diamonds.
One
of the main problems, says the head
of Chile's
Mining Society, Diego Hernández, is miners have no incentives to do anything with the
assets they already own and is very cheap to keep them.
They also hold highly diversified portfolios
of mines and other
assets, which helps mitigate concentration risk in the event that one
of the properties stops producing.
It has even recovered the value
of a $ 2 billion preferred equity investment into the holding company
of bankrupt Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista by claiming
assets including a Colombian gold
mine and a key port.
While the traditional cloud
mining business model seems to be broken by the need for trust or third - party services, GetHashing introduces a whole new model
of crowd cloud
mining entirely built around the blockchain technology and the Open
Assets Protocol.
When market conditions favor wider diversification in the view
of Hussman Strategic Advisors, Inc., the Fund's investment manager, the Fund may invest up to 30 %
of its net
assets in securities outside
of the U.S. fixed - income market, such as utility and other energy - related stocks, precious metals and
mining stocks, shares
of real estate investment trusts («REITs»), shares
of exchange - traded funds («ETFs») and other similar instruments, and foreign government debt securities, including debt issued by governments
of emerging market countries.
News wrap - up and releases from the worlds
of mining, energy production and metal production: Essential
Assets.
On a large scale, these companies are pursuing what many people have been doing with computers in their basements for years:
mining for a digital
asset that is now trading at around 13 times the price
of an ounce
of gold.
Under normal market conditions, the World Precious Minerals Fund will invest at least 80 %
of its net
assets in common stock, preferred stock, convertible securities, rights and warrants, and depository receipts
of companies principally engaged in the exploration for, or
mining and processing
of, precious minerals such as gold, silver, platinum group, palladium and diamonds.
Yet, despite the reality
of PM
Mining Stocks being the best performing asset class by far in the stock world this year, nearly every commercial bank and commercial brokerage fund manager completely avoids the asset class of Precious Metal mining stocks like it is kryptonite, and in fact, most of the time, refuses to even acknowledges the existence of this unique asset class, despite a supposed commitment to diversific
Mining Stocks being the best performing
asset class by far in the stock world this year, nearly every commercial bank and commercial brokerage fund manager completely avoids the
asset class
of Precious Metal
mining stocks like it is kryptonite, and in fact, most of the time, refuses to even acknowledges the existence of this unique asset class, despite a supposed commitment to diversific
mining stocks like it is kryptonite, and in fact, most
of the time, refuses to even acknowledges the existence
of this unique
asset class, despite a supposed commitment to diversification.
Holdings in the funds mentioned as a percentage
of net
assets as
of 06/30/2014: Klondex Mines Ltd. (1.34 % in Global Resources Fund, 6.58 % in Gold and Precious Metals Fund, 6.60 % in World Precious Minerals Fund); Comstock
Mining Inc. (3.57 % in Gold and Precious Metals Fund, 2.12 % in World Precious Minerals Fund); Franco - Nevada Corp. (0.53 % in All American Equity Fund, 2.21 % in Global Resources Fund, 2.45 % in Gold and Precious Metals Fund, 0.55 % in Holmes Macro Trends Fund, 1.16 % in World Precious Minerals Fund); Royal Gold Inc. (0.58 % in All American Equity Fund, 2.18 % in Global Resources Fund, 3.14 % in Gold and Precious Metals Fund, 0.59 % in Holmes Macro Trends Fund, 0.91 % in World Precious Minerals Fund).
After that, the prolonged correction
of underlying
assets (gold and silver) put pressure on the
mining stocks.
Holdings in the funds mentioned as a percentage
of net
assets as
of 09/04/2014: Alamos Gold, Inc. (0.04 % World Precious Minerals Fund); Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (2.11 % Global Resources Fund); Argonaut Gold (0.00 %); AuRico Gold, Inc. (1.85 % in Gold and Precious Metals Fund, 0.41 % World Precious Minerals Fund); B2Gold Corp. (0.00 %); Canadian Natural Resources, Ltd. (1.59 % Global Resources Fund); Cimarex Energy Co. (1.80 % Global Resources Fund); Detour Gold Corp. (0.00 %); Deutsche Bank (0.00 %); Devon Energy Corp. (1.82 % Global Resources Fund); JUMBO S.A. (0.00 %); Klondex Mines, Ltd. (7.76 % Gold and Precious Metals Fund, 7.51 % World Precious Minerals Fund, 1.22 % Global Resources Fund); Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (0.16 % Gold and Precious Metals Fund, 0.17 % World Precious Minerals Fund); Peyto Exploration & Development Corp. (1.31 % Global Resources Fund); Primero
Mining Corp. (0.05 % Gold and Precious Metals Fund, 0.02 % World Precious Minerals Fund); Suncor Energy, Inc. (2.13 % Global Resources Fund); Tsakos Energy Navigation, Ltd. (0.00 %); Türk Telekom (0.00 %); Turkcell (1.79 % Emerging Europe Fund).
David Harquail, chief executive officer
of Franco - Nevada Corp., said earlier Monday that the gold industry continues to be in an ex-growth phase where new
mining projects are simply replacing older
assets that are running out
of ore.
Consider that despite the stellar performance
of gold
mining stocks this year that have been, by far, the strongest performing
asset class
of 2016 (along with silver
mining stocks), and that even with the massive growth in market cap
of PM stocks during H1 2016, the total market cap
of all the
mining stocks that comprise the HUI Gold Bugs index, as
of 2 August 2016, is still barely larger than 1/3 the market cap
of Facebook and Amazon.
One feature hindering investment in both the NSW and Queensland coal industries is the fragmented ownership
of the supply - chain
assets; a large number
of mines share mostly state - government - owned rail and port infrastructure.
Probe's principal
asset is the 100 % - owned Borden Gold project located near Chapleau in Ontario, approximately 160 kilometers west
of Goldcorp's Porcupine
mine.
But today, Marc Faber sees
mining companies as one
of the only few
asset class left with very big upside potential.
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of Antiquity — the Athenian Owl Coin Week Apr 27 - Gold gains but remains vulnerable after Korean leaders meet Reuters Apr 26 - The Era of Very Low Inflation and Interest Rates May Be Near an End NY Times Apr 26 - What Is Gold: Asset, Commodity, Currency Or Collectibl
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of Very Low Inflation and Interest Rates May Be Near an End NY Times Apr 26 - What Is Gold: Asset, Commodity, Currency Or Collectibl
of Very Low Inflation and Interest Rates May Be Near an End NY Times Apr 26 - What Is Gold:
Asset, Commodity, Currency Or Collectible?
Noting that the transaction was the first
of its kind for the company following its initial public offering, Hutchison added that it «is consistent with its strategy to acquire royalties and streams on cobalt - related
assets in established, stable
mining districts.»
The NICO Project is a development stage primary cobalt
asset consisting
of a planned
mine, mill and concentrator in the Northwest Territories and hydrometallurgical refinery in Saskatchewan to produce cobalt sulphate, gold, bismuth ingot and oxide, and copper cement.
But there are some hints that Rio could use its fortress
of a balance sheet to start investing in other
mining assets.
Together with an enhanced exploration budget
of $ 125 - million, the objective
of Beyond 20/20 is to maximise the net
asset value
of our existing
mines and projects by continuing to grow low - cost gold production from our growing gold reserves,» Goldcorp president and CEO David Garofalo said in a statement.