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Screwed in the DRC?

Alphamin’s shareholders have had a rough year and now they are being subjected to the rough end ofthe pineapple as they say in Australia. The poor price at which the transaction was executed might seemto indicate that the “business as usual” press releases from the company are, as we signalled rathereconomical with the truth.

The Mating Dance of the Elephants

Our thoughts here may be rendered redundant very swiftly if Glencore and Rio Tinto decide to tie the knot. However, this story has been doing the rounds now for some time and seems even less likely that it was when we first heard it, particularly as Rio Tinto has been left leaderless in recent weeks…

Tensions Drive Fertilizer Action

Yara CEO, Svein Holsether, has been on a worldwide campaign to denounce Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as the link between Europe’s fertilizer dependence and Russia’s geopolitical risk. He continued this campaign during the escalation of the Middle East Conflict in May to draw links between food security concerns and the EU’s dependence on…

Noboa executing Ecuador mining agenda

The re-election of Daniel Noboa as president of Ecuador will likely see several mining projects enter into production or take big steps towards doing so, including a new generation of projects from when the mining cadastre was last open: Silvercorp Metals’ (TSX:SVM) Condor, Solaris Resources’ (TSX:SLS) Warintza and Sunstone Metals’ (ASX:STM) Bramaderos projects. Their likely advancement during…