Copper Gets a Pick-Me-Up
Copper – Copper prices are up on the London exchange supported by a weak dollar and better-than-expected economic data from Japan.
Copper – Copper prices are up on the London exchange supported by a weak dollar and better-than-expected economic data from Japan.
Platinum – Ivanplats Ltd. (TSX:IVP) announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2013, commenting that the mineral resources at its Flatreef deposit, which is located at the company's South Africa-based Platreef platinum-palladium-gold-rhodium-nickel-copper project, have been expanded and upgraded by a new resource estimate.
Copper – Copper Investing News recently spoke with Brad Marwood, managing director of Tiger Resources. Brad discussed Tiger's producing copper-cobalt project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and helped clear up some of the negative perception that investors might have when it comes to operations in that region.
Copper – Ivanplats Limited (TSX:IVP) announced that it is business as usual for their Kamoa copper discovery, despite a recent move by the DRC to ban copper exports.
Copper – Ivanplats (TSX:IVP) announced that they have signed an MOU with DRC'sstate-owned power company, La Société Nation, to secure an additional power supply for their Kamoa copper discovery in Katanga province.
Cobalt – In the world’s top cobalt producer — the Democratic Republic of the Congo — less than 10 percent of the population has electricity.
Nickel – Ivanplats’ (TSX:IVP) CEO, Robert Friedland, announced today that an intensive drilling program at its Flatreef Discovery project in South Africa showed results for indicated and inferred resources with substantial amounts of nickel deposits.
Palladium – The executive chairman of Ivanplats (TSX:IVP), Robert Friedland, announced through a speech at the Investing in African Mining Indaba Conference, that a drilling which took place in the company-owned Flatreef Discovery dramatically expanded its precious metal resources, including palladium.
Platinum – Ivanplats (TSX:IVP) executive chairman, Robert Friedland, announced that a drilling program that took place between 2011 and 2012 at the company’s Flatreef Discovery, which is situated in Bushveld Complex in South Africa, expanded its precious metal resources, including platinum.
Copper – Mining Weekly reported that Ivanplats has reported that recent drilling at the South African Bushveld complex has confirmed a significant expansion for the Flatreef platinum/palladium/gold/rhodium/nickel/copper deposit.
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