Barrick boosts inventory of “key commodities” due to coronavirus

Exploration and evaluation expenditure for Q4 2013 totalled $166 million, a decrease of 19%.

Vancouver miner ups output at Central American project 20% to 320,000 tonnes copper a year as it overhauls construction plans for $6.4 billion mine acquired last year.

Expects sales and revenues to be similar to 2013 as sales to the resource industry decline modestly.

Perfecting a strategy honed with copper and gold, Dan Gertler sells back to the DRC an oil block for $150 million acquired 7 years before for $500,000.

The steep, last minute metal concentrate tax slapped on copper miners has brought exports to a standstill.

Lemieux believes that with the wheat separated from the chaff over the past tumultuous year, the truly strong companies have emerged. But you may be surprised by the jurisdictions he predicts will come to life in 2014.

CEO calls it a 'conservative approach.'

Chinese manufacturing activity records surprise contraction and US slows down against expectations, pushing the copper price down 3% to below $3.30 a pound.

But it also recommends an exhaustive review of the permit issued in 2006, as well as the miner’s glacier monitoring plan.