We spoke with Stephen Hanson, who is Founder, President, and CEO of ACME Lithium Inc. (CSE: ACME, OTCQX: ACLHF), a lithium exploration company, with a world class portfolio of projects, located in the United States and Canada. ACME has acquired, or is under option to acquire, a 100-per-cent interest in projects, located in Clayton Valley and Fish Lake Valley, Esmeralda County, Nevada, and at Cat-E...Read More
Japan's Honda Motor and South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution plan to invest US$4.4 billion to build a new battery production plant for electric vehicles in the U.S.The news comes on the heels of a string of recent announcements that aim at cutting China out of supply chains for EVs.It also marks the latest plans by automakers to invest in U.S. production of battery cells for EVs, as the i...Read More
Three diamond drills are turning at Collective Mining's (TSXV: CNL; US-OTC: CNLMF) newly discovered copper-gold-silver Apollo target in west-central Colombia.Apollo is one of eight porphyry-related targets the company has found within a 3-km by 4-km cluster, and is part of the Guayabales project, where it has an option to earn 100% interest.The new results are from two diamond drill holes - APC-3...Read More
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index drifted slightly lower over the Aug. 8-12 trading session by 0.6% or 3.99 points to end the week at 645.92. Shares in lithium developer Sigma Lithium rose $5.98 or 23.4% during the session to end at $31.53 apiece. Sigma continues with construction of its Grota do Cirilo spodumene project in Brazil's Minas Gerais state, with commissioning of the first-phase pla...Read More
Over the Aug. 22-26 trading period, the S&P/ TSX Composite Index fell 238.09 points or 1.18% lower, to 19,873.29. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index gained 2.37 points or 2.54% to 95.54, and the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index gained 8.5 points or 5.28% to 169.6. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index fell by 2.89 points or 1.22% to 233.36, and spot gold ended the week at US50 ? per oz. higher, or 0.29%, at...Read More
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1,423.34 points or 4.22% to 32,283.40, and the S&P 500 closed the trading week at 170.82 points or 4.04% lower at 4,057.66.The week's top US-based value gainers were three potash companies, highlighting an intensifying supply squeeze brought on by Russia's war in Ukraine.Intrepid Potash was the trading week's top value gainer, adding US$12.73 to close at US$55...Read More
The need to discover new sizeable economic nickel deposits has never been more acute as the world transitions to a clean-energy-driven economy that relies heavily on nickel-based battery technologies and more robust nickel-infused steel products. Set against this backdrop, The Northern Miner presents a top-ten ranking of the best nickel drill intercepts reported up to Aug. 17, 2022, with the top...Read More
Graphite One (TSXV: GPH; US-OTC: GPHOF) has released a prefeasibility study on developing a mine at its Graphite Creek property in Alaska and building a battery anode materials manufacturing plant in Washington state. The study was based on a proposed mine life of 23 years and a 26-year operating life for the manufacturing plant, which would use purchased graphite for the first four years until t...Read More
Colombian finance minister Jos?(C) Antonio Ocampo said the government has withdrawn a plan to introduce a 10% duty on gold exports included in the tax reform bill submitted by the new leftist government of President Gustavo Petro in early August.The proposal sought a 10% export tax on the value of gold exports whenever the metal price exceeded US$400 per ounce.The benefits of such plan would have...Read More
Our TNM Drill Down feature highlights the top gold assays of the past week. Assays are ranked by gold grade x width, as identified by our sister company Mining Intelligence. TNM Drill Down Aug. 19-26, 2022.Brisbane-based Santana Minerals (ASX: SMI) delivered the top intercept of the week from its Bendigo-Ophir project in New Zealand's Central Otago goldfields. Hole MDD054 cut 1 metre of 1,400...Read More
Dear Outsider,America was founded on debt.From 1703 to 1775, the 13 Colonies borrowed huge sums of money from the British.At the time of the American Revolution, Colonial merchants and planters owed British creditors 5 million pounds.While the colonists worked to build a "free market," the British were embroiled in multiple wars, including the Seven Years' War, which doubled the national debt and...Read More
En Fruta del Norte la gesti??n de la biodiversidad es uno de los componentes de nuestro compromiso con la miner?-a responsable.Read More
Subscribe! http://bit.ly/NewsMarketUpdates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 02:07 Cura 04:26 Tlry 08:51 Acb ...Read More
The Greens rental freeze policy proposal defies logic. I am all for seeing things for the other sides perspective but I genuinely don't ...Read More
There's an ocean of oil profits out there.Now, I understand the media narrative is that all of these oil profits are being funneled straight into the pockets of Big Oil. I get it. It's an easy narrative to piggy-back onto, isn't it?After all, Exxon alone posted a quarterly profit recently of $17.9 billion! To put a little more perspective on that number, that's a higher quarterly profit than any...Read More
Vancouver-based American Pacific Mining (CSE: USGD; US-OTCQX: USGDF) has announced the acquisition of Constantine Metal Resources (TSXV: CEM) and its Palmer zinc-copper-gold-silver volcanic massive sulphide project north of Haines in Alaska.The transaction provides American Pacific with a second, advanced-stage asset under an active joint venture exploration agreement with a much deeper-pocketed p...Read More
More than a decade after the 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan roiled the uranium industry, the country has announced a major policy shift towards restarting idled reactors.On Aug. 24, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced that Japan would restart more suspended nuclear power plants and look at developing next-generation reactors. This represents a signif...Read More
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO, ASX: RIO) announced Friday it is investing $35 million to build a new aluminum recycling facility at its Arvida Plant in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Que.The investment will expand its offering of low-carbon aluminum solutions for customers in the automotive, packaging and construction markets and the facility will make Rio Tinto the first primary aluminum producer in North Ameri...Read More
Nevada Copper (TSX: NCU; US-OTC: NEVDF) plans to restart and ramp up its Pumpkin Hollow underground mine in Nevada and has agreed to non-binding terms with lenders for up to US$93 million. The restart plan involves de-bottlenecking and completing critical capital projects and building up stope ore inventory in order to achieve a more efficient ramp up once the mill restarts, as well as reducing c...Read More
Four months after closing the acquisition of Canada's Noront Resources and its Eagle's Nest project in Ontario's Ring of Fire, one of the world's largest undeveloped high-grade nickel sulphide deposits, privately held Wyloo Metals is investing A$150 million in Hastings Technology Metals (ASX: HAS), a rare earths developer in Australia.Hastings Technology, which hopes to become the world's next pro...Read More