Sarama Resources Ltd. ("Sarama" or the "Company") (ASX:SRR, TSX- V:SWA) is pleased to provide an update on the planned +50,000m drilling program at its 100%-owned(4), multi-million ounce Sanutura Project (the "Project") (news release dated May 12, 2022). The drilling program was designed to material...Read full newsRead More
We spoke with Dave O'Brien, President and CEO, and Executive Director of Stuhini Exploration Ltd. (TSX-V: STU), a mineral exploration company, with a portfolio of exploration properties, in western Canada. The Company's flagship asset is Ruby Creek Molybdenum Property, located approximately 20 km East of Atlin, BC. The road accessible project hosts a world-class molybdenum resource, with multiple...Read More
Guys like Elon Musk and Larry Ellison like to talk a lot of smack about California.And while criticisms of overzealous regulation and high taxation are credible, I still love the Golden State.In fact, I was in the Bay Area last weekend and loved every second of it...The food, the people, the tremendous views of golden-hour sunsets over the ocean.California is a magical place. It's also an incredib...Read More
The U.K. is facing a crisis. No, not our mounting supply issues, soaring cost inflation or the sudden change in political leadership; rather, the plummeting numbers of drinking establishments and graduate mining engineers. A survey in 1577 found that there were over 16,000 alehouses, taverns (generally larger than alehouses and also served wine) and inns in England and Wales. With a combined p...Read More
Japan's Panasonic is deepening its ties with electric vehicles (EVs) maker Tesla by planning a battery plant in Kansas, which will cost US$4 billion.The facility is expected to supply the EV giant with a new high-capacity battery and boost Panasonic Energy's production capacity by fiscal 2028 from the current level of roughly 50 gigawatt-hours per year to 150 to 200 GWh.The Japanese company, the w...Read More
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) is investing US$188 million to increase the production capacity for low-carbon, high-value aluminum billets at its Alma smelter in Lac-Saint-Jean, Que., by 202,000 tonnes.The existing casting centre at Rio Tinto's Alma plant will be expanded to accommodate new state-of-the-art equipment, including a casting pit and furnaces, allowing a larger portion of th...Read More
Barrick Gold (NYSE: GOLD; TSX: ABX) has reported its preliminary second quarter operating results, showing total gold production of 1 million oz. and copper production of 120 million lb. During the quarter, it managed to sell all of the gold produced and 113 million lb. of copper.The gold output represents a 5.4% increase over the first quarter of 2022, which Barrick has said would be its lowest p...Read More
Anglo American (LSE: AAL) and Japan's Nippon Steel have joined forces to develop solutions for lower-carbon steelmaking, a process responsible for up to 9% of global greenhouse emissions.The companies will research ways to optimize premium lump ore produced by Anglo American's mines in Brazil and South Africa to decrease emissions in the traditional blast furnace (BF) steelmaking process.The partn...Read More
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Tartisan Nickel (CSE: TN; US-OTC: TTSRF) has announced results of a positive preliminary economic assessment for its flagship Kenbridge nickel project, adjusting the mine plan to focus solely on mining resources from underground. Located in the Kenora mining district of northwestern Ontario, the Kenbridge project currently has an existing shaft to a depth of 622 metres.The PEA indicates a nine-yea...Read More
Share this articleVANCOUVER - Osisko Metals Inc. [OM-TSXV, BWMXF-OTC] on Wednesday released the results of an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Pine Point project in the Northwest Territories, which is expected to be a producer of ultra-clean zinc concentrate.The objective of the 2022 PEA update was to integrate updated long-term prices for zinc and lead, increased mined resour...Read More
Talon Metals (TSX: TLO; US-OTC: TLOFF) has reported high-grade nickel and copper assay results from its Tamarack nickel project in Minnesota. The drill results come from CGO East, an area of 500 metres by 900 metres outside of the nickel project's defined resource area.Highlights from eight infill holes included 6.56 metres grading 2.95% nickel and 1.01% copper starting at a depth of 133.60 metr...Read More
Wallbridge Mining (TSX: WM; US-OTC: WLBMF) is selling its nickel assets to Archer Exploration (CSE: RCHR) in an all-share deal worth $53.6 million.The company said it wants to focus on its core gold projects Fenelon and Martiniere, and is selling its Grasset and RUM projects in Quebec and its Sudbury and NW projects in Ontario.Under the deal, Wallbridge will receive about 198.6 million common sh...Read More
Belgium-based Umicore, a circular materials technology firm, plans to invest $1.5 billion to build a manufacturing plant in Ontario for cathode active battery materials and their precursor ingredients. The company aims to start construction in 2023 and kick off operations at the end of 2025, with the goal of supplying battery components to about 1 million electric vehicles a year by 2030.?EUR? U...Read More
As economies around the world decarbonize, the increasing demand for electric vehicles and green energy storage technologies is driving a boom in the exploration and development of technology-metals deposits, among them lithium, cobalt, nickel, and rare earths. Here are eight mining companies supporting the global transition to a clean energy future. CANADA SILVER COBALT WORKSThe Castle mine wa...Read More
Osisko Metals (TSXV: OM; US-OTC: OMZNF) has released an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its wholly owned Pine Point base metals project located near the town of Hay River, NWT. The study was prepared in collaboration with independent engineering firms BBA, WSP Canada and Hydro-Resources.The objective of the PEA was to integrate updated long-term prices for zinc and lead, increase...Read More
Rock Tech Lithium (TSXV: RCK; US-OTC: RCKTF) has signed a framework agreement with an unnamed global car maker headquartered in Germany to supply lithium hydroxide over an initial five-year period.Rock Tech is building a lithium hydroxide converter in Germany (Guben, Brandenburg), and expects to start production there in 2024. The facility is forecast to have a production capacity of 24,000 tonnes...Read More
Dundee Precious Metals (TSX: DPM) has scored a win in Ecuador as a local court upheld the validity of the company's environmental permits for exploration at its Loma Larga gold underground project.The Judicial Labour Unit of the southern city of Cuenca also reaffirmed Dundee's mining concessions, by ruling that the mining ministry had not violated certain rights relating to the protection of wate...Read More
Cash-strapped Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM; LSE: PUR) has kicked off a strategic review process that could involve a potential sale or merger of the company, a sale of all or part of its gold mine in Ontario, or other long-term financing options.The evaluation is being conducted with "the objective of maximizing shareholder value and the value of the Pure Gold mine in Ontario," the Canadian miner s...Read More
About a month ago, Reuters reported on an astronomical gold discovery made in Uganda that some have estimated to be worth more than $12 trillion.The media outlet wrote that a spokesperson from Uganda's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development told it that recent exploration had revealed the discovery of 31 million tonnes of gold ore from which 320,158 tonnes of refined gold could be mined.That's...Read More