From a lack of skilled professionals to rising costs due to inflation amidst the pressure to quickly build an entirely new industry, Canada must overcome several obstacles before it can build the battery ecosystem it often promotes, industry experts said at a session at this week's PDAC conference in Toronto.While the country has over the last year taken steps to support miners hunting for battery...Read More
Kinross Gold (TSX: G; NYSE: KGC) said on Wednesday it had sold its Kupol mine and Udinsk project in Russia to Highland Gold Mining for a total of $340 million in cash, half of the price announced in April.The Canadian miner suspended operations in Russia in early March to both comply with Western sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine and avoid reputational damage by staying in th...Read More
Critical Elements (TSXV: CRE; OTC: CRECF) has delivered a new feasibility study on its wholly owned Rose lithium-tantalum project situated in the Eeyou-Istchee, James Bay region of Quebec, confirming the potential for a low-risk, reliable producer of high-quality lithium.The study envisions a 17-year operation that will excavate a total of 26.3 million tonnes of ore grading 0.87% Li2O (lithium o...Read More
For investors and companies involved in the extraction industries, it has been impossible to ignore the meteoric rise of battery materials in recent years. Over the course of 2021, cobalt prices more than doubled, rising by 119%, lithium prices surged almost 400% and copper prices also reached all-time highs.A significant driver of these price movements is the energy transition, which represents t...Read More
In the Northwest Territories, infrastructure that lags behind southern Canada is limiting the potential of the territory's mining development and increasing its costs as well, said leaders of the N.W.T. government at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference in Toronto on June 14. Premier Caroline Cochrane and Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment Caroline Wawz...Read More
Wrapping up a speech at the Port of Los Angeles, President Joe Biden took a swing at oil companies on Friday, blaming them for not doing enough to keep oil prices low.Biden was asked specifically about ExxonMobil. The President replied, "We're going to make sure that everybody knows Exxon's profits. Why don't you tell them what Exxon's profits were this year - this quarter? Exxon made more money t...Read More
Today we talk about the first investment I've made in a startup, what the company is, and why I believe in it. Instagram: ...Read More
Since the discovery of Kora North in May 2017, K92 Mining has hit the ground running and it's not stopping. There is expansion potential for gold and copper surrounding its flagship asset in Papua New Guinea.K92 Mining (TSX-KNT)K92 Mining is a producing gold company focused on its Kainantu gold mine located in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. The Kainantu project (acquired from...Read More
The key investment bankers behind the merger and acquisitions flow used an event at the PDAC conference in Toronto to reassure that merger and acquisition activity is likely to continue despite aRead More
Share this article VANCOUVER - E2Gold Inc. [ETU-TSXV] is set to launch an initial drill program on its Band-Ore project in northwestern Ontario. The company said the 1,000-metre drill program will test historic resources and a geophysical anomaly.Periodic exploration over the last 90 years, including that by Noranda Mines, has produced highly encouraging rock sample assays, and drill hole trenc...Read More
Inflation is the name of the game, and the game is running hot. We are at 8.6% inflation if you go by the latest consumer price index. The Fed has hiked interest rates to 1% in order to slow down the rate of inflation by cooling off the economy. It is forecast to hike to 1.5% by the end of the quarter and to 3.5% by 2023.Offsetting this is the fact that unemployment is at 3.6% and the government p...Read More
Geoscience BC has successfully demonstrated how an ordinary brewery and greenhouse gas meter can aid in finding new mineralized deposits.The organization said on June 14, the made-in-British-Columbia device was tested at the Mount Milligan copper-gold mine located between Fort St. James and Mackenzie.The device measures oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in soil (soil-gas) in real-time, indi...Read More
If gold companies want to survive the future of mining, which will entail low-grade ores and the required responses to climate change, they will need to consolidate, said Newmont (NYSE: NEM, TSX: NGT) CEO Tom Palmer, during his keynote speech on the second day of PDAC 2022 in Toronto. According to Palmer, miners are identifying fewer "large scale and transformative" gold deposits that are harder...Read More
Just ahead of a runoff presidential election in Colombia that will determine current president Iv??n Duque's successor, The Northern Miner caught up with the country's Minister of Mines and Energy, Diego Mesa Puyo at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention on June 13 in Toronto. Colombia has been trying to diversify its mining sector away from thermal coal, and Mesa...Read More
This week's episode features former Ontario Securities Commission chair and CEO Maureen Jensen in conversation with Northern Miner senior reporter Henry Lazenby at the Global Mining Symposium. Maureen discusses the shortage of millennial talent in the mining industry, the challenge of reaching net-zero by 2030, prospects for war and instability, and the importance of avoiding politics in the board...Read More
Canada's Adventus Mining (TSX-V: ADZN) and Salazar Resources (TSX-V: SRL) have reached a preliminary investment protection agreement (IPA) with Ecuador's government for their Curipamba-El Domo copper and gold project.As part of the deal, the partners have committed to investing US$270 million over the next 12 years in the project. The figure doesn't include the US$50 million both miners have inv...Read More
Mexico-focused precious metals miner Orla Mining (TSX: OLA; NYSE: ORLA) is expanding its footprint into the U.S. with the acquisition of Gold Standard Ventures (TSX: GSV; NYSE: GSV), whose main asset is the South Railroad open-pit project located on the Carlin trend in Nevada.Earlier this year, Gold Standard completed a robust feasibility study for the South Railroad gold project, outlining a mill...Read More
These are bewildering times. The state of the economy seems more up in the air than usual. Some say a recession is already upon us. Others that one will come yet this year, or in 2023. Others, including CPM Group, state that a recession is inevitable and imminent, but it might be 2024, 2025, or even 2026 before it arrives. The reality is that there still is a lot of slack in major parts of the Nor...Read More
Jun 7, 2022 This summit introduces Lavras Gold and its Lavras do Sul (LDS) gold project in southern Brazil, including a general ...Read More
Sep 21, 2021 Join the Founder of Save Canadian Mining, Terry Lynch, for a live conversation with Wes Christian, the world's ...Read More