The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dealt a fresh blow to PolyMet Mining's (TSX: POM) plans to build an open pit copper-nickel mine in Minnesota, by recommending that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers not re-issue a key water-related permit.The agency said this week that the US$1-billion NorthMet project, the first large-scale project to be permitted within the Duluth Complex in nort...Read More
Glencore (LSE: GLEN) has inked a deal with Toronto-based Li-Cycle Holdings (NYSE: LICY) to supply the company with all types of manufacturing scrap and end-of-life lithium-ion batteries. The company will also invest US$200 million in Li-Cycle once the agreement is executed, which would give it the right to nominate its head of recycling, Kunal Sinha, on to Li-Cycle's board. The deal is expected...Read More
A new metric to quantify the amount of waste rock generated by mining critical minerals has been created by the U.S. Geological Survey and Apple.Called the "rock-to-metal ratio," the new metric indicates how much ore and waste must be mined, moved and processed to produce a given unit of a mineral commodity. This information has not previously been available on a global scales.The new rock-to-meta...Read More
Centerra Gold (TSX: CG; NYSE: CGAU) saw its first quarter results hit by the suspension of its ?-ks? 1/4 t mine in Turkey, where the adsorption-desorption recovery (ADR) plant has been out of commission since Mar. 18, with no clear timeline for its reopening.The Canadian gold miner posted net earnings of $89.4 million in the first three months of the year, compared to $167.4 million in the first...Read More
Gold Fields Limited (NYSE: GFI; JSE: GFI) says higher-than-expected inflation levels have started eroding the contingency built into the US$860 million capital expenditure (capex) budget for its 100%-owned Salares Norte development project in Chile.CEO Chris Griffith said in Gold Fields's March-quarter production report on May 5 that the cost overrun could hit up to 7% compared with the company's...Read More
Endeavour Mining (TSX: EDV; LSE: EDV) has pulled the trigger on building a recyanidation circuit at its cornerstone Ity operation in C??te d'Ivoire earlier than expected as it seeks to optimize the operation.The US$41 million investment has been moved forward given that the operation is producing excess cash flow in the high gold price environment. With strong operational performance and a cautiou...Read More
3%. That's the first take.That's the cost so far, it seems. That's what spiking the economy with the pandemic stimulus - stimuli? - seems to mean for inflation we're seeing today.I'm hesitant to even mention it. We're still dealing with the fallout from the most unprecedented expansion of money in ALL of our lifetimes. This will echo for many years to come.Yet we're far enough away from the stimul...Read More
Equinox Gold is a growth-focused Canadian mining company operating entirely in the Americas, with seven operating gold mines ...Read More
Endeavour CEO, Sebastien de Montessus, summarises the Company's strong Q1-2022 results For more information on today's ...Read More
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Ken Norquay notes that small investors can move in and out of markets without disturbing a thing. Large investors can't. Our plans should take this into account.Today the press is highlighting the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Last month it was convoys of protesting truckers and the prime minister's declaration of an emergency. Maybe next month it will be China invading Taiwan. Or the FED raisi...Read More
US Senator Martin Heinrich, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has introduced the Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act.Read More
Share this articleVANCOUVER - Iamgold Corp [IMG-TSX, IAG-NYSE] is facing a sharp rise in the estimated completion costs at its Cote gold construction project, which is located north of Sudbury OntarioThe warning is contained in the company's financial and operating results for the first quarter of 2022, which were released after the close of trading on May 3, 2022. Iamgold also said its current Ch...Read More
We spoke with Simon Delander, who is Vice President of Sustainability for Federation Mining, an Australian incorporated company, established by experienced Australian underground mining engineers Mark Le Messurier & Jim Askew, with the purpose of building a new gold/copper mining company. Federation Mining has signed an Agreement, with leading gold miner OceanaGold, for the future development of S...Read More
Call it a very unfortunate case of being misheard.Just around nine months ago, we talked about why 2022 was shaping up to be a bullish year. I even offered my top oil stock.You know the one. It's the must-own company sitting in your portfolio that was ready to blossom. Maybe it's a stock that had its ups and downs in a weak market price environment. Perhaps a buying opportunity opened up that yo...Read More
New Found Gold (TSXV: NFG; NYSE-A: NFGC) has reported more high-grade gold results from its ongoing, 400,000-metre drill program at its Queensway project in Newfoundland. Highlights from the drilling included 6.8 metres grading 8.7 grams gold per tonne starting from 98.3 metres in drill hole NFGC-22-533; and 2.2 metres grading 275 grams gold starting from 32.5 metres in drill hole NFGC-22-538....Read More
Shares of Baselode Energy (TSXV: FIND; US-OTC: BSENF) rose to their highest in May as the company reported elevated radioactivity in a near-surface interval in drill hole AK22-038 as part of the company's ongoing 20,000-metre drill program on the Ackio uranium discovery at its Hook project, in northern Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin.The drill hole reported a radioactivity of 914 counts per second,...Read More
SRK Consulting has built deep experience working in the African mining sector and has developed a firm grasp of where potential opportunities are and some of the critical challenges preventing the industry from contributing to local economies to its fullest potential.The Northern Miner's senior reporter, Henry Lazenby, caught up with SRK Consulting director and principal consultant Andrew van Zyl...Read More
Champion Iron (TSX: CIA; US-OTC: CIAFF) has completed the first rail shipments containing 24,304 tonnes of high-grade 66.2% Fe iron ore concentrate from the Phase II expansion project at the Bloom Lake mine in Quebec.The mine complex is located approximately 13 km north of Fermont, and 10 km north of the Mont Wright iron ore mining complex belonging to ArcelorMittal Mines Canada. The Bloom Lake...Read More