Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related public health restrictions, Cameco was unable to conduct an in-person public tour of ...Read More
The Metalla team, including President & CEO, Brett Heath, VP Corporate Development, Drew Clark; CFO, Saurabh Handa; ...Read More
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Environmental activists tried to stop the expansion of a large coal mine by staging sit-in protests. They argue that Germany cannot meet its climate goals unless it stops extracting and burning coal sooner than planned.Read full newsRead More
Russian energy giant Gazprom has started using its inventories to pump more natural gas into the pipeline network to stabilise surging prices, a Russian official said on Tuesday.Gazprom has in fact started pumping out from its reserves into the pipelines to stabilise the market,Read full newsRead More
Supply pressure has pushed the aluminium price to its highest point since 2008, with the spot price up 3.27% to US$3,044.50 per tonne.Marex's Al Munro on the LME desk referred to a report that Europe's aluminium production might come to a complete stop by year-end as current magnesium inventories - where China is the main supplier - are only expected to last to the end of November.China's power wo...Read More
Fission Uranium Corp (TSX: FCU) - which has the Patterson Lake South uranium project in Saskatchewan - led gains as it closed up 30.8%.The uranium spot price rose more than 2% to $39.70/lb, having neared a nine-year high around $50/lb last month.The Sprott Physical Uranium Trust has continued its buying spree, saying last week its holdings exceeded 30 million pounds.Its shares (TSX: U.U) rose 6.8%...Read More
After a tricky start to the year, higher than expected ore mined coupled with higher rougher feed grades in the PGM circuit saw PGM production rise 12.Read More
Share this article VANCOUVER - Standard Lithium Ltd. [SLI-TSXV, NYSE, S5L-FRA] has released positive results of preliminary economic assessment (PEA) as well as an updated inferred mineral resource for its Southwest Arkansas lithium project, also known as the Lanxess Project.Standard Lithium shares advanced on the news, rising 7.5% or 73 cents to $10.43 on volume of 444,910. The shares currently...Read More
We spoke with John Darch, who is Chairman and Director, and Ken MacLeod, who is President and CEO, of Sonoro Gold Corp. (TSXV: SGO, OTCQB: SMOFF, FRA: 23SP). Sonoro Gold is a junior gold explorer, making the transition to gold producer, with properties in the mining-friendly jurisdiction of Sonora, Mexico. On September 15, 2021, Sonoro Gold announced positive PEA results and a new mineral resource...Read More
"Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth, and sea obey."- Canute the GreatCanute the Great started life as a Viking warrior and ended it as the king of England, Denmark, Norway, and part of Sweden. He was the son of Sweyn Forkbeard and the grandson of the famous Harald Bluetooth.At one point, the king overhear...Read More
Shortly after mobilizing the first drill rig to its Silver Strand brownfields asset in Idaho, U.S., newly renamed Silver Hammer Mining (CSE: HAMR) is aiming at building a multi-asset silver-focused producer with both large-scale resource growth and near-term production potential, president Morgan Lekstrom tells The Northern Miner.Formerly known as Lakewood Exploration, the junior resource company...Read More
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) said today that expansion of its Kamoa-Kakula mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest copper operation to come online in decades, is ahead of schedule, with full production now expected in the second quarter next year. Construction of the mine's Phase 2 concentrator plant was originally expected to finish in the summer of 2022, the company sai...Read More
Newcrest Mining (TSX: NCM; ASX: NCM), operator of the Red Chris gold-copper mine, says a just-completed prefeasibility study for underground block caving at the operation confirms its potential to become a world class, long life mine. The study pegs the capital cost of the project, which is 30% owned by Imperial Metals (TSX: III; US-OTC: IPMLF), at $2.6 billion.This is the first National Instrumen...Read More
Antofagasta (LSE: ANTO) has become the first mining company in Chile to set-up a pilot project to advance the use of hydrogen in large mining equipment, especially haulage trucks. The pilot, set up at the company's Centinela copper mine in Chile's north, is part of the US$1.2 million HYDRA project, developed by the Australian government, Brisbane-based mining research center Mining3, Mi...Read More
This week's episode features Mining Intelligence managing director Katja Freitag in conversation with Northern Miner Group publisher Anthony Vaccaro at the Global Mining Symposium. Katja explains the different ways that Mining Intelligence data can help companies and organizations "understand what's happening" in the mining industry. Katja has a diverse, multifaceted understanding of mining, which...Read More
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) CEO Mark Bristow is set to meet with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape this week, with the aim of speeding up the restart of the country's Porgera gold mine. Bristow, who is joined by other senior Barrick executives, arrived in PNG on Tuesday and will stay until Friday as part of a regular visit, the Porgera Joint Venture said.Porgera has b...Read More
We spoke with Don Mosher, President and Director of Desert Mountain Energy (TSX.V: DME, U.S. OTC: DMEHF, Frankfurt: QM01). Desert Mountain Energy is building their Holbrook Basin Helium Project, in Arizona, into a vertically integrated Helium producer, with their own solar facility, to produce their own electricity, and with plans to sell directly to end users, primarily in Arizona. They have now...Read More
Seaborne thermal coal prices in Asia climbed to fresh record highs last week, with early signs of rising exports not enough to eclipse concerns over coal shortages in top importers China and India.Read full newsRead More
Oil prices jumped on Monday to the highest levels in years, fuelled by rebounding global demand that has contributed to power and gas shortages in key economies like China.Read full newsRead More