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Technical and momentum analyst, Michael Oliver, joins us and answers your questions regarding the markets, Fed policy, gold, ...Read More
Chalice Mining, the relatively small Australian company which discovered the Julimar orebody, a world-class nickel deposit which is also rich in copper and platinum group metals, is locatedRead More
We spoke with Marc Roy, who is CEO of Focus Graphite Inc. (TSX.V: FMS; OTCQX: FCSMF; FRANKFURT: FKC), a technology-oriented exploration and development company that seeks to produce flake graphite concentrate at its wholly owned Lac Knife and Lac T?(C)t?(C)pisca flake graphite projects, located in the C??te-Nord administrative region of Qu?(C)bec. As part of its mission to build long-term, sustain...Read More
There's an enormous game of chicken being played out right before our eyes. With the midterms just a few weeks away, the planned release of 180 million barrels of oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve will be at an end. For the last seven months, the SPR has been unleashing a flood of oil to help satiate a thirsty crude market. But just how much oil is the world thirsty for?Back in December...Read More
With uranium prices continuing their slow climb over the last four years while the geopolitical situation highlights the need for secure energy supplies, all eyes are on Canada's next big uranium projects.Three top contenders are currently developing promising projects in the prolific Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan. Denison Mines: Saskatchewan's first ISR mine?On the southeastern edge o...Read More
Paladin Energy (ASX: PDN) has added another four provisional offtake agreements to its order book as it prepares to restart the Langer Heinrich uranium mine in Namibia by the first quarter of 2023, the Western Australia-based company announced on Friday.According to Paladin, the four tender awards entail supplying uranium to industry-leading counterparties in the U.S. and Europe.The company says i...Read More
Orosur Mining (TSXV: OMI; AIM: OMI) says diamond drilling at its flagship Anz?? gold project in Colombia returned "substantial" assays from the Pepas prospect. Drill hole PEP007 intersected 80.6 metres of 3.05 grams gold per tonne from surface, including 41.7 metres at 5.24 grams gold and 2.91 grams silver per tonne, the Toronto-based company said in a release on Friday. Drill hole PEP005 cut 36.8...Read More
At the most recent Mining Legends Speaker Series event at the Fairmont Pacific Rim in Vancouver, industry veteran Bob Quartermain, recently inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, walked the audience through the milestones of a life's work well worthy of the honour. Organized by The Northern Miner, the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame and Young Mining Professionals, the Mining Legends Speaker...Read More
Frontier Lithium (TSXV: FL; US-OTC: LITOF) is raising $20 million with which to continue exploration of the PAK lithium project in northwestern Ontario - one of the largest and highest grade spodumene resources in North America.The PAK deposit is located 175 km north of Red Lake, Ont. Frontier produced a preliminary economic assessment in 2021 and is working toward a prefeasibility study by the en...Read More
In one of my favorite movies, Braveheart, King Edward I muses:"The French will grovel to anyone with strength, but how will they believe our strength when we cannot rule the whole of our own island?"His point was simple... If we can't reign in a renegade province at home, how can we project strength to the rest of the world?Well, China feels the same way about Taiwan. To them, Taiwan is and alwa...Read More
Four holes completed, hole #5 underway Prismo Metals Inc. (CSE: PRIZ) (OTCQB: PMOMF) (theRead full newsRead More
By 2036, the coal resources required to run the coal-fired Belchatow power station in Poland will run dry.This, by the way, is the largest coal-fired power plant in Europe, which means this is not a trivial issue.So lawmakers and analysts are now trying to figure out what to do when, in less than 15 years, there will no longer be enough coal to keep the plant operational. Unsurprisingly, renewabl...Read More
I got into a bit of an online spat yesterday with a guy who took to Twitter to post lies and misinformation about electric vehicles (EVs).Of course, this isn't new.This has been happening since the first Tesla Roadster hit the media streams.There are literally thousands of people who to this day still want electric cars to fail.This is quite bizarre when you look at just how fast the electric vehi...Read More
Guyana-focused Omai Gold Mines (TSXV: OMG) has reported a near-doubling of the resource base after releasing a new resource estimate for its namesake gold project.The new resource update incorporates an expansion of the Wenot pit and adds the Gilt Creek deposit.The indicated resource grew 171% over the 2021 estimate to 1.9 million oz. gold held in 16.7 million tonnes grading 2.07 grams per tonne....Read More
Albemarle (NYSE: ALB), Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ: PLL) and Talon Metals (TSX: TLO) are among the companies marked for US$2.8 billion in Biden administration funding announced this week to help the critical minerals industry meet electric vehicle and other green energy targets. The White House selected 20 U.S. manufacturers and processors across 12 states for some of the first green metals fundi...Read More
Los Andes Copper (TSXV: LA; US-OTCQX) is eager to restart drilling at the flagship Vizcachitas porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit in Chile while it works in parallel to publish a pre-feasibility study on the project before year-end."General engineering work, infrastructure planning, plant design and environmental considerations are all on track with the plan to complete the (prefeasibility) in the...Read More
Nouveau Monde Graphite (TSXV: NOU; NYSE: NMG) has entered into a framework agreement with Mitsui & Co. and Panasonic Energy establishing the terms of a commercial relationship that enables the next development steps of the company's ore-to-battery-market integrated graphite project in Quebec.Under the strategic partnership framework, there is a non-binding memorandum of understanding on an offtake...Read More
Ecora Resources (TSX: ECOR), a mining royalties company, is betting its shift to green-economy investing in projects by giants such as Vale (NYSE: VALE) and Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) will propel it through a looming recession. The London-based company formerly called Anglo Pacific has a US$200-million war chest in revolving credit from lenders such as CIBC, Scotiabank and RBC w...Read More
As the world looks for low-carbon energy solutions, more nations are coming to the conclusion that nuclear power needs to be part of the mix. Here are seven junior companies looking for the next uranium deposits to power the nuclear renaissance. BASIN URANIUM In early September, Basin Uranium (CSE: NCLR, US-OTC: BURCF) announced the intersection of significant uranium mineralization in first-pha...Read More