The deal starts in 2025 and covers up to 600,000 pounds of U3O8 based on market pricing with a floor price "that assures our costs of production are met in today's economic environment", the company said.The deal—which is with a US based nuclear power company, made following a site visit to the Texan operation—also includes an inflation adjusted ceiling price higher than the...Read More
His intentions may not be nefarious, but President Biden's gas tax holiday is absolutely an exercise in bureaucratic buffoonery. Last week, the president called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months. He claims that by doing this, it will provide some much-needed relief at the pump - and there's a shred of truth to that. The federal gas tax is $0.184 per gallon. Most folks i...Read More
West Africa-focused gold explorer Montage Gold (TSXV: MAU) has closed a financing of approximately $20 million to fund its acquisition and subsequent development of the Mankono-Siss?(C)dougou joint venture project in C??te d'Ivoire.The financing involves the private placement of roughly 28.6 million subscription receipts, each priced at $0.70 and convertible into one common share of the company. T...Read More
Osisko Development (TSXV: ODV; NYSE: ODV) has provided an initial open-pit resource estimate for the Sapuchi, Golfo de Oro, California, High Life and Calvario deposits at its San Antonio project in Sonora state, Mexico.Indicated resources total 14.9 million tonnes grading 1.2 grams gold per tonne and 2.9 grams silver for 576,000 oz. of gold and 1.4 million oz. of silver. An additional 16.6 million...Read More
Shares of Star Diamond (TSX: DIAM) fell by more than 50% on June 29, after the company announced that Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) had exercised its voting power to place the Star - Orion South Diamond project on care and maintenance until the end of the year. Star Diamond holds a 25% interest in certain Fort ? la Corne kimberlites, including the Star - Orion South Diamond project...Read More
Precious metals miner Sibanye-Stillwater (NYSE: SBSW; JSE: SSW) revealed on Thursday that is in talks to take a controlling stake in Finnish lithium firm Keliber, adding that the plan is to have an 80% in the company, which aims to be Europe's first fully integrated lithium producer.The South African miner currently has a 30.3% stake, held through Keliber Oy which owns the namesake project in Fin...Read More
The mining world has quickly embraced environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles and more companies are seeing the need to meet those priorities, even on the level of investment, said Michel Brutti, founder and president of Clear Skies Investment Management, at the Mining Investment Event of the North conference on June 21."On the 'E' side, we can see there are solutions out there to go...Read More
Once upon a time, President Reagan said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."Decades earlier, Aim?(C) C?(C)saire wrote a blistering screed against European colonialism that started with:A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.A civilization that chooses to cl...Read More
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Sonoro Gold CEO Ken Macleod joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share news the company has increased their Private Placement to 2.4...Read full newsRead More
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The alarm bells are starting to ring. Some of the more aggressive analysts have already predicted doomsday. And to be fair, they aren't exactly wrong. This past month alone, we've seen a few of the hallmark signs of an impending recession. Most alarmingly, the industrial metals sector is in a nosedive. Materials like copper and nickel, respected bellwethers of the overall economy, are on track...Read More
EDM Resources (TSXV: EDM) has entered into a definitive credit agreement with Swiss base metals trading company IXM for US$24 million in debt financing to advance the company's Scotia mine towards commercial production.Scotia is a fully owned and permitted zinc-lead operation consisting of a mine and mill that last operated in 2009. The open-pit mine and related facilities are located near Halifa...Read More
Wyloo Metals made a big splash last year with its battle against Australian behemoth BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) for control of Ring of Fire junior Noront Resources. The private, Western Australia-based company, owned by Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest's Tattarang investment group, outlined its vision for Noront's high-grade nickel-copper-PGM Eagle's Nest project early on. The miner...Read More
Geoscience BC has completed a new project that would make data for hundreds more mineral exploration and development reports in British Columbia searchable by location for the first time.National Instrument 43-101 technical reports contain comprehensive geoscience information on prospective mineral properties and are available from the Canadian Securities Administrators' (CSA) SEDAR website. Howev...Read More
Canada's Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) expects to declare an initial mineral resource for its recently acquired Great Bear gold project in Red Lake, Ont., as part of its 2022 year-end results, it said in an update.The gold miner, which paid $1.8 billion in cash and shares for Great Bear in a deal that closed in late February, said the estimate predominantly in the inferred resource category, wi...Read More
As demand for critical minerals increases in the society-wide push for decarbonization, the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and China's control over critical minerals have demonstrated how important it is to develop secure mineral supply chains in North America.That emerging supply chain was among the many issues discussed in the "Trends in Energy Metals: Net-zero carbon emissions...Read More