Share this articleVANCOUVER - Guanajuato Silver Company Ltd. [GSVR-TSXV; GSVRF-OTCQX; VAQ-FSE] has discovered high-grade gold and silver material in an historical tailings area at the wholly owned El Cubo mine complex in Guanajuato, central Mexico.A 43,000-square metre, 1.0-1.5-metre thick layer of high-grade surface material has been identified from a retired tailings facility named Mastrantos IV...Read More
Copper is essential for the global shift towards decarbonization. However, declining ore quality, mine closures, and the absence of additional investment in new copper supplies could lead to a significant shortfall over the coming decades. Below are eight companies exploring and developing new sources of the red metal.ATEX RESOURCESThe LF230 rig drills hole ATXD-17 in the foreground with hole ATXD...Read More
Collective Mining (TSXV: CNL) has reported the discovery of a new copper-gold-silver deposit at its Guayabales project in Caldas, Colombia. Drillhole APC-1, the first diamond drill hole to test the Apollo deposit and among its eight porphyry-related targets, returned an intercept of 87.8 metres grading 0.88 gram gold per tonne, 61 grams silver and 0.39% copper starting from 291.60 metres, includi...Read More
De Beers, the world's top diamond producer by value, saw improved sales in its latest auction, despite moving into the summer, which are generally considered a weaker period for roughs demand.The Anglo American unit sold US$650 million of diamonds in its fifth sale of 2022, slightly up from US$604 million at the previous event this year, but higher than the US$477 million it sold this time last y...Read More
Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) has wrapped up mining activity at the 777 zinc-copper mine in Flin Flon, Man., after 18 years of steady production. Closure activities at the mine, where reserves have been mined out, have begun, and employees and equipment are transitioning to the company's operations in Snow Lake."777 was a state-of-the-art mine that represented the pinnacle of a century of...Read More
As part of its growth strategy in support of the onshoring of electric vehicle supply chains in North America, Electra Battery Materials (TSXV: ELBM; NASDAQ: ELBM) has begun preliminary discussions with the government of Quebec to build a new cobalt refinery in B?(C)cancour, Que., that will integrate with an emerging battery materials park in the province.Electra has been focused on creating Nor...Read More
Chilean state-owned copper producer Codelco, the world's largest, was hit on Wednesday by a nationwide strike against the miner's decision to close permanently an allegedly polluting smelter in the country's central zone.Unions demand that, instead of shutting down Ventanas, the company upgrades it. Codelco's decision followed an environmental incident that saw dozens of people fall ill, the mine...Read More
What is the deal with gold?That's not a set-up to a Seinfeld joke.Really, what's the deal?Inflation is soaring, the equity markets are in a bear market, a recession is looming, geopolitical instability remains elevated, and there are multiple currency wars waging.Markets are fearful, to say the least.The CNN Fear and Greed Index has been sitting in "extreme fear" territory for more than a month.Me...Read More
Newcore Gold's VP Exploration, Greg Smith, discusses the geology at our Enchi Gold Project during the PDAC 2022 conference ...Read More
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The designation by the Brazilian government will allow prioritised permitting for the scheme, Bravo Mining (formerly BPG Metals) said.Read More
This week's episode features the Quebec Thought Leadership panel at the Global Mining Symposium, featuring Tony Brisson, President and CEO, SOQUEM, Nathalie Camden, Associate Deputy Minister, Mines Minist??re de l'??nergie et des Ressources naturelles, Amyot Choquette, Senior Director Investments, Ressources Qu?(C)bec, and moderator Henry Lazenby, Senior Reporter at The Northern Miner. The panel d...Read More
NexGen Energy (TSX: NXE; NYSE: NXE) has advanced its 100% owned Rook uranium property by submitting the project's draft environmental impact statement (EIS) to Saskatchewan's Ministry of Environment and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. The submission includes letters of support for the project from Clearwater River Dene Nation (CRDN), Birch Narrows Dene Nation (BNDN), and Buffalo River De...Read More
Australia's Core Lithium (ASX: CXO), which counts electric vehicles giant Tesla among its future costumers, is planning to send its first shipment of the key battery material by the end of the year.The company's flagship Finniss lithium project, near Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, is expected to produce 175,000 tonnes of high-quality lithium spodumene concentrate a year.Tesla is expecte...Read More
B.C.-focused Surge Copper (TSXV: SURG; OTC: SRGXF) has provided its first resource update for its flagship Ootsa property, an advanced-stage exploration project located adjacent to Imperial Metals' (TSX: III) Huckleberry mine, since 2016.Pit-constrained measured and indicated resources at the project now total 439 million tonnes averaging 0.18% copper, 0.12 gram gold per tonne, 0.02% molybdenum an...Read More
A British subsidiary of Glencore (LSE: GLEN) formally pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the seven charges of bribery brought against the mining and commodities trader by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which relate to the firm's oil operations in Africa.Glencore Energy confessed paying $28 million in bribes to secure preferential access to oil, including increased cargoes, valuable grades of oil...Read More
In 2006, I hired a young dude who had just graduated from a large Midwestern university. I actually didn't personally hire him but gave the go-ahead to one of our editors who was looking for an assistant to groom (when the term "grooming" was still benign).Everyone told me he was "the smartest guy in the room." Like I said, he was fresh out of college and starting a career far from home. So he s...Read More