Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) has issued a statement in response to claims of alleged rights abuses in Tanzania.Twenty-one Tanzanian nationals filed a lawsuit in Ontario Supreme Court on Nov. 21 against Barrick for alleged human rights violations at the company's North Mara gold mine in Tanzania.It is the first time the Canadian gold giant has faced legal action in its home country for all...Read More
Maple Gold Mines (TSXV: MGM) reported complete assay results for four drill holes and partial assay results for five additional drill holes from its 100% controlled Eagle mine property in Quebec. The holes were drilled in an area northwest of the past-producing Eagle mine that the company had previously identified as a potential southern splay of the main mine horizon. The new results confirm the...Read More
Probe Metals (CVE: PRB) has drilled the highest-grade core?EUR?yet at its Val-d'Or East project's Monique deposit in Quebec as it prepares to expand its mineral resource estimate next month. Expansion drill hole MO-22-475 cut 22.9 metres grading 4.9 grams gold per tonne cut and 19.2 grams gold uncut (with a 100 grams per tonne cap) from 22.6 metres down hole, Probe said in a news release on Tuesd...Read More
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) said on Tuesday it is actively searching for lithium assets as its expects prices for the metal used in the making of batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs) to remain high for a "long period of time." The company had to shelve its proposed US$2.4 billion Jadar lithium mine in Serbia early this year after the government revoked the project's licences...Read More
The mining industry shows a lack of focus on gender and diversity in their environmental, social and governance strategies, a recent report by Stratum International and Digbee has found.Based on a survey of global mining sector decision-makers, the study deems "concerning" such an overlook in an industry that "needs to change the perception that mining is a male-only environment."According to the...Read More
Gold Fields' (JSE, NYSE: GFI) chief executive officer Chris Griffith is stepping down on Dec. 31, only a month after the company's failed attempt to take over Canada's Yamana Gold (TSX: YR; NYSE: AUY).Griffith, 57, was appointed CEO of the South African gold miner in April 2021, taking over from Nick Holland, who retired after 13 years. Griffith had previously held the top job at Anglo American P...Read More
Shares in Ecuador-focused SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG) dropped on Monday more than 7% after revealing it had completed a US$36-million capital raise with the participation of new investors, including Jiangxi Copper Investing.The company, which saw its chief executive and managing director of less than a year leave last month, is said to be at the centre of a bidding war between Jiangxi, China's...Read More
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has officially shown its hand. Mandiant, a U.S. cybersecurity firm, recently uncovered a shockingly desperate cyberattack against a single private company.A series of fake social media profiles, typically called "bots," made some bizarre posts. According to Mandiant's report, these posts all came from within CCP-friendly IP addresses.Hilariously pseudo-American n...Read More
France-based I-Pulse was founded by mining entrepreneur Robert Friedland and plasma physicist and electrical engineer Laurent Frescaline in 2005.Read More
In this video, Cathie Wood shares her views on SBF's plan to destroy Bitcoin. And how that led to a Huge Crash. She also warns ...Read More
Share this article VANCOUVER - TRX Gold Corp. [TNX-TSX; TRX-NYSE American] reported positive assay results from its 19-hole metallurgical variability sampling program on the Buckreef gold main zone in Tanzania. The Buckreef Project comprises five prospects, namely Buckreef, Bingwa, Tembo, Eastern Porphyry and Buziba.The results are positive and significant for the company as they continue to demo...Read More
14 years.That's all it'll take until the majority of states in the U.S. legalize psychedelics.This, according to a new analysis published in the American Medical Association. As reported in Marijuana Moment, the analysis showed that half of the states in the U.S. have considered a total of 74 psychedelics bills, including 69 legislative proposals and five ballot measures. Ten bills were enacted a...Read More
I'm not talking about Horizon Worlds, Mark Zuckerberg's personal vanity project. Kudos to him for jumping in the deep end early, but so far the execution has left me feeling somewhere between disappointed and terrified.Though I admit the avatars did manage to capture their creator's signature look, the newest version is still not as lifelike as I was expecting from such a hyped-up rollout. This i...Read More
Canada has joined the launch of the new Sustainable Critical Minerals Alliance that seeks to pursue environmentally-sound and responsible mining, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced Monday.Speaking at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Wilkinson said Alliance members will commit to developing and sourcing critical minerals through a "nature-positive...Read More
It was unclear on Monday if protesters in Peru would abandon planned strikes and disruptions around mines run by Glencore (LSE: GLEN) and China-controlled MMG after new President Dina Boluarte promised elections two years early in 2024. Boluarte announced the initiative after two protesters died on Sunday in widespread unrest following the Dec. 7 sacking of former President Pedro Castillo on char...Read More
When Dan Noone first visited Guyana in 2004, the capital Georgetown was a "sleepy place," says the geologist and CEO of G2 Goldfields (TSXV: GTWO). "There weren't many cars on the road." As recently as 2010, Guyana was ranked the second-poorest nation in the Caribbean, after Haiti. Now, after a string of offshore oil discoveries off Guyana's coast by Exxon Mobil over the last seven years, Georget...Read More
Ascot Resources (TSX: AOT; US-OTC: AOTVF) has entered into non-binding letters of intent for roughly $200 million in project financing for construction of the Premier gold project, in northwestern British Columbia. The proposed financing package will consist of a US$110 million gold and silver streaming agreement with Sprott Resource Streaming and Royalty and/or its affiliates and an equity inves...Read More
Blue Sky Uranium?EUR?(TSXV: BSK; US-OTC: BKUCF), a Vancouver-based uranium and vanadium explorer with 4,000 sq. km of prospective tenements in Argentina's Patagonia region, expects to update the preliminary economic assessment for its Ivana deposit after completing an enhanced regional exploration drilling program next year. Despite a difficult market for capital raising, Blue Sky announced on De...Read More
The post-pandemic period represents "the best diamond market in the better part of a decade," Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC) president and CEO Eira Thomas told delegates at The Northern Miner's the recent Canadian Mining Symposium in London, U.K.In an interview with The Northern Miner podcast host Adrian Pocobelli, Thomas explained the rationale of investing in a space that gives exposure to both mined...Read More
Our TNM Drill Down features highlights of the top gold assays of the past week. Drill holes are ranked by g?EUR?old grade x width, as identified by our sister company Mining Intelligence.Projects in North America's three countries led drilling results for the period of Dec. 2-9. Drilling at Torex Gold Resources' (TSX: TXG) El Lim??n mine in southwest Mexico topped the chart, followed by Ascot Res...Read More