A motion for an official apology from the Ontario Legislative Assembly to former Ontario miners who were forced to inhale an aluminum and aluminum oxide powder linked to the development of Parkinson's disease was denied on Thursday, as the House asked for more time to "properly honour" the victims and their family members. In between 1943 to 1979, many Ontario miners were required to inhale the...Read More
Arizona Sonoran Copper (TSX: ASCU; US-OTC: ASCUF) has entered into a partnership with Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) focused on the latter's Nuton venture and a non-brokered private placement for total gross proceeds of up to $30.5 million. Nuton technologies offer a portfolio of proprietary copper leach related technologies and capability developed by Rio Tinto to deliver increased co...Read More
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Vale S.A. (NYSE: VALE) with making "false and misleading claims" about the safety of its dams ahead of the January 2019 collapse of its Brumadinho dam in Brazil, which killed 270 people, in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in New York, the SEC said. According to the SEC's complaint, the mining giant "manipulated multiple...Read More
Just one month after announcing a deal to acquire the Gasp?(C) Copper project, near Murdochville, Que., Osisko Metals (TSX-V: OM; US-OTC: OMZNF) has announced an initial inferred resource estimate for the Mount Copper deposit at the project using data from historical drilling completed between the 1960's and 2019. The company has also started a 30,000-metre drill program at the project, located...Read More
Champion Iron (TSX: CIA; OTC: CIAFF) has provided operational results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended Mar. 31. The company owns and operates the Bloom Lake mining complex, located on the south end of the Labrador Trough, approximately 13 km north of Fermont, Que., and 10 km north of the Mont Wright iron ore mining complex held by ArcelorMittal Mines Canada.The Bloom Lake Phase...Read More
Miner and commodities trader Glencore (LSE: GLEN) touted on Thursday prospects for its trading unit, saying it faces another strong year as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to drive up prices of most commodities the company mines and sells.Delivering results for the first three months of the year, the Swiss company said earnings from its marketing unit will "comfortably" top the highest end...Read More
There is a quote I've been reluctant to drop in the last two months even as I've been citing a whole lot of history that mirrors what we're seeing today in everything from arms to food to global logistics."We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same...Read More
Oil prices are anything but stable, no matter which pundit is telling you otherwise. We're barreling into a summer breakout for oil prices, and at this point all most people can do is sit back and watch it unfold. Most people.Unlike the rest of the herd, the veteran members of our investment community here at Energy and Capital have had much better luck trading oil's journey higher throughout th...Read More
Share this article VANCOUVER - AbraSilver Resources Corp. [ABRA-TSXV, ABBRF-0TC] shares rallied in active trading Wednesday after the company released drill results from an ongoing Phase 11 program at the company's wholly-owned Diablillos property in Salta Province, Argentina. The company also released a drilling update from a second Argentina project, known as La Coipita.Diablillos drilling high...Read More
When Rio Tinto's Diavik diamond mine closes in 2025, it's going to put a major dent in the finances of the Northwest Territories. The mine, now 100% owned by Rio Tinto after it acquired Dominion Diamond's 40% share last year, following Dominion's filing for insolvency protection in 2020, was Canada's second diamond mine, with production starting in 2003. Now, it is the first of the Northwest Terr...Read More
Defense Metals (TSXV: DEFN; OTC: DFMTF) has received results for the final five holes totalling 1,079 metres from the 29-hole (5,349 metres) diamond drill program completed during fall 2021 at its Wicheeda rare earth element (REE) deposit located near Prince George, B.C. These drill holes (WI21-57 through WI21-61) were collared from the two sites within the eastern area of the project.Resource def...Read More
Drill results from Fosterville South Exploration's (TSXV: FSX; US-OTC: FSXLF) initial 10-hole drill program at the Thompson Reef and the Prince of Wales Reef within the Reedy Creek target of its Providence project in Victoria state, Australia, have returned "strong gold grades," at shallow depths. Highlights from the drill results included 2 metres grading 174.42 grams gold per tonne starting f...Read More
Nearly all crucial battery metals will witness supply deficits in the next decade as mining projects struggle to come online, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence analysts have said. The research group that specializes in the electric vehicle supply chain believes that the world is already witnessing the "great raw material disconnect" impact the end user. "Lithium-ion battery cell prices are set...Read More
South Africa's Petra Diamonds (LSE: PDL) is exploring options to offload its loss-making Koffiefontein diamond mine in the home country, which is scheduled to reach the end of its life in 2025.The company's preference is to sell Koffiefontein, which had a gross resource base of 5.3 million carats as of June 30, 2021. These resources included 1.1 million carats in the indicated resource category ac...Read More
Several of the world's largest companies including Apple, Tesla and Intel may be using conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in their products as they rely on a certification scheme accused of helping "launder" irresponsibly mined metals.According to the latest report of Global Witness, an international non-profit that challenges power abuses, several firms that use the Int...Read More
In the 1970s, Nestl?(C) (SWX: NESN) was accused of causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of infants in third-world countries by proliferating the use of its baby formula products at the expense of natural breastfeeding.The report that sparked an international boycott of Nestl?(C) was titled "The Baby Killer."1974 report "The Baby Killer" and poster by Rachael RomeroThe boycott against Nestl?...Read More
This video shows Canadian gold production and Canada's share of total global production from 1895 to 2021, to put current levels ...Read More
Sep 29, 2020 Trilogy Metals Inc. has formed a joint venture with South32 Ltd, in which South32 contributed $145 million. Join this ...Read More