Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) is investing $2.9 million in a new plant at its Kennecott copper mine in Utah to recover tellurium, a critical mineral used to make solar panels.The plant will recover tellurium from waste already being produced as a result of the copper smelting process. It will have capacity to produce roughly 20 tonnes of tellurium per year, with production beginning in the fourt...Read More
One of the key themes that emerged from the 30th BMO Global Metals & Mining conference last week was the desire among many gold and base metal companies to increase their exposure to copper. The investment bank's fireside chats with CEOs and presentations were not open to the media, but according to highlights BMO released each day, the outlook for copper and its importance to the green energy tra...Read More
The winners of the Young Mining Professionals (YMP) awards this year are Maggie Layman of Osisko Development (TSXV: ODV) and Matthew Fenton of privately held Magris Resources.The YMP awards, presented in association with The Northern Miner, recognize two mining professionals under forty who have demonstrated exceptional leadership skills and innovative thinking and provided value to their companie...Read More
This past year has been a "challenging but exciting time" for Bluestone Resources (TSXV: BSR; US-OTC; BBSRF), says the company's CEO Jack Lundin, as the Canadian junior progressed its Cerro Blanco gold project in southeast Guatemala, about 160 km southeast of Guatemala City.Appointed just over a year ago, Lundin said that initially "it felt like drinking through a fire hose" given the abundance...Read More
Sibanye-Stillwater (NYSE: SBGL) said today that South Africa's top gold miners should merge and create a rival to the world's largest producers, Newmont (TSX: NGT; NYSE: NEM) and Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD), or risk being acquiCEO Neal Froneman said he believed that combining his company with Gold Fields (NYSE: GFI) and AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) would be in South Africa's national inter...Read More
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.82% to 31,496.30 and the S&P 500 gained 0.81% to finish the trading week at 3,841.94. Spot gold dropped US$35.50 per oz. to US$1,700.10.Gold Fields rose 14.4% to US$9.37. The company announced that the National Energy Regulator of South Africa had approved its electricity generation licence, which will allow Gold Fields to build a 40 megawatt solar power pla...Read More
The S&P/TSX Composite Index advanced 1.80% to 18,381.00. The S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index climbed 1.21% to 165.45, and the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index rose 1.16% to 106.23. Spot gold fell US$35.50 per oz. to US$1,700.10 and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index increased 4.07% to 280.38.Suncor Energy rose $2.55 to $27.82 per share. The company announced it priced an offering of US$750 million in senio...Read More
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index dropped 9.83% to 918.36. Spot gold fell US$35.50 per oz. to US$1,700.10.Shares of New Found Gold climbed 48 ? to $3.93. The company announced assay results from its 100%-owned Queensway project, 15 km west of Gander, Newfoundland. An interval drilled about 125 metres down plunge to the south of previously reported intervals in the Keats Zone, doubled the known e...Read More
Endurance Gold Corporation (EDG -- TSX.V) is a project generator, focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of highly prospective North American mineral properties, with the potential to develop world-class deposits. Endurance Gold owns two drill-ready, gold exploration projects in top-ranked jurisdictions: the fully permitted, high-grade Reliance Gold Project, located in the histori...Read More
Tony Giardini, President and CEO of Trilogy Metals, provides an update on the company's activities during a webinar moderated ...Read More
Gold Mountain Mining (TSXV:GMTN) CEO Kevin Smith joined the Investing News Network at #PDAC2021 to discuss his ...Read More
Is it time to bury the bullion bull market? We assess that issue as well as what areas might offer opportunity in a pro-inflationary environment. Is the Fed burying bullion? (Photo by Daniel Lincoln)Meanwhile, for all those predicting that yield curve control is coming to the United States, not so fast. Finally, insiders at an established firm have been thinking outside the box. We cover these ho...Read More
In northern Nevada, the gold mining industry has dominated for decades. Now Nevada lawmakers want to tap into that vein of wealth to ease the pandemic-induced budget crunch.Read full newsRead More
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In northern Nevada, the gold mining industry has dominated for decades. Now Nevada lawmakers want to tap into that vein of wealth to ease the pandemic-induced budget crunch.Read full newsRead More
Encompassing an area the size of Europe, the territories that make up Canada's North have long known the importance of the natural resources sector, most especially mining, as a foundation of their economies. The three territories - Yukon, Northwest Territories (NWT) and Nunavut - are noted sources of precious metals, diamonds, base metals and rare earth elements (REEs), among others. And given th...Read More
Trillion Energy offers investors two genuine opportunities to create billions of dollars of market cap within two years explains CEO ...Read More
In northern Nevada, the gold mining industry has dominated for decades. Now Nevada lawmakers want to tap into that vein of wealth to ease the pandemic-induced budget crunch.Read full newsRead More