We spoke with Rudi Fronk, Chairman and CEO of Seabridge Gold (TSX: SEA, NYSE: SA), a mineral exploration company, with one of the world's largest resource bases of gold, copper and silver. Seabridge's objective is to grow resource and reserve ownership per share. Seabridge holds a 100% interest in several North American gold projects. Seabridge's assets include the KSM and Iskut projects, located...Read More
Amex Exploration (TSXV: AMX) has reported the best drill intercepts to date from its copper-rich volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) QF Zone, highlighting the continued exploration upside of the company's flagship Perron project in Quebec's Abitibi region.The project, which hosts both gold and base metals discoveries, is located about 110 km north of Rouyn-Noranda.The Montreal-based explorer said...Read More
Based on positive drill results to date, South America-focused Reunion Gold (TSXV: RGD; US-OTC: RGDFF) is planning to accelerate drilling at its Oko West gold project in Guyana, and postpone the release of a first resource for the project to early 2023. The junior, which had originally planned to release the initial resource in the third quarter of 2022, now says that would be "premature." Inst...Read More
FPX Nickel (TSXV: FPX; OTC: FPOCF) has announced results of an internal engineering scoping study evaluating the production of nickel sulphate for the electric vehicle battery market from high-grade awaruite to be produced by the company's Baptiste nickel project in central British Columbia.This study highlights FPX's potential to develop the world's largest integrated nickel sulphate production f...Read More
Shares in Sabina Gold & Silver (TSX: SBB; OTCMKTS: SGSVF) jumped almost 4% on Wednesday after the Canadian miner formally committed to building the $610-million Goose gold mine in Nunavut.Construction at the site, located in the Back River gold district about 400 km south of Cambridge Bay in western Nunavut is planned to fully start in 2023, with first gold production expected in 2025.The Vancouve...Read More
Great Panther Mining (TSX: GPR; NYSE: GPL) has stopped trading in Toronto, and is subject to delisting both at home and in New York, after announcing it had filed for creditor protection.The cash-strapped Canadian miner warned on Tuesday that it would likely default on several material debtor agreements owing to liquidity constraints.Great Panther has also placed its Tucano gold and silver mine i...Read More
Cornish Lithium, the startup hoping to lead the development of an industry for the battery metal in Britain, has secured funding from the U.K.'s national innovation agency to build a demonstration scale processing plant at its Trelavour hard rock lithium project.The unspecified amount from Innovate UK through the Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF) will help Cornish Lithium build the hydrometallu...Read More
Uranium stocks are having a bit of a moment.The COVID-19 pandemic kicked off a rally in uranium prices that continues yesterday. As reported by major uranium producer Cameco (NYSE: CCJ), prices for the nuclear fuel have more than doubled since February 2020.Source: CamecoAs a result, shares of uranium miners like Cameco have ticked up over the past several months.The Global X Uranium ETF (NYSE: UR...Read More
FPX Nickel is a publicly-traded company in Canada (TSX-V: FPX) and the USA (OTCQB: FPOCF) with a focus on developing a ...Read More
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Share this articleVANCOUVER - O3 Mining Inc. [O111-TSXV] said Tuesday it has completed a NI 43-101 compliant pre-feasibility study (PFS) for its 100%-owned Marban Engineering gold project, which is located in the Val d'Or, Que., region.Marban is situated on the Malartic property, which is located about 12 kilometres from the Canadian Malarctic Mine and along the same structure as Wesdome Gold Mi...Read More
Share this article VANCOUVER - Contact Gold Corp. [C-TSXV] reported results from the final 16 drill holes completed at the Green Springs property on the southern end of Nevada's Cortez Trend, 20 km southeast of the Pan Mine operated by Calibre Mining Corp. [CXB-TSX], and 7 km immediately east of Calibre's Gold Rock Project.These final drill holes from the Spring 2022 exploration program are from...Read More
This week's episode features Northern Miner podcast host Adrian Pocobelli on mining stories from around the world, including new smelter shutdowns in Europe, warnings from Taiwan, Chinese gold buying, opportunities for Canada, joint ventures between mining companies and automakers, and a surprising amount of tragedies at mines. All this and more with host Adrian Pocobelli.Music Credits:"Rattl...Read More
A newly released assessment of global tailings management facilities (TMFs) data paints a jarring picture showing that relative to global mine production, there has been no improvement in the rate of significant failures, according to watchdog World Mine Tailings Failures (WMTF).According to data released for the first time on Tuesday, the rate was constant at 0.09 failures per billion tonnes of p...Read More
An investigation is underway at the Gahcho Ku?(C) Mine site in the Northwest Territories following the death of a worker in an accident there on Thursday.Inspectors from the territorial Workers' Safety and Compensation Commission (WSCC) are at the diamond mine and have started their investigation, WSCC communications officer Shannon Moore told The Northern Miner in an email.It was not known when o...Read More
Chile's national mining association SONAMI has welcomed the weekend rejection of the proposed new constitution for the world's number-one copper producer, sending lawmakers back to the drawing board to create a more inclusive document prioritizing the country's unity.Chileans overwhelmingly rejected the proposed new constitution during a referendum on Sept. 3, handing left-leaning President Gabrie...Read More
NioCorp Developments' (TSX: NB; US-OTC: NIOBF) demonstration-scale processing plant in Quebec has started processing ore samples from the company's Elk Creek critical minerals project in Nebraska. The plant is intended to demonstrate that the company can extract and separate rare earth elements from ore mined at the project, and that its simplified process for producing niobium, scandium and titan...Read More
Centerra Gold (TSX: CG; NYSE: CGAU) said on Tuesday it had named director Paul Wright as interim president and chief executive to replace Scott Perry, without providing reasons for the sudden change at the top.The company said Perry, who led Centerra for seven years, had also resigned as a director of the company and will not be nominated for election at its upcoming annual meeting by the end of S...Read More
O3 Mining (TSXV: OIII; US-OTC: OIIIF) has completed a prefeasibility study for its 100% owned Marban gold project, demonstrating its potential to become the next gold producer in the mining region of Val-d'Or, Que.The study showed robust project economics including a post-tax net present value (at 5% discount rate) of $463 million and post-tax unlevered internal rate of return of 23.2%. The report...Read More