Over the past decade, the development of the Pebble mine has come under intense scrutiny in Alaska due to its potential environmental impact. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons/AlaskaTrekker) Northern Dynasty Minerals' (TSX: NDM) US-based subsidiary Pebble Limited Partnership is welcoming a pending White House review of its controversial copper-gold project and the Final Environmental Impact Statement (E...Read More
Stock image. Management appointments announced this week include:Carmen Amezquita has been named CFO of Amerigo Resources.Barrick Gold has announced appointments to its exploration team: Aoife McGrath has been named VP of exploration for Africa and Middle East and Leandro Sastre is now VP of exploration for Latin America and Asia Pacific.Anthony Paterson has been appointed CEO and preside...Read More
MINING.COM MINUTE is a roundup of the biggest stories from the global mining and metals industry.This week's top stories:- Glencore posts $2.6 billion loss, scraps dividend - Read more- Gold price breaks new record - Read more- Barrick, Skeena reach final deal on Eskay Creek project - Read more- Peabody biggest loss follows writedown of top US coal mine - Read moreClick here for last week's rou...Read More
The company has received commitments from undisclosed investors for $50 million in new shares priced at 24c each, with a share purchase plan to be initiated for another $5 million.Read More
Week 30 (31/07/2020-06/08/2020) Company news Americas Cameco plans to restart the Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan in September.Read More
It was a perfect summer day - 80 degrees, mostly sunny, and a light breeze blowing across the water.Baltimore's Inner Harbor should have been bustling with tourists and employees of local businesses. Joggers and bikers should have been crowding the sidewalks. Panhandlers should have been asking me for money. Car horns should have been blaring in the distance. And there should have been guys on the...Read More
Pretium Resources' (TSX: PVG; NYSE: PVG) Brucejack underground mine, 65 km north of Stewart, B.C., produced 90,419 oz. gold in the second quarter, close to the previous year's figure of 90,761 oz., in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic.The company, which has not seen any significant interruptions so far from the pandemic, reiterated its production guidance issued in February of 325,000-365,000 oz. gol...Read More
Australian iron ore major Fortescue Metals Group (ASX: FMG) said today it would reevaluate an expansion plan at one of its iron ore mines in the Pilbara region, after an Indigenous group said the project threatened sacred sites, including a 60,000-year-old rock shelter.Fortescue's decision comes after fellow miner Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO), the number one iron ore producer, blew up a 46,000-...Read More
U.S. miner Albemarle (NYSE: ALB), the world's top lithium producer, said this week it would temporarily shut two operations due to weaker demand for the commodity used in batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs).The decision affects portions of the Silver Peak lithium mine in Nevada and Kings Mountain lithium hydroxide production facility in North Carolina starting this September.The company p...Read More
The Federal Reserve has two objectives: 1) promote employment and 2) stabilize prices.Well in the next few weeks, it's going to abandon the second. And gold is going to surge to unforetold heights as a result. This isn't just some wild prediction. It's coming from the Fed itself. You see, all the way back in November 2018, the central bank announced a broad review of the strategy, tools, and m...Read More
The AI-Powered Search Engine Promises to Bolster Analog Gold's Growth in 'Undervalued' Mining MarketFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. and NASHVILLE, Tenn., Au...Read full newsRead More
Northstar Gold Corp. provides the following exploration update foRead full newsRead More
Steppe Gold Ltd. is pleased to announce that the previously annouRead full newsRead More
Gold79 Mines (TSXV:AUU) has launched its campaign on the Investing News Network's resource channel.Read full newsRead More
Diego Parrilla, portfolio manager and author of "The Anti-Bubbles", likens portfolio construction to putting a soccer team on the field. In the coming decade he sees equities as being the strikers and options as being the goal-keeper. On Real Vision today, he explains his approach which includes using options to get defensive exposure to assets like Treasuries. He believes the 60/40 balanced pa...Read More
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SUDBURY - The Ontario government is providing more than $1 million to help two companies in Sudbury develop new treatments, devices and technologies to support the health sciences sector. The funding will be delivered through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) and create eight new jobs."Supporting the health sciences sector across Northern Ontario is an important part of our go...Read More
Vancouver, BC - Summa Silver Corp ("Summa Silver" or the "Company") (CSE: SSVR, Frankfurt: 48X) is pleased to announce that it has closed the non-brokered private placement financing of units of the Company (the "Units") at a price of $1.00 per Unit (the "Offering") for gross proceeds of $8,000,000. Participation in the Offering included a lead order of $5,000,000 from Mr. Eric Sprott.Each Unit...Read More
Nigeria hopes changes it has made to gold mining regulation will earn the government $500 million a year in royalties and taxes and create 250,000 jobs, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday.Read full newsRead More
The gold price broke past US$2,000 on Tuesday, an important psychological and monetary threshold for the metal.Read full newsRead More