Digging Deep

End of Banks in Canada?

September 16, 2024

Defense Metals in the Media

February 16, 2024

Our 2024 Predictions, Part 2

January 11, 2024

Our 2024 Predictions, Part 1

January 02, 2023

Can Gold Hit $3,000 in 2024?

29 December, 2023

Will Bitcoin ETFs Kill Gold?

November 21, 2023

What's Next for Gold?

06 June, 2023

Platinum and Palladium

February 2022

Transition to Production

June 15, 2021

Silver Suppression?!

February 02, 2021

Gold: Year in Review 2020, and 2021 Outlook

January 04, 2021

Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

AbraPlata: CMR's full analysis of an Argentina focussed gold and silver junior

May 2020

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

Days after suspending operations, Kinross mulls a 'full exit' from Russia

March 07, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) may permanently exit from Russia after operating in the country for about 25 years, a BMO metals and mining analyst said, as the nation continues to attack Ukraine. On Mar. 2, Kinross announced that it would suspend its Russian operations following Western sanctions. However, in a research note to clients on Mar. 6, BMO analyst Jackie Przybylowski stated that the...Read More

Executives decline to lead

February 17, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

Mining Journal and MiningNews.Net Copper Outlook ReportSPONSOREDEro Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperFor C3 Metals, X marks the spotSPONSOREDc3 metalsGreat Panther, great prospectsSPONSOREDgreat pantherThe latest Mining Journal Global Leadership Report, published in September, highlighted five priorities among the occupants of the industry's executive suites.Read More

JV Article: Tier One Silver hits bonanza-grade silver in first drill program at Curibaya in Peru

March 07, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Canadian explorer Tier One Silver (TSXV: TSLVF; US-OTC: TSLVF) believes it is in the early stages of a new discovery in Peru.The Vancouver-headquartered junior recently completed the first ever drill program on its 100%-owned Curibaya silver-gold project in southwest Peru, about 48 km northeast of the provincial capital Tacna, close to the border with Chile.The drilling comprised 16 holes (5,347...Read More

All eyes on costs as BHP and the other big boys report

February 14, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

Mining Journal and MiningNews.Net Copper Outlook ReportSPONSOREDEro Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperFor C3 Metals, X marks the spotSPONSOREDc3 metalsGreat Panther, great prospectsSPONSOREDgreat pantherThe sky-high price for lithium and near-record prices for aluminium, tin, copper and a range of other minerals and metals is evidence of the boom conditions develop...Read More

How much could battery recycling actually aid cobalt, lithium supply shortages?

March 07, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

A recent report by IDTechEx estimates that less than 8% of the global cobalt demand and 6% of the lithium demand will be supplied by recycled Li-ion batteries by 2030.According to the market analyst, a combined total of over 180,000 tonnes of lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese could be recovered by 2030 through Li-ion recycling, a value which is forecast to grow by approximately 10 times by 20...Read More

Brazil's Bolsanaro backs legalization of mining in Indigenous lands amidst Russia invasion

March 04, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has reiterated the need to allow mining in the nation's Indigenous territories to strengthen food security, as he expects Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine to increase the price of potassium.The far-right leader said that it was important for the country to not depend on foreign nations for commodities available in abundance in Brazil."With the Russia/Ukraine...Read More

GMS: Invest in exploration and skilled labour to tackle critical metals supply chain, says World Bank mining expert

March 04, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

From heading towards a more "diversified and less concentrated" supply chain of critical metals to the need for skilled people in the global mining industry, World Bank mining specialist Martin Lokanc believes that the world needs to take a number of crucial steps to successfully transition away from fossil fuels and meet its net-zero goals. Speaking at The Northern Miner's first Global Mining...Read More

Mining faces dire cyclical threat

February 10, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

Mining Journal and MiningNews.Net Copper Outlook ReportSPONSOREDEro Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperFor C3 Metals, X marks the spotSPONSOREDc3 metalsGreat Panther, great prospectsSPONSOREDgreat pantherFor the past 60 years, all the most significant metal price cycles have been tied to swings in monetary conditions.Read More

Buenaventura to kick off San Gabriel gold mine construction in 2023

March 04, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Buenaventura (NYSE: BVN), Peru's largest publicly traded precious metals miner, will begin construction on its delayed San Gabriel gold-silver project in the country's southern region of Moquegua in 2023.The company had planned to start site works at the US$328 million project in the second half of 2021 but had to postpone the move and focus on reducing debt first.The needed cash injection came...Read More

Alrosa suspends Natural Diamond Council membership

March 04, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Russia's Alrosa (MCX: ALRS), the world's top diamond miner by output, suspended on Friday its membership in the Natural Diamond Council (NDC), a market alliance of the world's leading producers of precious stones.The move comes only a day after the company, which was placed in the U.S. sanctions list, decided to step down from its position as vice chair of the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC),...Read More

Russia-Ukraine tension may give rise to a new commodity world order

March 03, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has the potential to establish a new commodity world order that tilts reliable supply toward North America, Bloomberg Intelligence says in a research note.Analyst Mike McGlone argues that should oil and gas prices continue to spike amid the increased geopolitical tension, it could very well be the catalyst for a global recession."The conflict is unique, but in 2008,...Read More

Kinross suspends Russian operations

March 03, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) has announced overnight that it will suspend all development work at its Udinsk gold project in Russia as international sanctions and legal restrictions intensify due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.The company says it will also suspend operations at its Kupol mine, focusing on the safety and well-being of its more than 2,000 employees and recognizing its obligatio...Read More

Argonaut Gold closes $51.8M bought deal to fund exploration

March 03, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR) has completed a bought deal private placement of 19.78 million flow-through common shares to raise total proceeds of $51.84 million.This amount includes the full exercise of an over-allotment option to purchase an additional 2.58 million shares (15% of the original amount, as announced in its press release on Feb. 14).The placement was conducted per the terms of an agree...Read More

McEwen Mining closes $19M flow-through financing to double Ontario gold output

March 03, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX) closed its offering of 14.5 million flow-through common shares priced at $1.325 each for total gross proceeds of $19.2 million. The sole bookrunner for the offering was Canto Fitzgerald Canada, and PearTree Canada structured the flow-through donation placement.The company will use the proceeds for qualifying Canadian exploration expenditures on its Ontario prope...Read More

Deep-South says Namibia Ministry misses deadline to defend licence refusal

March 03, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Deep-South Resources (TSXV: DSM) seems to have has scored a win in its battle to renew the company's prospecting licence for the Haib copper project in Namibia, after the country's mining and energy ministry missed a deadline to file the permit's refusal. Minister Tom Alweendo declined to renew Deep-South's licence in June last year, citing the Vancouver-based company's inability to advance to a...Read More

The Northern Miner appoints Alisha Hiyate new Editor-in-Chief

March 03, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

As George Harrison once sang: "All Things must pass"... and that includes incredible journalistic and editorial tenures. With that thought in mind, I announce to you all that Trish Saywell is retiring from our team on March 15. Before joining The Northern Miner, Trish worked in Asia for several publications, including The Hong Kong Standard, Asiaweek, and the Far Eastern Economic Review...Read More

The Northern Miner Podcast - episode 280:'Reimagine mining to improve people's lives', ft CEO Mark Cutifani at the Global Mining Symposium

March 01, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

This week's episode features Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani in conversation with Northern Miner senior reporter Henry Lazenby at the Global Mining Symposium. Mark discusses the outlook for commodities (including diamonds and copper), how the company is addressing ESG, and what message the mining industry should broadcast about itself to the rest of the world.All this and more with host Adrian Po...Read More

The Northern Miner Podcast - episode 279: The psychology of 'belonging' in the workplace, ft Edumine panellist and strategist Andrea Carter

February 22, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

This week's episode features Master of Industrial and Organizational Psychology candidate at Adler University Andrea Carter, who discusses the importance of 'belonging' in the workplace and how genderism and racism, among other isms, are more common than ever, despite the common perception that things are improving. Andrea also discusses how social ostracism can have considerable health impacts, a...Read More

The Northern Miner Podcast - episode 278: How to raise the profile of a mining company, ft Los Andes Copper president and CEO R. Michael Jones

February 15, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

This week's episode features Los Andes Copper CEO R. Michael Jones on why he shifted his focus to copper, what it's like to work in Chile, and common strategies to increase the profile of a mining company. He also discusses his outlook on copper and the process to list on the TSX.All this and more with host Adrian Pocobelli.This week's CEO Spotlight is sponsored by Manifest Climate, featuring co...Read More

Caravel Minerals unearths extensive copper potential in WA

February 07, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

It takes a team effort to recognise and deliver on the huge potential of a large-scale, underexplored region, but that is exactly what the ASX-listed copper exploration and development company Caravel Minerals is doing in Western Australia's Wheatbelt region at its namesake project.The Caravel copper project is an undeveloped conventional open-pit mining and processing project with a mineral resou...Read More

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