Sun Summit Minerals (TSXV: SMN; US-OTC: SMREF) says 2023 could be a decisive year for the company's Buck gold/silver/zinc project in north-central British Columbia. A set of 3,000 metres of outstanding drill results will shed light on how large the emerging epithermal system is, and company president Sharyn Alexander says an initial resource could be ready before the year is out."With the results...Read More

Arctic Canadian Diamond, operator of the Ekati mine in the Northwest Territories, is on track to expand revenue by more than half as it aims to be the only miner using a remote underwater vehicle with a cutting drum. The Calgary-based unlisted company will likely record 2022 income of about $500 million, an increase of more than 60% from the previous year's 11 months of operations, because of h...Read More

Patriot Battery Metals (TSXV: PMET; ASX: PMT; OTCQX: PMETF) is starting one of Quebec's largest winter lithium drilling programs at its Corvette property near James Bay as it prepares an initial resource estimate for the end of June. The Vancouver-based company plans to use five rigs to drill 20,000 metres in the period to April, it said in a news release on Thursday. It wants to lengthen a 2.2-...Read More

Copper Mountain Mining (TSX: CMMC; ASX: C6C) said it reopened its mine in southern British Columbia this week following a Dec. 27 ransomware attack that left deliveries unaffected.The Vancouver-based company restarted the primary crusher at its mine near Princeton about 300 km east of Vancouver on Jan. 1 and resumed operations at the mill "shortly thereafter," Copper Mountain said in a news releas...Read More

From Russia's invasion of Ukraine to stubbornly high inflation, and an unrelenting focus on reshoring critical minerals supply chains, last year was full of twists and turns for miners. Were you paying attention? Test your mining knowledge with The Northern Miner's 2022 mining news quiz.Read More

Caledonia Mining (LSE: CMCL) has added to its portfolio one of Zimbabwe's biggest gold mining projects after completing the acquisition of Bilboes Gold, owner of the namesake asset, the U.K.-based miner said in a news release Friday.The shares plus royalty transaction, announced last year, will help the company more than double its annual output, potentially making it Zimbabwe's top gold miner. T...Read More

The incredible meltdown of FTX and the Bernie Madoff scam long before should tell us a thing or two about how much the government will protect us against scams. It does not and will not.Too often, government itself is part of that scam.That certainly seems true in the above two cases. And perhaps this is why Sam Bankman-Fried is being treated with kid gloves, with his $250 million bail not involvi...Read More

While the broader market tanked last year, a small group of companies notched double-digit gains. I'm talking about defense contractors. And you can see for yourself how they did:Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) jumped 35%.Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) shot 40% higher.General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) rose 19.25%.Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) climbed 17%. Compare that with a 9% drop for the Dow and a 2...Read More

"The miners are trading at premium valuations heading into a tricky year on multiple fronts," the bank said in December. "We would be incrementally cautious.Read More

Regulus and Nuton will jointly undertake copper sulphide leach testing utilising Nuton's copper sulphide leach technologies with samples from its AntaKori copper-gold project in Cajamarca.Read More

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The bill was modified in October 2022 to apply a flat-rate ad valorem, or revenue-based, tax of 1% for large-scale copper mining whose exploitation exceeds 50,000tpa, thus excluding medium-sizedRead More

With the parties unable to agree on new contract terms by a 14 December 2022 deadline imposed by the government, a week later the government ordered the company to place the operation on care onRead More

(IDEX Online) - Watch and jewelry sales in the US for November were down 3.8 per cent year-on-year. October's figure, initially reported as a fall of 1.9 per cent, has since been revised down, based on actual through-the-till transactions rather than estimates, to 3.4 per cent, according to the latest figures from the Department of Commerce. Likewise September has been revised from a 1.3...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Underground mining for sapphires has resumed in Montana, USA, after four decades.The long-dormant Yogo Mine, close to the town of Utica, is being revived. And after two years of surface mining, operators Yogold USA are now going underground.They've dug a 3,000ft tunnel and are extracting up to 100 tons of ore today, in search of Yogo sapphires which range in color from deep co...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Sales of jewelry in Hong Kong fell last November, according to newly-released figures.Total retail sales fell year-on-year by 4.2 per cent. The figure for jewelry, watches, clocks, and valuable gifts was almost double that, at 8.3 per cent (The Census and Statistics Department does not provide a more detailed breakdown). Total sales were $372m.The sectors that fared worse were comm...Read More

(IDEX Online) - 2022 proved to be a year of highs and lows, as the Index hit its highest point in over a decade, then nose-dived to close the year down 7.5 per cent overall (from 142.86 in January to 132.15 in December).Even through the pandemic, aside from the very early months of 2020, the Index was climbing, and as lockdowns and travel restrictions were eased, it surged as never befor...Read More

The U.K. no longer springs to mind as a mining giant, but we used to have a dominant role in the global industry. The extraction of non-ferrous metals on these islands, particularly copper and tin, dates back to before 2000 BC, and surface workings for coal and iron ore were widespread after the beginning of the Iron Age around 750 BC. This mineral wealth was one of the things that attracted the a...Read More

Looking back on the past two years since he took the reins as CEO of Dolly Varden Silver (TSXV: DV), Shawn Khunkhun points to a critical acquisition the company made in December 2021 as being the lynchpin to the company's recent exploration and fundraising success.The British Columbia-focused explorer has district-scale holdings, the Kitsault Valley project, in the southern leg of the province's s...Read More

Royal Gold (NASDAQ: RGLD) has further consolidated its royalty position at the world-class Cortez gold complex in Nevada, which has been operating since 1969 and produced roughly 27 million oz. of gold to date.On Thursday, the company announced it has acquired two portions of a gross smelter return royalty that together cover a 1,630-sq.-km area including the Cortez mine operation and the entirety...Read More