The past few days have seen a flurry of activity in the lithium space, with four Canadian and Australian firms announcing acquisitions and earn ins.Li3 Lithium (TSXV: LILI) announced Wednesday that its 50%-owned Li3 Resources has earned a 50% interest in the Mutare lithium project in eastern Zimbabwe through its US$250,000 funding of initial exploration at the site.Li3 Resources has until Dec. 31...Read More

Solaris Resources (TSX: SLS; US-OTC: SLSSF) has signed an investment contract with the government of Ecuador on its 100%-owned Warintza copper-gold project, which president and CEO Daniel Earle says "provides a foundation of certainty" and represents a "major milestone" for the company.The investment contract ratifies the Investment Protection Agreement announced in June and "significantly" de-ris...Read More

Nuton, a Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO; LSE: RIO; NASDAQ: RIO) venture that has developed innovative copper sulphide leach technologies, is taking a 16.5% stake in Regulus Resources (TSXV: REG; US-OTC: RGLSF) for US$15 million.Nuton's technologies have the potential to process arsenic-bearing copper sulphides with a lower carbon footprint and less impact on water resources than traditional concentrator proc...Read More

Canada has rejected Glencore's (LSE: GLEN) proposed open-pit Sukunka coal mine project near Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia on environmental grounds.The coal mine, 55 km south of Chetwynd and 40 km west of Tumbler Ridge, would have produced three million tonnes of hard coking coal per year.The metallurgical coal mine would have had a mine life of up to 20 years, and a coal handling and processin...Read More

Argosy Minerals (ASX: AU) has produced battery quality lithium carbonate at its Rincon lithium project in Argentina's Salta province.The 99.76% lithium carbonate was produced as part of the commissioning phase of the 2,000 tonne per year lithium operation and the company says it plans to finish the ramp-up phase and achieve steady-state production by the end of the second quarter of fiscal 2023.Au...Read More

Fury Gold Mines (TSX: FURY, NYSE-AM: FURY) says drill results from its Percival prospect may expand the resources at its Eau Claire project near James Bay in Quebec.The Vancouver-based company drilled five step-out holes on the westerly down plunge of its "considerably under-explored" Percival target, where high-grade mineralization has been defined in a 500 metre by 100 metre surface footprint to...Read More

Australia-based Vital Metals (ASX: VML; US-OTCQB: VTMXF) says it is pivoting from completing the rare earths separation plant in Saskatoon to better align with its Norwegian offtake partner while the cost of the processing facility has doubled.The cost of the Saskatoon plant has been estimated at "over $20 million" as recently as Vital's Sept. 20 press release. It now says the amount spent to date...Read More

The stock market absorbed a vicious whaling today. Yet our central concern is not the stock market.Our central concern is rather the economists' war against economics. It is a war nearly all mainstream economic schools of thought wage.It is a war against savings... and prudence.The individual saver is not necessarily an agent of Satan, concedes the economist of Keynesian leanings. Under limited ci...Read More

"The company and its board of directors believe the price of its common shares from time to time to be not reflective of the underlying value of the company," Alamos Gold said. Read More

Share this article VANCOUVER - Dynacor Gold Mines Inc. [DNG-TSX} on Wednesday reported gold sales of US$15 million for November, 2022, a decrease of 15.3% or US$2.7 million compared to November, 2021.It attributed the decrease to the lower average gold price and lower quantities of bullion sold due to monthly inventory variations and reduced ore grade in comparison to year-ago levels.The average...Read More

The deal is expected to be finalised in the third quarter of 2023. It will see the two companies working together on their neighbouring projects in the Pastos Grandes basin in Argentina.Read More

Look beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipCypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corpCanada's NexGen eyes large-scale uranium productionSPONSOREDnexgen energyUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSORED"The company and its board of directors believe the price of its common shares...Read More

Cypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corpCanada's NexGen eyes large-scale uranium productionSPONSOREDnexgen energyUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDThe subsidiary, ECM, has granted BMW the first right to purchase 100% of the lithium hydroxide from its Wolfsberg lithium project in Austria.Read More

Cypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corpCanada's NexGen eyes large-scale uranium productionSPONSOREDnexgen energyUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDThis, along with its stockpiled materials, mean that it can meet the requirements of existing customer contracts.Read More

The North American Leaders' Summit (NALS) comes as the three leading regional economies advance energy transition policies, at the heart of which is the supply of critical minerals not dependent onRead More

Cypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corpCanada's NexGen eyes large-scale uranium productionSPONSOREDnexgen energyUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDThat is why this month Mining Journal held interviews with some of the recipients of the WIM100 - 100 global inspirational women in mining 2022, as...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Leviev has unveiled two "Empress" diamond rings to honor British royals Camilla, Queen Consort and Catherine (Kate), Princess of Wales.It follows the US-based company's release of The Queen's Collection of 20 rings and other pieces in September, to mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth II."The Camilla" is a 6.4-carat emerald-cut gem with a $440,000 price tag. "The Catherine...Read More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers has appointed its first majority black-owned sightholder.Molefi Letsiki Diamonds was founded in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2005, as a custom-made jewelry manufacturing business.It will join the list of around 60 businesses authorized to attend 10 sights a year in Gaborone, Botswana, from 1 January 2023, to buy bulk parcels of rough diamonds. Mr Letsiki graduated f...Read More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers today said rough sales during its final cycle of the year were $410m (provisional).That takes its 2022 total to $6.12bn - an increase of just over a fifth (21 per cent) on 2021 sales of $4.82bn. Sales during Covid-hit 2020 were $2.79bn. In 2019, De Beers sold $4.04bn.Sales during cycle 10 were down slightly from cycle 9, with sales of $454m, but up on cycle 10 of 2021 ($33...Read More

The Bibiani and Chirano gold mines, situated 15 km apart in Ghana, are expected to produce a combined 400,000 oz. of gold next year, according to Asante Gold (CSE: ASE).Asante acquired the open pit Bibiani mine from Resolute Mining in August 2021, started open pit mining operations in February 2022, and after completing the refurbishment and commissioning of the process plant in June, poured first...Read More