Southern Silver Exploration (TSXV: SSV) has released a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its 100%-owned Cerro Las Minitas silver project about 70 km northeast in Durango state, Mexico. The PEA puts gross revenues over 15 years of mining at US$3.7 billion.With an initial capital requirement of US$341 million for a large-scale, underground mine, the study puts the after-tax net present value...Read More
New Found Gold (TSXV: NFG; NYSEA: NFGC) announced plans last week to launch an at-the-market equity offering to raise up to $130 million for exploration at two, wholly owned gold projects in Newfoundland.The company has a 400,000-metre drill program underway at the Queensway project 15 km west of Gander, N.L. It also anticipates updating the resource estimate at Lucky Strike east of Kirkland Lake,...Read More
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are coming fast, and you need to be prepared for them because they'll mark a major victory in the war against cash - and against your personal privacy.You'll see why today.As the name implies, central bank digital currencies are digital, existing exclusively in electronic form. They're not physical at all. Central banks would control them.But it’s impo...Read More
"Quantum computers are tools of destruction, not creation."Those are the words of Alexander Lvovsky, a world-renowned physicist working for the University of Calgary in Canada.I'll admit he's being a bit of a downer, but the professor is correct. Quantum computers truly have the potential to collapse civilization as we know it. Think about it for a minute: The integrity of all data on Earth...Read More
Share this articleVANCOUVER - Hemlo Explorers Inc. [HMLO-TSXV] shares rallied Monday after the company said it has signed a definitive agreement that gives Barrick Gold Corp. [ABX-TSX, GOLD-NYSE] the right to earn a 80% in interest in the company's Pic project in northwestern Ontario.The company said the gold mining major has also agreed to subscribe for, on a private placement basis, 1.84 milli...Read More
North Gilbey's a Gascoyne game-changerSPONSOREDgascoyne resources ltdSun shines on Saturn MetalsSPONSOREDsaturn metalsMining Journal and MiningNews.Net Critical Minerals reportSPONSOREDThe result was down 40% on FY21's record result but was in line with analysts' expectations. Revenue was down 22% to $17.4 billion on record iron ore sales of 189 million tonnes.Read More
North Gilbey's a Gascoyne game-changerSPONSOREDgascoyne resources ltdSun shines on Saturn MetalsSPONSOREDsaturn metalsMining Journal and MiningNews.Net Critical Minerals reportSPONSOREDThe "unexpected" nickel potential is a "bonus" to the company's gold mission, chairman and CEO Colin Bird said, which has been identified in a combination of geological mapping and historic soilRead More
That would be in the event of votes going against the passing of the constitution, which is the likely outcome according to recent polling that saw 45.Read More
(IDEX Online) - An Indian jeweler has received national recognition after landing a Guinness World Record for a ring made with 24,679 natural diamonds.The Touch of Ami (pictured) took 90 days to make at SWA Diamonds, in Malappuram Inkel Educity, Kerala.The company has now received a Makers of India award for taking the title Most Diamonds Set in One Ring.Renani Jewels, based in Meerut, India, prev...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Diamond billionaire Beny Steinmetz today (Monday) launches an appeal after he was convicted of bribing officials in Guinea for valuable iron ore mining rights.He was sentenced to a five-year jail term and ordered to pay a $52m fine by a judge in Switzerland in January 2021.The court heard that Steinmetz, 66, a French and Israeli citizen, and others, paid $8.5m in a series of bribes...Read More
(IDEX Online) - A jewelry collection owned by US heiress and philanthropist Mary Anne Sammons Cree is expected to raise over $1.5m for charity.Highlight of the 125-lot auction is a 17.6-carat yellow diamond ring (pictured), with an estimate of $300,000 to $400,000. Cree, who died last July aged 91, was the daughter of the late billionaire Charles Sammons, from Dallas, Texas.In 1938 he founded...Read More
The company said lower grade at its Chuquicamata underground mine caused by geomechanical and material handling problems, and lower plant availability also contributed to the decline.Read More
The Ukrainian money-laundering racket continues. Last week Joe Biden pledged another $3 billion in aid to Ukraine. The aid includes weapon systems that will allow Ukraine to defend itself over the "long term."Just how long is the long term? How long does the administration plan on watching Ukraine be destroyed simply because they want to weaken Russia?By now, it's a familiar script. Ukraine says,...Read More
Japan's Honda Motor and South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution plan to invest US$4.4 billion to build a new battery production plant for electric vehicles in the U.S.The news comes on the heels of a string of recent announcements that aim at cutting China out of supply chains for EVs.It also marks the latest plans by automakers to invest in U.S. production of battery cells for EVs, as the i...Read More
Three diamond drills are turning at Collective Mining's (TSXV: CNL; US-OTC: CNLMF) newly discovered copper-gold-silver Apollo target in west-central Colombia.Apollo is one of eight porphyry-related targets the company has found within a 3-km by 4-km cluster, and is part of the Guayabales project, where it has an option to earn 100% interest.The new results are from two diamond drill holes - APC-3...Read More
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index drifted slightly lower over the Aug. 8-12 trading session by 0.6% or 3.99 points to end the week at 645.92. Shares in lithium developer Sigma Lithium rose $5.98 or 23.4% during the session to end at $31.53 apiece. Sigma continues with construction of its Grota do Cirilo spodumene project in Brazil's Minas Gerais state, with commissioning of the first-phase pla...Read More
Over the Aug. 22-26 trading period, the S&P/ TSX Composite Index fell 238.09 points or 1.18% lower, to 19,873.29. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index gained 2.37 points or 2.54% to 95.54, and the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index gained 8.5 points or 5.28% to 169.6. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index fell by 2.89 points or 1.22% to 233.36, and spot gold ended the week at US50 ? per oz. higher, or 0.29%, at...Read More
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1,423.34 points or 4.22% to 32,283.40, and the S&P 500 closed the trading week at 170.82 points or 4.04% lower at 4,057.66.The week's top US-based value gainers were three potash companies, highlighting an intensifying supply squeeze brought on by Russia's war in Ukraine.Intrepid Potash was the trading week's top value gainer, adding US$12.73 to close at US$55...Read More
The need to discover new sizeable economic nickel deposits has never been more acute as the world transitions to a clean-energy-driven economy that relies heavily on nickel-based battery technologies and more robust nickel-infused steel products. Set against this backdrop, The Northern Miner presents a top-ten ranking of the best nickel drill intercepts reported up to Aug. 17, 2022, with the top...Read More
Graphite One (TSXV: GPH; US-OTC: GPHOF) has released a prefeasibility study on developing a mine at its Graphite Creek property in Alaska and building a battery anode materials manufacturing plant in Washington state. The study was based on a proposed mine life of 23 years and a 26-year operating life for the manufacturing plant, which would use purchased graphite for the first four years until t...Read More