TRU Precious Metals (TSXV.TRU | OTCQB.TRUIF) has assembled a district scale land package in the highly-prospective Central Newfoundland Gold Belt.Read full newsRead More
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There is concern that the metals industry cannot deliver the supply required to achieve the Paris accord decarbonisation targets. Could an economic slowdown provide the breathing space that the industry needs?Read full newsRead More
Share this article VANCOUVER - Teuton Resources Corp. [TUO-TSXV, TFE Frankfurt] said Wednesday it has received a report from optionee Optimum Ventures Inc. [OPV-TSXV], which outlines encouraging results from drilling at the Harry project, which is located 25 kilometres north of Stewart, B.C.Optimum shares advanced on the news, rising 5.0% or $0.03 to 63 cents. The shares are currently trading i...Read More
Share this article VANCOUVER - Fortune Minerals Ltd. [FT-TSX; FTMDF-OTCQB] released results from the 2021 drill program on its 100%-owned NICO critical minerals project in the Northwest Territories and Alberta.The NICO Project is comprised of a planned open pit and underground mine, mill and concentrator in the NWT and a planned hydrometallurgical refinery in Alberta's Industrial Heartland nort...Read More
Cascabel would produce an average of 132,000 tonnes per year of copper, 358,000 ounces a year of gold and 1Moz/y of silver, or 212,000tpy copper equivalent for an initial 26 years in a cleanRead More
Hole 58, which is outside the current resource shell and ended in mineralisation, also intercepted 6m grading 398 grams per tonne silver in the silver zone.Read More
Historic assays build hype for Alicanto at SalaSPONSOREDalicanto mineralsMakuutu magnetises support for Ionic Rare EarthsSPONSOREDionic rare earthsFortuna backs West Africa for growthSPONSOREDfortuna silver minesWest Africa an improved opportunitySPONSOREDBig River's undeveloped Borborema project has 2.43 million ounces in resources, meaning the transaction equates to about $38/oz.The 36c per shar...Read More
Gold production at the Sukari mine was down 11% year on year in the first quarter, at 93,109 ounces. Revenue was down 8% to US$174.Read More
Petropavlovsk has been asked to immediately repay a US$201.0 million loan by Gazprombank, with another US$$87.1 million demanded by April 26.Read More
(IDEX Online) - De Beers today signed diamond-mining agreements with the government of Angola, signaling its return to the country after more than two decades. Both sides appear to be patching up a "difficult" relationship, after Angola halted all diamond contracts in 2000 and granted a monopoly to Sodiam, the newly-created, state-run company.De Beers went on to file arbitration proceedi...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The Kimberley Process faces criticism for failing to act on Russian diamonds, in a hard-hitting report by a Belgium-based independent research institute."Following several failed reform attempts, the Kimberley Process still looks at conflict through a 20-year-old lens," says Hans Merket, (pictured) researcher for the International Peace Information Service (IPIS) in a report entitl...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Australia's diamond industry is to be revived with the launch of Burgundy branded gems, with price tags of up to US$7.5m.It hasn't produced diamonds since the closure of the iconic Argyle mine, in November 2020, but Ellendale, famous for its yellow gems, is due to resume operations by the end of the year.Perth-based Burgundy, which now owns the deposit, will mine, polish...Read More
(IDEX Online) - A New York jeweler has been charged with laundering money for violent gang members.Stanislav "Steve" Yakubov, allegedly acted as a fence for armed attackers who stole watches and jewelry worth $2m in a series of assaults on jewelers near their homes in New York and New Jersey.He was arrested last month and has since been indicted in Manhattan Federal Court on allegations that he bo...Read More
The Q1 production fell 38% year-on-year to 15.9Mlb CuEq, which Sierra blamed mainly on a 50% decrease in throughput at Bolivar mine in Mexico, in conjunction with lower-grade ore. "An improvement is expected on a quarterly basis, in particular during the second half of the year, due to the full turn-around effort currently underway," Sierra's CEO Luis Marchese said. He said that the turn...Read More
Historic assays build hype for Alicanto at SalaSPONSOREDalicanto mineralsMakuutu magnetises support for Ionic Rare EarthsSPONSOREDionic rare earthsFortuna backs West Africa for growthSPONSOREDfortuna silver minesWest Africa an improved opportunitySPONSOREDVale's iron ore production stood at 63.93 million tonnes in Q1, having dropped 6% year-on-year and 23% quarter-on-quarter. Pellet productio...Read More
Historic assays build hype for Alicanto at SalaSPONSOREDalicanto mineralsMakuutu magnetises support for Ionic Rare EarthsSPONSOREDionic rare earthsFortuna backs West Africa for growthSPONSOREDfortuna silver minesWest Africa an improved opportunitySPONSOREDShipments were 71.5 million tonnes, well below consensus estimates of 76.6Mt and missing RBC Capital Market's more conservative forecast of 73.1...Read More
The value of global magnet rare earth oxide consumption will triple by 2035, from US$15.1 billion to US$46.2 billion, according to a new report published by Adamas Intelligence, an independent research group. It also predicts the lack of new primary and secondary supply sources for rare earth oxides in the market from 2022 onwards, coupled with the inability of existing producers to increase thei...Read More
Fortune Minerals (TSX: FT; OTC: FTMDF) has released results from 2021 drilling on its wholly-owned NICO cobalt-gold-bismuth-copper property, including the confirmation of a new mineralized zone.The NICO project consists of a proposed open-pit and underground mine, mill, and concentrator in the Northwest Territories, and a planned hydrometallurgical refinery in Alberta's Industrial Heartland northe...Read More
SolGold (LSE: SOLG; TSX: SOLG) published on Wednesday a long-awaited prefeasibility study (PFS) for its Cascabel project in Ecuador, which states the asset has the potential to become one of the 20 largest copper-gold mines in South America.The miner, which owns 85% of Cascabel, estimated the project's EBITDA, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, at US$1.2 billion o...Read More