The military junta that took control of Guinea in September is heaping pressure on multinational miners to refine raw bauxite, a raw material used to make aluminium, to more advanced materials before export.In a recent research note released by CRU Group's senior analyst, Anthony Everiss, the junta has asked the companies to present the mines ministry with proposals by the end of May with a precis...Read More

Share this article VANCOUVER - Barrick Gold Corp. [ABX-TSX, GOLD-NYSE] said its Nevada Gold Mines operation is investing in a 200-megawatt solar power plant designed to accelerate its decarbonization program by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. No cost details were revealed in Wednesday's press release.Nevada Gold Mines, established in July 2019, is owned 61.5% and operated by Barrick Gold. Newm...Read More

Lake Resources targeting 100ktpa lithium productionSPONSOREDlake resourcesAsante Gold poised for successful 2022SPONSOREDasante goldWorld Copper has economics to back Escalones resource in ChileSPONSOREDworld copper ltd.West Africa an improved opportunitySPONSORED The sale equates to a price of $8.39 per share, a circa 9% premium to its trading price this week, with the buyer being an Eric Sprott-...Read More

The company shipped natural uranium concentrates to the Metropolis Works uranium conversion facility in Metropolis, Illinois for conversion into uranium hexafluoride which will be enriched and used asRead More

NGM is partnering with First Solar to manufacture the modules required to support the 200MW construction and expects to begin construction in the September quarter of 2022.Read More

The $4 billion first phase would install a 40 million tonnes per year operation, which could be expanded in year five to 80Mpty following an additional $3 billion investment.Read More

(IDEX Online) - Diamond manufacturers in India have cut their output, reduced working days from 12 hours to eight and are closing factories for two days a week as US sanctions on Russian diamonds begin to bite.The vast majority of the world's diamonds are cut and polished in Surat, but only about 10 per cent of Russia's diamond output is imported directly.Last week the US added Alrosa, t...Read More

)IDEX Online) - One of the world's largest yellow diamonds - weighing 205.7-ct and known as the Red Cross Diamond - is to be auctioned by Christie's London.The fancy intense yellow, cushion-shaped stone (pictured) has a pavilion distinctively faceted in the shape of a Maltese cross.The original rough gem was recovered by De Beers, in South Africa, in 1901 and was sold in   1918...Read More

Lake Resources targeting 100ktpa lithium productionSPONSOREDlake resourcesAsante Gold poised for successful 2022SPONSOREDasante goldWorld Copper has economics to back Escalones resource in ChileSPONSOREDworld copper ltd.West Africa an improved opportunitySPONSOREDOpponents of the project filed a legal complaint in 2020 and the case was heard last year.Read More

Canadian potash upstart Gensource Potash Corporation (TSXV: GSP; AIM: GSP) has reached a binding agreement to buy the outstanding equity of Innovare Technologies, a privately-held developer of patented selective solution mining and brine processing technology to recover potash and other soluble minerals.The deal, which values Innovare at US$11.5 million, is a strategic initiative by Gensource to c...Read More

It is said that to produce any good, what cannot be grown must be mined. By this token, governments and the general public tend to conveniently forget that the energy revolution and, by extension, the global effort to reduce anthropogenic carbon emissions depend squarely on the abundant and reliable supply of critical metals mined from the ground. With the recent release of the Canadian federal g...Read More

Nevada Gold Mines (NGM) is investing in a 200-megawatt (MW) solar power plant designed to accelerate its decarbonization program, in line majority owner Barrick Gold's (NYSE: GOLD; TSX: ABX) Greenhouse Gas Reduction Roadmap.NGM has entered a partnership with Arizona-based First Solar to manufacture all modules required to support the 200 MW plant, entirely in the United States. NGM has already co...Read More

Constantine Metal Resources' (TSXV: CEM) flagship Palmer property in southeast Alaska has been given a budget of US$18 million for its upcoming work program. Palmer is an advanced stage copper-zinc-gold-silver exploration project with road access and located within 60 km of the deep sea port at Haines.The joint-venture project with Dowa Metals & Mining currently hosts resources at the Palmer and...Read More

In its first updated resource since 2021, Osino Resources (TSXV: OSI; US-OTC: OSIIF) has increased indicated resources for its Twin Hills gold project in central Namibia by more than four times. The additional ounces come from resource expansion in the Twin Hills Central, Bulge and Clouds areas, and delineation of additional resources from new areas. The project's indicated resource estimate n...Read More

Energy Fuels?EUR?(TSX: EFR; NYSE: UUUU) made three commercial shipments of uranium, vanadium and rare earth elements (REE) through its Utah-based White Mesa mill last week, a feat which the company described as rare and one that depicts its ability to become a "clean energy and critical mineral hub" in the United States. The company shipped natural uranium concentrates (U3O8) to the Metropolis Wo...Read More

U.S. miner Talon Metals (TSX: TLO; OTC: TLOFF) said on Wednesday it had bought three more drill rigs to expand exploration at its Tamarack nickel-copper-cobalt project in Minnesota, which already has among its clients electric vehicles (EV) giant Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA).Talon currently holds a 51% interest in the Tamarack project, the only high-grade development-stage nickel project in the U.S. The r...Read More

(IDEX Online) - An extremely rare 8.82-ct fancy intense purple-pink diamond yesterday sold for $6,780,000 at Christie's New York.It was well above the pre-sale estimate of $4m to $6m.The pear modified brilliant-cut gem, known as the Fuchsia Rose diamond (pictured), was certified by GIA as "VVS1 clarity, potentially Internally Flawless, Type IIa" and was set with a pair of pear brilliant-cut d...Read More

What is money? Everyone thinks they know what money is, but the Fed doesn't even know what money is. They have three or more different definitions of money (M0, M1 and M2, etc.).For example, money includes cash and checking deposits. But then there's "near money," which includes such things as savings deposits and money market mutual funds. They can be converted into cash or checking deposits, so...Read More

I just received an order from Amazon for these two products.They come in identical packages.But inside these two boxes are very different things.Inside one of these small boxes is a dangerous, highly toxic substance that's estimated to kill 900,000 people every year.In the other is a harmless, non-toxic material which will act as the "glue" that holds together all future technologies.It's a materi...Read More

Lahontan Gold Corp. (formerly, 1246765 B.C. Ltd.) (theRead full newsRead More