Risk is a moving target
With more than 99.6% of the votes counted in Peru’s presidential election, it looks like left-wing Pedro Castillo of the Peru Libre party has defeated…
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Leftist Castillo emerges as likely winner of Peru’s contested presidential election
Socialist candidate Pedro Castillo is emerging as the winner of Peru’s June 6 presidential elections, with 99.6% of the votes counted. According to the latest…
Western Uranium & Vanadium buys physical uranium
Western Uranium & Vanadium (CSE: WUC; US-OTC: WSTRF) has signed an agreement to buy 125,000 pounds of uranium concentrate at the current market price for…
Gold Mountain speeds toward first production at Elk Gold in BC
Gold Mountain Mining (TSXV: GMTN; US-OTC: GMTNF) is on track for first production in October and first revenue in November at its Elk Gold project…
Imperial drilling at Red Chris cuts 1.1 g/t gold, 1.1% copper
Imperial Metals (TSX: III) has released new drill results from the newly discovered East Ridge zone of the Red Chris copper-gold mine, 80 km south…
Diamonds Snapshot: Eight Canadian companies ready for discovery
After a difficult 2020 that saw a near shutdown of the diamond market for half the year as a result of pandemic-related travel restrictions, diamond…
Rough diamond pricing: Learn the lessons of history or history will repeat itself
Suddenly, diamonds are looking interesting again. The cutbacks in diamond production last year, allied to the substantial fall in manufacturing capacity in India (the major…
Investors with US$41 trillion urge G7 to end support for coal
A group of 457 investors, which oversees more than US$41 trillion in assets combined, and a coalition of 79 company CEOs are calling on the…
Ekati to produce 4M carats in 2021 under new owners, Arctic Canadian Diamond
After a roller coaster of a year that almost forced an early end to the Ekati diamond mine, the operation’s new owners, Arctic Canadian Diamond…
JV Article: Red Pine Exploration reaches milestone with Wawa gold project consolidation
After Red Pine Exploration’s (TSXV: RPX) consolidation of its interests and 100% ownership of the Wawa gold project, followed with the subsequent acquisition of the…
Largo Resources to capture 3% of clean energy storage market by 2025
Integrated vanadium producer Largo Resources (TSX: LGO; OTCQB: LGORF) is charting a course towards capturing 3% or about 1,400 megawatt-hours of the long-duration energy storage…
Zijin, Citic to buy copper from Ivanhoe’s Kamoa-Kakula mine
Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN) has inked deals with China’s Zijin Mining’s subsidiary and trader Citic Metal to sell each 50% of the copper production from…
Cornish Metals’ tin-copper project richer than thought
Cornish Metals (TSXV: CUSN; LON: CUSN) posted on Wednesday an updated resource estimate for its South Crofty tin-copper project in Cornwall, southwest England, as it…
Turmalina Metals intersects 4.3% copper at San Francisco project in Argentina
Drilling at Turmalina Metal’s (TSXV: TBX; US-OTC: TBXXF) San Francisco project in Argentina has returned high-grade copper mineralization from the San Francisco del Andes (SFdLA)…
Newcore shares surge on updated Enchi PEA
The Toronto-quoted shares of Canadian project developer Newcore Gold (TSXV: NCAU, US-OTC: NCAUF) surged nearly 15% this morning following an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA)…
Callinex intersects more high-grade copper at Rainbow deposit
Since Callinex Mines (TSXV: CNX; US-OTC: CLLXF) resumed drilling in mid-February at the Rainbow deposit at its Pine Bay project in Manitoba’s Flin Flon district…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 242: Cloud offers ‘scalability and standardization’ across mining operations, ft Anthony Downs and Dean Gehrin
This week’s episode features Vale’s Anthony Downs and Newmont’s Dean Gehring in conversation with Northern Miner senior reporter Carl A. Williams at the Global Mining Symposium….
Noront snubs Wyloo debt offer
Noront Resources (TSXV: NOT) has rejected a loan offer from major shareholder and Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest’s Wyloo Metals late last week, citing an…
Global uranium output tipped for growth as spot prices tick up – report
Worldwide uranium production will recover by 3.1% to reach 51,200 tonnes in 2021 as significant mines come back online following a Covid-19 hiatus, new analysis…
The View from England: Old assumptions are breached by new technology
Protect your assets against current threats but remember that nothing lasts forever. It is a lesson that mining executives and metals investors should know, and…
JV Article: Modern exploration techniques could unlock potential of Slave Lake Zinc’s O’Connor Lake
Slave Lake Zinc’s (CSE: SLZ) 100%-owned O’Connor Lake project in the Northwest Territories, about 185 km southeast of Yellowknife and 150 km east of Hay River,…
JV Article: Navigating the gold royalties market: Spot the winning streams
Royalty juniors co-exist in a noisy space, just like exploration companies do, but what is essential to their success is exposure to active, rather than…
Global Copper Snapshot: Eight companies advancing copper projects around the world
With copper’s key role in the transition to greener forms of energy to fight climate change, along with soaring prices for the metal, companies are…
The Northern Miner Podcast
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 242: Cloud offers ‘scalability and standardization’ across mining operations, ft Anthony Downs and Dean Gehrin
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 241: The mining industry ‘has never been healthier’, ft Gold Royalty’s David Garofalo at the Global Mining Symposium
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 240: Cameco sees supply ‘uncertainty’ as world transitions to net zero carbon economy
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 239: Digital strategies for mining companies, ft Rory Friedman
Special Focus: Colombia, Ecuador and Peru 2021
Miners await presidential elections in Ecuador
On April 11th, Ecuadorians choose a new president with critical implications for the country’s nascent mining industry. For many, the vote is a referendum on…
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Colombia, Ecuador & Peru Snapshot: Companies with interesting properties to watch
Tier One Silver raises $13.5M ahead of Q2 drilling in Peru
Nexa Resources aims to expand copper assets
Special Focus: United States 2021
US government gives high priority status to Graphite One’s Alaskan project
In mid-January Graphite One’s (TSX: GPH; US-OTC: GPHOF) Graphite Creek project in Alaska was designated as a High-Priority Infrastructure Project (HPIP) by the U.S. government’s…
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US Snapshot: Eight companies on the move
Getchell Gold hits high-grade gold at Fondaway Canyon in Nevada
Lynas shares jump on deal for US rare earth plant
USA Rare Earth outlines domestic mine-to-magnet strategy
Canadian Mining Symposium 2020
Video: Andrew Cheatle on ESG at the Global Mining Symposium
Andrew Cheatle – Featured Speaker – GMS: November 12th, 2020 from The Northern Miner on Vimeo.
Video: Victoria Gold’s John McConnell at the Global Mining Symposium
John McConnell – Featured Speaker – GMS: November 10th, 2020 from The Northern Miner on Vimeo.
Video: Caldas Gold’s Serafino Iacono at the Global Mining Symposium
Serafino Iacono – Featured Speaker – GMS: November 10th, 2020 from The Northern Miner on Vimeo.
Video: AWS, OpsGuru, Xerris Thought Leadership Panel on cloud technology at the Global Mining Symposium
AWS, OpsGuru, Xerris – Thought Leadership Panel – GMS: November 12th, 2020 from The Northern Miner on Vimeo.
Video: Haywood Securities’ David Elliott at the Global Mining Symposium
David Elliott – Featured Speaker – GMS: November 10th, 2020 from The Northern Miner on Vimeo.
Video: EY panel on cybersecurity and emerging threats at the Global Mining Symposium
EY Thought Leadership Panel – GMS: November 10th, 2020 from The Northern Miner on Vimeo.
Video: David Rosenberg on precious metals and macroeconomics at the Global Mining Symposium
David Rosenberg – Featured Speaker – GMS: November 12th, 2020 from The Northern Miner on Vimeo.