Orla Mining reports high grade assays from Camino Rojo gold project in Mexico
Orla Mining (TSX: OLA; NYSE: ORLA) has released new assay results from drilling the sulphides zone at its Camino Rojo gold project in Mexico’s Zacatecas…
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Chilean lawmakers postpone vote on controversial mining royalty bill
Bill calls for a 3% royalty on sales of over 12,000 tonnes of copper productions a year and 50,000t/y of lithium.
The View from England: Pandemic yields buried treasure
Gold is still being discovered in England, but it’s not geologists doing the finding. As we emerge from the pandemic it seems that many of…
Anglo American, Salzgitter to jointly advance green steel
Anglo American (LSE: AAL) and German steel producer Salzgitter Flachstahl will work together on decarbonizing the steel sector by exploring ways to reduce carbon emissions. The…
Quebec injects $13.5 million into Monarch Mining to help it reopen Beaufor
The Canadian province of Quebec has granted Monarch Mining (TSXV: GBAR; US-OTC: GBARF) a $13.5 million senior secured term loan agreement to help the company restart the…
RANKED: World’s ten biggest gold mining companies
Gold made history in 2020 when the price hit a record high in August as pandemic concerns weighed on investor sentiment. Gold mining has been a hallmark…
Kamoa-Kakula achieves commercial production milestone
Africa-focused megaproject developer Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) has declared commercial production at the first phase of the Kamoa-Kakula copper mine in the Democratic…
Canada’s newest gold mine starts commercial production
Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM; LSE: PUR) has kicked off commercial production at its namesake mine in Red Lake, Ontario, eight months after pouring first gold. The Toronto-based miner said the…
Barrick agrees to independent environmental studies for Pueblo Viejo expansion
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) and its key stakeholders have agreed on independent government-led oversight of the environmental and social impact studies for the…
BHP to expand nickel operations to meet soaring demand
BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) will make a final investment decision on a major expansion of the processing plant at its Mt. Keith…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 250: Rio Tinto issues $9.1B dividend on booming metal prices
This week’s episode features Rio Tinto’s second-quarter conference call with chief executive officer Jakob Stausholm and chief financial officer Peter Cunningham. The executives discuss the…
Copper price: China’s scrap rebalancing act could de-rail recovery – report
Surging Chinese scrap copper imports that have doubled in the first half of 2021 are displacing to some extent refined cathode, concentrate, anode and blister…
Thor Explorations pours first gold at Segilola in Nigeria
The first gold has been poured at Thor Exploration’s (TSXV: THX; AIM: THX) 100%-owned Segilola open-pit mine in Nigeria and the company forecasts the mine…
Sibanye-Stillwater to acquire Eramet’s Sandouville nickel processing facility in France
In its second acquisition in the battery metals space in six months, Sibanye-Stillwater (NYSE: SBSW), one of the world’s largest primary producers of platinum, palladium…
Lucara digs up 393 carat diamond at Karowe
Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC) has recovered a 393 carat diamond from its company’s Karowe mine in Botswana, the seventh stone greater than 300 carats dug up at the…
SSR Mining sells non-core royalty portfolio to EMX Royalty
SSR Mining (TSX: SSRM; NASDAQ: SSRM; ASX: SSR) is selling its non-core royalty portfolio to EMX Royalty (TSXV: EMX; NYSE-AM: EMX) for a total of…
Construction begins for Nouveau Monde’s Matawinie mine
Nouveau Monde Graphite (TSXV: NOU; US-OTC: NMGRF) has begun civil construction works for its Matawinie graphite mine in Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Quebec, 120 km north of Montreal….
Anglo American half-year profit best in its 104-year history
The diversified miner reported pre-tax profits of $10.1 billion for the six months to June, more than double what it made in 2020 as a whole.
Cameco pares Q2 loss as uranium contract business grows
Canada’s largest uranium producer Cameco (TSX: CCO) says it has managed to narrow its June-quarter headline loss despite a 32% drop in overall revenue. The…
First Mining, First Nation strike accord for Cameron gold project
First Mining Gold (TSX: FF; OTC: FFMGF) has entered into an exploration agreement with Animakee Wa Zhing #37 First Nation (AWZ 37) covering the Cameron gold project,…
Alphamin reports more high-grade tin assays from Mpama South, stock jumps
The company has also commenced mine extension drilling at Mpama North.
Bluejay Mining to sell projects in Finland for $7m
It has agreed to sell its Paltamo and Rautavaara nickel, zinc, copper and cobalt projects to battery metals miner Metals One.
Top Australian capital raises seek to create mining value
Australia-headquartered miners have been tapping the capital markets in the year to July 14 to raise a total of US$2.33 billion in capital, according to…
The Northern Miner Podcast
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 250: Rio Tinto issues $9.1B dividend on booming metal prices
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 249: Freeport-McMoRan develops ‘next level’ leaching technology using AI and data analytics
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 248: Alcoa posts record quarter, citing China and metal prices
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 247: A survey of Manitoba’s mining industry, ft Pedersen, Parsons, McCallum and Lee
Special Focus: South America 2021
Goldsource seeks to chart scalable development of Eagle Mountain
Goldsource Mines (TSXV: GXS) is rapidly advancing the Eagle Mountain project in Guyana, the country’s second-largest undeveloped gold deposit, CEO Steve Parsons tells The Northern…
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Peru voters divided ahead of June 6 presidential election
Snapshot: Eight companies at work in South America
79North reports new gold discovery at Nassau project in Suriname
Special Focus: Canadian Gold 2021
Exploration at Argonaut’s Magino project yields exciting results
About four months into the planned two-year construction of Argonaut Gold’s (TSX: AR) new cornerstone Magino project in northeastern Ontario, smooth progress and encouraging new…
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Kirkland Lake Gold’s Detour Lake on course to be a world-class gold mine, says CEO Tony Makuch
Canadian Gold Snapshot: Eight juniors seeking more yellow metal
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.