Sirios eyes 200,000 oz gold a year in Quebec
Sirios Resources (TSXV: SOI; US-OTC: SIREF) is sizing its Cheechoo project as a large standalone gold operation in Quebec’s James Bay region as CEO Jean-Félix Lepage moves the deposit from…
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Canada’s miners must seize political opening: Gratton
Canada’s mining industry has won the political support needed to reverse years of decline, outgoing Mining Association of Canada (MAC) president and CEO Pierre Gratton said Tuesday. Companies now need…
Rock Tech cuts lithium plant cost estimate by 54%
Rock Tech Lithium’s (TSXV: RCK; US-OTC: RCKTF) proposed Ontario lithium refinery will cost $596 million (US$420.9 million), less than half its previous estimate, although the company hasn’t explained most of…
Gold ETF rush defies 8.5% gold price slide
Investors poured a record amount of money into gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) last quarter even as bullion suffered its sharpest monthly drop of the year, underscoring an unusual split between…
Sigma Lithium jumps after Brazil court reopens mine
Sigma Lithium (Nasdaq, TSXV: SGML; ASX: SAU) shares rose as much as 6.7% in New York on Wednesday after a Brazilian appeals court upheld its environmental licences, clearing the company…
Q2 logs 1.2% lithium at Cisco as PEA nears
Drilling at Q2 Metals’ (TSXV: QTWO; US-OTC: QUEXF) Cisco lithium project in Quebec extended known mineralization by 100 metres ahead of a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) that’s expected soon. Highlight…
Altius makes bid for rest of TNR amid board fight
Altius Minerals (TSX: ALS) has made an unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire the 87% of TNR Gold (TSXV: TNR; US-OTC: TRRXF) it doesn’t already own, a move that would give…
Vizsla Copper logs high-grade silver in Alaska
Vizsla Copper (TSXV: VCU; US-OTC: VCUFF) says new drilling at its Palmer copper-zinc project in southeast Alaska highlights the property’s potential for high-grade silver mineralization. Standout hole CMR26-215 at the…
NioBay seeks partners to advance Crevier project
Junior explorer NioBay Metals (TSXV: NBY; US-OTC: NBYCF) is looking for financial backers to speed up development of its Crevier niobium-tantalum project in northern Quebec and pave the way for…
Sponsored video: Tudor Gold expects Seabridge accord by year-end
Tudor Gold President and CEO Joe Ovsenek in conversation with The Northern Miner Western Editor Henry Lazenby. This sponsored video is PROMOTED CONTENT paid for by Tudor Gold and produced…
Sponsored video: AbraSilver aims to fund Diablillos this year
AbraSilver Resource CEO John Miniotis in conversation with The Northern Miner Western Editor Henry Lazenby. This sponsored video is PROMOTED CONTENT paid for by AbraSilver Resource and produced in co-operation…
Podcast: Yttrium, Terbium, Erbium, Ytterbium — A brief history of rare earths, ft RMG’s Magnus Ericsson
This week’s episode features Magnus Ericsson, adjunct professor at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden and co-founder of Mineral Economics and the Raw Materials Report, in conversation with host Adrian…
Discovery silver project clears key Mexico hurdle
Discovery Mining (TSX: DSV, US-OTC: DSVSF) said it received two key environmental and land-use permits from the Mexican government, allowing the Canadian miner to advance its Cordero silver project toward…
Canterra grows Newfoundland copper-zinc resource 55% as grades fall
Canterra Minerals (TSXV: CTM; US-OTC: CTMCF) has increased the indicated resource at its Lundberg copper-zinc deposit in Newfoundland by 55%, delivering the “higher-confidence tonnes” it was seeking even as grades…
Inomin cuts 420 metres at Lynx nickel discovery
First-pass drilling at Inomin Mines’ (TSXV: MINE) Lynx block in central British Columbia cut 420 metres of near-surface nickel-magnesium mineralization, marking a second discovery area 10 km south of Beaver….
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Podcast: Yttrium, Terbium, Erbium, Ytterbium — A brief history of rare earths, ft RMG’s Magnus Ericsson
Podcast: US Asst Sec of Energy Audrey Robertson on reshoring critical minerals supply chain
Podcast: Copper tariff decision could trigger unwind, ft Bloomberg Intelligence’s Grant Sporre
Podcast: The geopolitics of mining in the Sahel and Myanmar, ft Critical Risk Team’s George McLeod
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Northern Miner awards Sean Boyd who built Agnico Eagle on ‘culture of the heart’
Sean Boyd complimented Paul Penna on his briefcase the first time the young auditor met Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX, NYSE: AEM) founder in 1983. Penna placed it on the tiny…
London Symposium: Ontario’s focus on fast-track, refining wins industry praise
Ontario’s push to OK major projects in less than two years and keep more mineral processing at home stunned industry heavyweights at The Northern Miner’s International Metals Symposium in London. “We’re moving with speed,” provincial Energy and Mines Minister Stephen Lecce…
London Symposium video: Rick Rule on gold
The surging gold price over the past two years marks a catch-up based on a bull market going back to 2000 that few recognized then, veteran investor Rick Rule says…