Elevra fires up NAL lithium mine expansion
Elevra Lithium (ASX: ELV; Nasdaq: ELVR) has started building a $366-million (US$271-million) expansion of its North American Lithium mine in Quebec and is negotiating another…
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Grid Metals’ atomic-clock cesium resource in Manitoba ranks second globally
Grid Metals (TSX: GRDM; US-OTC: MSMGF) has outlined an initial resource that positions the company’s Falcon West property in Manitoba as the world’s second-largest cesium resource…
Mayfair lines up $310M for Ontario gold project
Mayfair Gold (TSXV: MFG; NYSE-A: MINE) has reached a preliminary financing agreement with Australia’s Macquarie Bank for up to $310 million (US$218 million) to help…
Space miners may face an Earth-sized tax problem
Miners may one day extract fortunes from the Moon and asteroids, but governments will have to figure out how to take their cut without killing…
Beaver Creek video: Gold gains new role vs bonds
Gold’s growing role as a monetary alternative to government bonds and the U.S. dollar could mark a structural shift rather than another cyclical bull market,…
Gold Fields halts Windfall work as Quebec permit lapses
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – South Africa’s Gold Fields (NYSE, JSE: GFI) has paused underground development at Windfall in Quebec after an exploration-work permit expired, leaving…
Beaver Creek: BC chief warns permits aren’t consent
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. – A Kwagu’ł hereditary chief cautioned mining investors not to mistake government permits or mineral claims for his people’s consent, saying capital…
Podcast: US Asst Sec of Energy Audrey Robertson on reshoring critical minerals supply chain
This week’s episode features Audrey Robertson, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy for Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation, in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on recent…
Actor DiCaprio fights Belo Sun’s $300M Brazil mine
Leonardo DiCaprio has thrown his support behind opponents of Belo Sun Mining’s (TSX: BSX) proposed $300-million Volta Grande gold project in Brazil, adding a high-profile…
Miata drills 3.4 g gold at Sela Creek in Suriname
Drilling at Miata Metals’ (TSXV: MMET; US-OTC: MMETF) Sela Creek project in Suriname has returned stacked, high-grade intercepts in the Jons Trend, giving it the potential…
Arizona Gold finds high-grade zones at main project
New drilling by Arizona Gold & Silver (TSXV: AZS; US-OTC: AZASF) at its Philadelphia project in Arizona has encountered high-grade zones that extend gold mineralization…
Panama panel backs path to Cobre Panama restart
Panama should negotiate a restart of First Quantum Minerals’ (TSX: FM) Cobre Panama mine to fund its eventual orderly closure without burdening the state, a…