PDAC: How size, location affect investor picks
Big discoveries trump jurisdictional issues but sometimes case by case analysis turns that on its head, Scotiabank’s mining and metals investment team leader told a session at the Prospectors &…
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Fourth-largest gold producer due for IPO
The biggest gold company you may never have heard of — may, because The Northern Miner did cover it at length two years ago — could be heading towards an…
Aris Mining’s Woodyer on his billion-dollar babies
The Northern Miner podcast host Adrian Pocobelli sat down with company-builder Neil Woodyer, who founded Aris Mining (TSX: ARIS; NYSE-AM: ARMN), Endeavour Mining (LSE, TSX: EDV; US-OTC: EDVMF) and Leagold…
Trump, Zelenskyy nix minerals deal
United States President Donald Trump and his Ukraine counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy cancelled a mineral rights and security agreement at the White House on Friday after a news conference degenerated into…
Is private equity the solution to funding shortfalls?
Private equity’s interest in mining remains robust despite a short-term slump in deals, industry executives and financiers say. Metals and mining transactions involving private equity and venture capital firms fell…
Copper tariffs to hit consumers: ex-Codelco CEO
Potential U.S. tariffs on copper will only serve to drive up prices for consumers because domestic producers won’t be able to make up the shortfall, the former CEO of Chilean…
Editorial: Still drilling after all these years
The Northern Miner turns 110 this March and is looking pretty good for its age. Much better, for example, than cobalt, which is also the name of the Ontario town…
JV Q&A: The HiveMap platform offers next-gen geological mapping for mining
The mining industry is in constant need of replacing what it produces through making new discoveries. One way of aiding this quest entails embracing new technologies to enhance miners’ discovery…
Laramide boosts Westmoreland tonnage by a third
An update to Laramide Resources’ (TSX, ASX: LAM; US-OTC: LMRXF) Westmoreland uranium project in northern Australia increases indicated tonnage by 34% and inferred tonnage by 11% over the previous resource from…
Q&A: The Metals Co. plunges into the deep
You may have heard of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean. It’s a stretch of area from Hawaii to Mexico, which has been targeted by the deep-sea mining sector….
SQM expands into Africa with $40M Namibia deal
Chile’s SQM (NYSE: SQM), the world’s second largest lithium producer, has received approval from Namibian regulators to proceed with an earn-in agreement worth up to US$40 million with South Africa-based…
What happens when the tax gets axed?
Canada’s major political parties have all tabled plans to chop the carbon tax but there’s been little discussion on reforming the emissions levies applied to industry, which has fomented uncertainty…