Canada to impose new tariffs on China
Canada is to slap more tariffs on a range of imports from China early next year “to combat unfair Chinese trade practices,” the federal government said Monday in its 2024…
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London Symposium JV Video: Purepoint targets high-grade discoveries with Athabasca Basin partnerships
Purepoint Uranium (TSXV: PTU) plans an aggressive exploration strategy in the Athabasca Basin, host to the world’s highest-grade uranium deposits, an industry event heard in London. The company spent US$10…
Podcast: ‘Getting rich is a slow process’, ft Jay Martin on VRIC, resource investing and metals markets
This week’s episode features Jay Martin, CEO of Cambridge House, discussing the highly anticipated Vancouver Resource Investment Conference (VRIC) taking place January 19-20, 2025. Martin provides a preview of this…
Arcadium Lithium investors sue it for negligence over US$6.7B Rio Tinto takeover
Arcadium Lithium (NYSE: ALTM; ASX: LTM) is facing legal challenges after shareholders filed lawsuits alleging misrepresentation and negligence linked to Rio Tinto’s (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) US$6.7-billion takeover. Philadelphia-based Arcadium…
Uranium spot prices to climb in ‘staircase’ pattern, Sprott forecasts
As 2024 closes out, the uranium spot price touches a low point for the year but remains at a higher level than seen in more than a decade, as Japan’s…
Skeena’s Eskay Creek bulk sample permit unlocks US$200M in gold project funding
Skeena Resources (TSX: SKE; NYSE: SKE) can proceed with a 10,000-tonne bulk sample and infrastructure construction at its Eskay Creek gold project in northwestern British Columbia under a new permit that…
Governments inject US$50M into Nouveau Monde Graphite for ore-to-battery plans
Nouveau Monde Graphite (NYSE: NMG; TSX.V: NOU) announced a US$50 million equity investment by the Canada Growth Fund (CGF) and the Quebec government – via its agent Investissement Québec –…
Brazilian authorities shut Jaguar mine after tailings slide
Local labour officials shut Jaguar Mining‘s (TSX: JAG) Turmalina gold mine in Brazil due to safety risks stemming from a recent tailings pile collapse. The mine—part of Jaguar’s MTL complex…
Rio Tinto, BHP, BlueScope select Perth to build low-emission iron plant
Australia’s two largest iron ore miners, Rio Tinto (ASX, LSE, NYSE: RIO) and BHP (LSE, NYSE, ASX: BHP), working with BlueScope Steel, have selected Perth to locate the country’s largest…
London Symposium Video: ESG needs realistic overhaul, O’Toole says
American voter backlash against environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles threatens Canada’s mining industry and its role in the continent’s emerging clean energy supply chain, the former head of the…
Miners navigate high risks, ransoms in West Africa
Mali’s military government is trying to arrest the CEO of the world’s second-largest gold company while the junta in Niger has tightened its stranglehold on a French state-owned uranium mine….
Sierra Metals shares jump on takeover offer from Peruvian firm
Alpayana SAC, a private Peruvian mining company, said Friday it would bypass Sierra Metals‘ (TSX: SMT) board and make a direct, all-cash offer of 85¢ per share to shareholders. The…