Boyd, Roosen, Quartermain: It takes grit, invention, luck to make the big time
Perseverance, a focus on geology and financial discipline and some good breaks are what’s needed to make a mining titan, some of the industry’s leaders…
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Ramp surges on Sprott backing for Sask. project
Ramp Metals (TSXV: RAMP) shares gained more than a quarter of their value on Wednesday after gold bug Eric Sprott invested in the Saskatchewan explorer. Sprott…
Heliostar gains on Mexican mines buy
Heliostar Metals (TSXV: HSTR; US-OTC: HSTXF) is again buying assets from the former Argonaut Gold to expand in Mexico. Its shares rose. Vancouver-based Heliostar is…
Arizona Sonoran expands Cactus copper resource
Arizona Sonoran (TSX: ASCU; US-OTC: ASCUF) increased its measured and indicated resource tonnage for the Cactus copper project in Arizona by more than a quarter…
Video: Seabridge Gold seeks BC OK to keep KSM permits
Seabridge Gold expects to receive the “substantial start’ designation under British Columbia laws for permits allowing KSM, the world’s largest undeveloped gold project, CEO Rudi…
Fortescue cuts 700 jobs, slows down green hydrogen plans
Fortescue (ASX: FMG) plans to cut about 700 jobs, or 4.5% of its global workforce, as part of a new restructuring push that will see the…
Rio Tinto names Shell’s Katie Jackson as new copper chief
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) has appointed Katie Jackson, a former Shell executive, as the new head of the company’s copper division,…
Montage Gold raises $180M from Zijin, Lundin for Koné project in West Africa
China’s Zijin Mining Group and the Lundin family are part of a $180 million capital raising to increase their stakes in Montage Gold (TSXV: MAU;…
Fed funding aims to boost women in mining from just 16%
Women represent only 16% of Canada’s mining industry’s workforce, a figure that’s three times lower than the average across all industries, according to the Mining…
Podcast: Suppliers ‘very, very busy’—MineConnect’s Marla Tremblay on connecting the mining industry
This week’s episode features MineConnect Executive Director Marla Tremblay in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli about how the organization facilitates relationships within the mining industry…
Eldorado funds Brixton Metals’ BC gold quest
Mid-tier producer Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD) is pledging nearly $6.5 million to advance Brixton Metals‘ (TSXV: BBB; US-OTC: BBBXF) search for the source of river…
Agnico expands First Nordic stake to 13%
Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM), Canada’s largest miner by market value, is investing $8.2 million to advance First Nordic Metals‘s (TSX-V: FNM) Oijärvi…