World’s third-largest pension fund to limit coal-linked investing
South Korea’s state pension fund, the world’s third-largest, says it will stop funding new coal power projects at home and abroad, joining global efforts to…
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Snapshot: Eight companies at work in South America
South America is home to rich deposits — not only of gold and silver, but of copper, zinc and lithium. Here are eight Canadian companies…
79North reports new gold discovery at Nassau project in Suriname
79North (CSE: JQ; US-OTC: SVNTF) has made a new discovery at its 20,000 hectare Nassau gold project in Suriname, about 20 km south of Newmont’s…
Danakali to use filtered sea water at Colluli potash mine
Australia’s Danakali (ASX: DNK; LSE:DNK) says filtered seawater is a reliable, unlimited and economic option to use in the sulphate of potash (SoP) production process…
Ontario injects funds into Frontier Lithium’s processing pilot
Frontier Lithium (TSXV: FL; US-OTC: LITOF) said the Ontario government is injecting $363,000 (about US$300,000) into the company’s pilot of a proprietary process that seeks…
Canada Nickel completes PEA for Crawford nickel project
Just over 20 months after exploration drilling commenced at its Crawford nickel sulphide asset, Canada Nickel Company (TSX: CNC; US-OTC: CNIKF) has completed a preliminary…
Edumine spotlight: Determining the essential value of mineral projects
When one of Dennis Buchanan’s PhD candidates at Imperial College in London was recently stressed from exams and developed writer’s block, he was able to…
Global Mining Symposium: Companies that don’t embrace ESG will have trouble accessing capital, says Jamie Strauss of Digbee ESG
Companies in the mining industry need to move away from the mindset that environmental, social, and governance disclosure is primarily a compliance issue to a…
BC miners urge govt to ‘level the playing field’ on carbon tax
British Columbia’s mining industry stands to potentially miss a generational opportunity to become the “brand of choice” for supplying many of the critical minerals the…
Biggest copper project in decades begins production
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) has begun producing copper concentrate at its Kamoa-Kakula project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) months ahead…
Kenorland drills 5.7 metres of 90.6 g/t gold at Frotet in Quebec
Kenorland Minerals (TSXV: KLD) has reported drill results from half the 30 holes recently drilled at the high-grade Frotet gold project in northern Quebec, including…
Global Mining Symposium: Evolution Mining’s Jake Klein on margins over volume
In the first six months of fiscal 2021, Evolution Mining (ASX: EVN) banked over 50% of every ounce of gold it produced in terms of…