Rio Tinto to keep New Zealand aluminium smelter until 2024
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) has inked a power deal with New Zealand’s Meridian Energy, which will allow the miner to keep…
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The top ten ‘S’ trends in ESG to watch in 2021
As the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) wave continues to build around the world, many are wondering what this year has in store. According to…
Great Bear Resources continues to hit shallow high-grade gold at the LP Fault
Great Bear Resources (TSXV: GBR; US-OTC; GTBAF) has released assay results for 22 holes drilled into the LP Fault at its Dixie project in Ontario’s…
Gran Colombia’s Segovia continues to deliver with over 220,000 oz gold in 2020
Gran Colombia Gold (TSX: GCM) churned out 220,194 oz. of gold from its operations in Antioquia, Colombia, 180 km northeast of Medellin last year, meeting…
Kirkland Lake Gold generates 369,434 oz. in Q4, meets 2020 guidance
Miner Kirkland Lake Gold (TSX: KL; NYSE: KL; ASX: KLA) produced 369,434 gold oz. in the fourth quarter of 2020, bringing the company’s 2020 production…
Geology Corner: The nuts and bolts of feasibility studies on gold
Of the 123 global gold projects with completed feasibility studies or ones being worked on, 50 projects are orogenic deposits; 24 are epithermal deposit types,…
JV Article: The next generation of gold prospectors
Last year was a busy time for Vancouver-based Kenorland Minerals (TSXV: KLD). At the end of July 2020, the junior exploration company made a major…
First Cobalt inks feed agreements for refinery starting in 2022
First Cobalt (TSXV: FCC; US-OTC: FTSSF) has secured cobalt feed amounting to 90% of capacity for its First Cobalt Refinery in Ontario. The facility will…
Orla tables updated feasibility for Camino Rojo with increased reserves, longer mine life
Orla Mining (TSX: OLA; NYSE: ORLA) has released an updated feasibility study for its Camino Rojo heap leach oxide gold project in Mexico. The latest…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 221: The future of assurance — building trust in a digital world, ft. EY’s Dean Braunsteiner and Eric Simmons
This week’s episode features EY Canada’s Dean Braunsteiner, partner, assurance, and Eric Simmons, partner, assurance, who discuss the increasing importance of non-financial assurance reporting. Dean…
Focus on the positive: M&A and strong metal prices in the year ahead
With rising Covid-19 infections, a new and more infectious variant of the virus, and a vaccination rollout slower than most would like, along with the…
Equinox tops 2020 guidance, produces 477,200 gold oz.
Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX; NYSE: EQX) beat its revised 2020 production guidance and churned out 477,200 gold ounces last year. With 136,400 oz. generated in…