Kazatomprom plans 9% uranium output rise this year
Kazatomprom (LSE: KAP), the world’s top uranium producer, forecasts output will rise about 9% to 71.5 to 75.4 million lb. this year compared to last year. The increase is mostly…
Articles by Blair McBride
High metal prices don’t equal more demand: BMO
Metals demand in the global industrial economy has been soft since November, despite rising prices across most metals over the past year and manufacturing expansion at its highest level since…
Sprott soars on 500,000-lb uranium buy
The Sprott Physical Uranium Trust (TSX: U.U for USD; U.UN for CAD) continues its new year shopping spree after it purchased 500,000 lb. of uranium oxide (U3O8) on Tuesday, its…
Equinox closes $1B Brazil mines sale to China’s CMOC
Equinox Gold (TSX, NYSE-A: EQX) has closed the sale of its Brazilian operations to a subsidiary of China’s CMOC Group for up to $1 billion (C$1.4 billion). The transaction covers…
ERG earmarks $1B for Kazakhstan operations
Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) plans to invest more than $1 billion in its mining and metallurgical assets in Kazakhstan, the largest investment in ERG’s projects in the Central Asian country…
YMP’s Eira Thomas Award: Geology, finance fuel Liu
Vicky Liu started at UBC with the “naïve science student aim” of potentially going into medicine, but geology pulled her in. “It became really clear to me about a year or…
Founders’ Lower Antino emerges as strong gold target
Drilling at Founders Metals’ (TSXV: FDR; US-OTC: FDMIF) Antino project in southeast Suriname confirms the Lower Antino target is forming as a significant gold prospect to complement the main Upper Antino…
Thesis Gold’s Steve assays may expand resource in BC
Thesis Gold (TSXV: TAU; US-OTC: THSGF) shares surged to an almost four-year high after drilling in the Steve zone showed potential resource growth at its Lawyers-Ranch project in British Columbia….
Centerra Gold PEA values Kemess project at $1.1B
Centerra Gold (TSX: CG; NYSE: CGAU) shares soared to a historic high Tuesday after a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) valued the company’s Kemess copper-gold project in British Columbia at $1.1…
Gold, silver spike amid Trump’s Greenland tariff threats
Gold and silver hit all-time highs after United States President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on European countries as pressure for a deal so the U.S. can purchase Greenland….
Maaden invests $110B in Saudi bid to be mining giant
Saudi Arabia’s Maaden plans to invest $110 billion into metals and mining over the next decade, the latest move by the state-owned miner as it aggressively expands in the sector….
Energy Fuels eyes top Western rare earths output
A new bankable feasibility study for Energy Fuels’ (TSX: EFR; NYSE: UUUU) White Mesa mill in Utah suggests the plant could become one of the biggest producers of separated rare…