Obituary: Dale Corman remembered as tireless builder
During times that demand mining industry leadership as metals rise in global importance, Canada has lost one of its trailblazers of precious and critical metals. Dale Corman, leader of numerous…
Articles by Blair McBride
Breaking the West’s uranium enrichment bottleneck
With a full U.S. ban on imported Russian enriched uranium set to take effect in 2028, Western utilities are moving to rebuild enrichment and conversion capacity. That shift is reshaping the economics of the nuclear…
Newmont-backed Awalé drills new gold zone at Odienné
Drilling at Awalé Resources’ (TSXV: ARIC; US-OTC: AWLRF) Odienné copper-gold project in northwest Côte d’Ivoire has uncovered a new zone in near-surface gold mineralization at its Fremen target. Highlight hole SSAC-08 cut 17 metres…
Interactive infographic: Global uranium costs
Cost is as important in the economics of mining uranium as it is with precious metals. But the cost of producing uranium oxide (U3O8) by the pound doesn’t neatly align…
Arizona Metals tanks on rare negative-value PEA for Kay copper-zinc mine
Arizona Metals (TSX: AMC; US-OTC: AZMCF) shares collapsed to a multi-year low Thursday after a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Kay polymetallic project yielded a negative net present value…
Trident’s gold assays reveal ex-Cameco site’s promise in Saskatchewan where yellow metal is often outshone
Trident Resources’ (TSXV: ROCK; US-OTC: TRDTF) shares surged to a multi-year peak on high-grade drill results from its brownfield Contact Lake project in northern Saskatchewan, showing the potential of the…
Boroo eyes buying landslide-scarred former Eagle gold mine in Yukon
Private investment holding company Boroo could be preparing to buy the former Eagle Mine site in Yukon, almost two years after a landslide forced its closure. The firm has entered…
Montana explorer Silver Bow Mining eyes $50M IPO
Montana-focused Silver Bow Mining aims to raise roughly $50 million (C$68 million) in its initial public offering Wednesday on the NYSE-American exchange. The private exploration company plans to list about…
Myriad builds uranium district as report shows scale
A merger is set to hand Myriad Uranium (CSE: M; US-OTC: MYRUF) a huge district under its Copper Mountain umbrella in Wyoming while a new report compiles decades of historical…
World’s No. 6 uranium miner starts output in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan’s little known but globally significant state uranium miner Navoiyuran has started commercial production at its Qizilkok project in the country’s central Navoi region. Qizilkok hosts 9,400 tonnes of…
Assays, permits spur BMC’s $1B zinc-copper KZK project
BMC Minerals’ (ASX: BMC) has hit the ground running this spring, with drills cutting high-grade massive sulphide mineralization in the Krakatoa zone at its Kudz Ke Kayah (KZK) zinc-lead-copper project…
USA Rare Earth boosts Western supply chain in $2.8B deal for Brazil producer
USA Rare Earth (Nasdaq: USAR) plans to acquire Brazilian rare earths producer Serra Verde Group for a total value of about $2.8 billion, a move that could position the new…