RANKED: Top 10 new copper projects by mine life
Demand for copper, an economic indicator in itself because of its widespread use in wiring and plumbing, is expected to vastly expand as the world transitions to greener energy to…
Articles by Colin McClelland
Oroco rises on ‘robust’ copper resource at Santo Tomas in Mexico
Shares in Oroco Resource (TSXV: OCO; US-OTC: ORRCF) gained after the explorer said a deposit estimate for the Santo Tomas copper project in northwest Mexico “significantly” expands on 1990s studies. The…
Gold Fields buys half of Osisko’s Windfall high-grade gold project in Quebec
Gold Fields (NYSE: GFI; JSE: GFI), the eighth-largest miner by market value, has joined with Osisko Mining (TSX: OSK) to back the Windfall gold project in Quebec, one of Canada’s…
Army gives glimmer of hope for Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska
The United States Army is improving the slim odds for the Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX: NDM; NYSE: NAK) Pebble project in southwest Alaska which has already been blocked by environmental…
Pensana taps major UK investor to fund rare earths project in Angola
London-based Pensana (LSE: PRE) is being backed by one of the United Kingdom’s largest asset managers and the Angolan sovereign wealth fund to build a rare earths refinery in England…
Nevada King drills decades-high gold assay at old Atlanta project
Nevada King Gold (TSXV: NKG; US-OTC: NKGFF) says assay results show the highest-grade intercept in almost 50 years at the past-producing Atlanta mine in southeast Nevada. Reverse-circulation drill hole AT23WS-022…
Ivanhoe taps Glencore for US$250M to start world-beating Kipushi early
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) says it has signed off-take and financing agreements with Glencore (LSE: GLEN) to restart the world’s highest grade zinc mine at Kipushi in the…
Nighthawk soars on NWT gold project’s two-year payback
Shares in Nighthawk Gold (TSX: NHK; US-OTC: MIMZF) jumped more than 20% after the company said its Colomac project in the Northwest Territories could pay for itself in about two…
Collective Mining shares rise on new high-grade find at Apollo in Colombia
Collective Mining (TSXV: CNL; US-OTC: CNLMF) says it’s found another high-grade zone at the Guayabales gold-silver-copper project in Colombia. The company’s shares rose more than 8%. The discovery in…
U.S. markets decline Apr. 17-21 as recession concerns beat earnings
U.S. markets fell slightly as investors weighed strong corporate earnings and declining inflation against the fall of the index of leading economic indicators to its lowest point in more than…
TSX Venture index falls nearly 4% during Apr. 17-21 trading week
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 23.68 points or 3.7% over the Apr. 17-21 trading period to close at 614.2. Sigma Lithium fell the most by value, dropping $5.37 apiece…
Piedmont’s Tennessee lithium hydroxide plant to double U.S. output
Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ: PLL; ASX: PLL) says its proposed US$600-million lithium hydroxide plant in Tennessee would pay for itself in less than three years. The project has an after-tax net…