O3’s Vizquerra powers Marban Alliance toward feasibility
O3 Mining (TSXV: OIII; US-OTC: OIIIF) president and CEO Jose Vizquerra has a simple goal. “My purpose, personally, is to be the first Peruvian to build a mine in Canada,…
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Hecla eyes early 2024 Lucky Friday restart after underground fire
The U.S.’s biggest silver producer Hecla Mining (NYSE: HL) expects to restart its idled Idaho-based Lucky Friday mine operations early in the New Year after a fire and a groundfall…
Manitoba declares itself Canada’s ‘critical metals Costco’
In announcing her Progressive Conservative Party’s new Critical Minerals Strategy in late July, Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson declared the Prairie province open for mining business. “Manitoba is like the Costco…
Beaver Creek: Osisko’s Windfall will ‘outlive all of us,’ says CEO Burzynski
Quebec-focused Osisko Mining‘s (TSX: OSK) chairman and CEO, John Burzynski, expects the company’s flagship Windfall project’s resource to double to a staggering range of 15-20 million oz. gold at double-digit…
Beaver Creek: Wide disconnect between equities and commodity prices offers buying opportunity
The discrepancy between mining company valuations and commodity prices is at its worst levels in decades, the Precious Metals Summit in Colorado heard this week. “This is probably the worst…
Beaver Creek: Mining tycoons ponder gold’s role in looming financial ‘reset’
Mining magnates Frank Giustra and Rob McEwen had a friendly audience yesterday at the Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek, Colo., as they outlined the key role they expect gold…
Beaver Creek: Critical minerals shine at precious metals summit
The mining sector, a longstanding pillar of the global economy and even more important now with rising attention to critical metals and secure supply in Western nations, is facing emerging…
Red Lake Camp keeps giving as Frank Giustra-backed explorer hits bonanza gold
Industry financier Frank Giustra’s first foray into gold exploration struck it big Tuesday, reporting bonanza gold grades of more than a kilogram per tonne at its Rowan property in the…
LithiumBank inks direct extraction tech deal for Prairies brine projects
LithiumBank Resources (TSXV: LBNK; US-OTC: LBNKF) announced Monday an intellectual property licensing agreement for direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology owned by G2L Greenview Resources. Effective from Sept. 8, the agreement…
Hudbay’s ‘enhanced’ Copper World prefeasibility gets mixed reviews
Hudbay Minerals’ (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) updated prefeasibility study for the first phase of its Copper World project in Arizona has improved its economics and extended the mine life compared…
The great platinum deficit: Council forecasts record demand in 2023
The World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) forecasts a record 1-million-oz. platinum deficit for 2023, both in absolute ounces and as a percentage of annual demand, amid a surge in automotive and industrial demand and stagnant supply.
TNM Drill Down: New Found Gold’s Queensway delivers week’s top gold assay
The top gold assays from Aug. 25-Sept. 1 come from Canada, Brazil and Australia. Drill holes are ranked by gold grade x width, as identified by our data provider Mining Intelligence….