Spotlight: Global Battery Metals 1
With structural market deficits projected to grow for most battery metals over the next decade, companies are scrambling to find and build more supply. Here are four companies with significant…
Exploration
Graphite projects outside China face long road
Developers in Canada, Africa and Australia are advancing a new wave of graphite projects aimed at supplying the battery sector even as prices and long development timelines test the economics…
JV article: Great Pacific Gold sharpens focus in Papua New Guinea
Great Pacific Gold (TSXV: GPAC; US-OTC: GPGCF) is tightening its focus on Papua New Guinea and advancing drilling at its Wild Dog gold-copper project after completing a year of portfolio…
Osisko’s Gaspé revamp ties history to copper’s surge
For Osisko Metals (TSX: OM; US-OTC: OMZNF) chief operating officer Jeff Hussey, life has a way of repeating itself. Three decades ago, Hussey was hired by Toronto-based mining giant Noranda to work as a…
Canada’s critical minerals push faces capital gap: RBC
Canada has channelled just 11% of its mining capital into critical minerals over the past 25 years, leaving the country behind global peers as demand for strategic resources accelerates, a…
Nevada tops Fraser survey as Ontario, Saskatchewan rise
Nevada has dislodged Finland as the best jurisdiction for mining investment globally while two Canadian provinces – Ontario and Saskatchewan – have climbed into the top three, a new survey…
Sitka Gold update puts RC among biggest deposits in Yukon’s Tombstone belt
Updated resources for Sitka Gold’s (TSX-V: SIG; US-OTC: SITKF) RC project in the Yukon have more than doubled inferred ounces, putting the property on course to become the Tombstone gold belt’s…
Mexican security risks highlighted in new reports
Escalating security risks and a legacy of lengthy project approvals are increasing investor scrutiny of mining exposure to Mexico, TD Cowen says. Recent incidents linked to cartel activity — such…
Denison builds Canada’s first in-situ uranium mine
Denison Mines (TSX: DML) plans to start constructing its Phoenix uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan in March, the country’s initial in-situ recovery (ISR) operation for the nuclear fuel. The $419-million…
Omai Gold weighs Wenot ‘superpit’ potential as drills hunt for growth
Omai Gold Mines (TSXV: OMG; US-OTC: OMGGF) on Wednesday reported deep, higher-grade assays from its Wenot deposit at the namesake Guyana project. Shares rose. Hole 25ODD-119W returned 14.6 metres grading…
Roundup Video: Relevant Gold drills Wyoming’s long-ignored gold belt
Relevant Gold (TSXV: RGC; US-OTC: RGCCF) plans a 20,000-metre drill campaign this year as it tries to prove up what CEO Rob Bergmann calls an “American Abitibi” – a largely…
Quick payback seen for Yukon’s Coffee gold project
Newmont (NYSE: NEM)-backed developer Fuerte Metals (TSXV: FMT; US-OTC: FUEMF) says it would need barely a year at current gold prices to recoup the C$983 million ($718 million) initial capital…