JV video: Yukon Metals CEO eyes ’multiple’ discoveries
Yukon Metals (CSE: YMC; US-OTC: YMMCF) is closing out its first full field season with assays pending from three fronts – the AZ copper, Birch gold-copper and Star River silver-gold…
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Grasberg halt hikes copper; Freeport in ‘penalty box’
Copper climbed on Wednesday after Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) declared force majeure on contracted supplies from its Grasberg block cave mine in Indonesia, tightening an already firm market. Three-month copper traded…
Washington seeks Thacker Pass stake
The Trump administration now wants an initial 5-10% equity stake in Lithium Americas’ (TSX, NYSE: LAC) Thacker Pass project in Nevada as it seeks to renegotiate the terms of a…
Hudbay halts Constancia mine amid Peru protests
Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) has temporarily shut down its Constancia mine in southern Peru in response to local protests and illegal blockades that have escalated amid wider unrest across…
Angola joins race for De Beers slice
Angola’s state diamond company Endiama has formally submitted a bid for a minority stake in De Beers, intensifying the scramble for influence over the world’s largest diamond producer as Anglo American…
Kinross Gold sells all of its Asante stock
Kinross Gold (TSX: K, NYSE: KGC) has sold its entire shareholding in Asante Gold (TSXV: ASE) at a discount, without providing reasons for the divestment. Kinross sold about 36.9 million…
Aura achieves commercial production at Borborema
Aura Minerals (TSE: ORA; Nasdaq: AUGO) says it has achieved commercial production at its Borborema gold project, its third operating asset in Brazil and fifth globally. In a news release…
Nevada Lithium jumps on Korean extraction pact
Nevada Lithium Resources (TSXV: NVLH; US‑OTC: NVLHF) jumped as much as 32% by midday Wednesday after South Korea’s Hydro Lithium agreed to test patented extraction technology at the Bonnie Claire…
Appian sells royalty, streaming assets to Versamet
Mining advisory firm Appian Capital sold two royalty and streaming assets to Canada’s Versamet Royalties (TSXV: VMET) for up to US$170 million in cash, of which $125 million is paid…
Mining Forum Americas: Taiwan war could reshape metals – fast
Colorado Springs, Colo. – The “Trumponomics” playbook – 10% base tariffs, a weak-dollar tilt and rising great-power risk – points to more gold upside and a messy reroute of mining…
Fortune Bay’s Goldfields project value jumps
Fortune Bay (TSXV: FOR; US-OTC: FTBYF) said an updated economic study for the company’s Goldfields project in Saskatchewan shows rising gold prices have resulted in a quadrupling of the past-producing…
Botswana wants De Beers control within weeks
Botswana is accelerating efforts to gain control of De Beers as parent company Anglo American (LSE: AAL) moves forward with plans to divest its 85% stake in the diamond giant,…