Moonshot puts global metals scramble on display
Artemis II is set to lift off tomorrow, spotlighting the geopolitical race for the metals behind modern spaceflight. The flight around the Moon, without landing, will carry astronauts aboard the…
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PDAC Video: Mining’s real gap is productivity, McKinsey partner says
Mining can likely raise the $4.6 trillion (C$7 trillion) it needs to meet energy transition metals demand by 2035, but weak productivity may prove a hard barrier to cross, McKinsey…
Blackrock Silver lifts Tonopah West value by a third to $437M in Nevada’s top tier
An updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for Blackrock Silver’s (TSXV: BRC; US-OTC: BKRRF) Tonopah West project in Nevada lifts its value by one-third while more than doubling contained silver. Shares…
PDAC Video: Canagold drills to unlock New Polaris antimony potential
Canagold Resources (TSX: CCM; US-OTC: CRCUF) is drilling 7,000 metres this year at New Polaris in northwestern British Columbia to pull more antimony into the project’s economics, CEO Catalin Kilofliski…
EXIM nears decision on $2.7B for Perpetua antimony site
Perpetua Resources (Nasdaq, TSX: PPTA) says the proposed multi-billion-dollar loan earmarked by the U.S. export credit agency for its main gold-antimony project in Idaho has now entered its final approval…
Quebec may delay Horne smelter emissions targets
Quebec has opened the door to giving Glencore (LSE: GLEN) more time to ensure that its Horne copper smelter — the only one of its kind in Canada — complies…
Agnico buys 14% of Cascadia Minerals in Yukon
Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE, TSX: AEM) is buying 14% of Cascadia Minerals (TSXV: CAM) to support the Carmacks copper-gold project in the Yukon and regional exploration. Cascadia’s stock sales —…
Fireweed nets $61.5M to advance zinc, tungsten projects
Fireweed Metals’ (TSXV: FWZ; US-OTC: FWEDF) remote critical metals projects in Canada’s Far North are gaining increasing strategic and industrial backing as it receives a $61.5-million (US$44.1-million) investment to help…
Sigma Lithium soars on cashflow boost
Sigma Lithium (Nasdaq, TSXV: SGML) rose as the company reported a sharp rise in operating margins and forecast a surge in cash flows from new sales agreements. For the fourth…
Americas Gold & Silver sees 30% output rise this year
Americas Gold and Silver (TSX: USA; NYSE American: USAS) predicts production will climb about 30% this year on the back of rising output from its Galena complex in Idaho and…
PDAC Video: TRX Gold targets more gold, lower costs
TRX Gold (TSX: TNX; NYSE: TRX) is trying to turn a record quarter at Buckreef into a lasting lift in output as higher grades, better recoveries and a plant expansion…
Montage boosts Koné gold grade by 20% in Africa
Montage Gold (TSX: MAU; US-OTC: MAUTF) has lifted the resource and grade at Koné in Côte d’Ivoire, one of West Africa’s largest gold projects, as it prepares for a first…