Eric Sprott takes $10M stake in Vizsla Resources
Vizsla Resources (TSXV: VZLA) has closed a bought deal private placement for 16 million units of the company at a price of $1.87 per unit for gross proceeds of $30 million…
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Auryn Resources to acquire Eastmain in $121M all-share deal
Auryn Resources (TSX: AUG; NYSE: AUG) is acquiring Eastmain Resources (TSX: ER) in an all-share deal valued at C$121 million. The transaction will create a new firm, Fury Gold Mines,…
Probe and Midland enter JV on Detour Gaudet-Fenelon
Probe Metals (TSXV: PRB; US-OTC: PROBF) has entered into a joint venture (JV) agreement with Midland Exploration (TSX: MD) on the Detour Gaudet-Fenelon project, located 75 km northwest of Matagami, Quebec. Under…
Chinese funding may resurrect Rio Tinto’s troubled Simandou project in Guinea
Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) is once again discussing the development of the controversial large-scale Simandou iron ore project in Guinea, as half-year earnings support an investment case for…
Chile’s Chamber of Mines rejects calls to privatize Codelco
Chile’s Chamber of Mines and unionized workers have rejected a proposal put forward by parliament members to sell state-owned Codelco, the world’s largest copper miner, in order to finance the…
Argonaut drills high-grade gold at Magino
Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR) has reported high-grade intercepts from its phase two drill program at the company’s wholly-owned Magino gold project in Ontario, 14 km southeast of Dubreuilville. The phase two…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 197: Iamgold CEO Gord Stothart on mining in Canada, tailings dams and working with local communities, part 2
This week’s episode features the second of a two-part interview with Iamgold president and CEO Gord Stothart at the Canadian Mining Symposium, held on Zoom on June 16, 2020. Online…
Gold price hits record high as US dollar drops
Gold continued its upward climb today and made history by touching record prices as worries over the coronavirus pandemic and intensifying U.S.-China tensions weighed on investor sentiment. Spot gold surged…
Chile’s Maricunga belt set to revive country’s gold industry
A wave of new mines in the pipeline on Chile’s Maricunga gold belt are advancing towards construction just as the price of the precious metal hits its highest level in…
Canada Nickel aims for zero-carbon emissions at Crawford
On Tesla’s second quarter conference call last week, Elon Musk entreated the industry to: “Please mine more nickel – Tesla will give you a giant contract for a long period…
Gold price tops US$1,900 per oz., nears all-time high
Gold prices topped US$1,900 per oz. for the first time since 2011, heading for its biggest weekly gain in more than three months, as momentum builds from flaring geopolitical tensions…
Northern Dynasty’s Pebble project approved after 15-year fight
Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX: NDM) has cleared the last environmental hurdle for its proposed Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum mine in Alaska almost two decades after developers first started considering the project. The…