Commentary: Partnerships with First Nations key to Canada’s mining resurgence
If you are reading this on a cell phone or a computer, you have fueled the demand for the dozens of minerals that go into…
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Black Iron, Glencore discuss offtake for Shymanivske in Ukraine
Black Iron (TSX: BKI; US-OTC: BKIRF) and Glencore (LON: GLEN) are in talks to finance construction of the junior’s Shymanivske iron ore project in Ukraine,…
The Northern Miner Podcast – Miner Moment #20: Is Barrick still Canadian and does it matter? Ft Lassonde, Bristow
This mini-podcast features a clash of visions between Franco-Nevada chairman Pierre Lassonde and new Barrick Gold president and CEO Mark Bristow on the value of…
Cost-overruns sink shares of Nemaska Lithium
Eight months after the start of construction of its Whabouchi lithium project in Quebec, Nemaska Lithium (TSX: NMX; US-OTC: NMKEF) says it will cost another…
Bolivia’s door creaks open to foreign mining investment
SANTIAGO, CHILE — A first-of-its kind deal between Bolivia’s state mining company Comibol and Vancouver-based explorer New Pacific Metals (TSXV: NUAG; US-OTC: NUPMF) promises to usher…
United States Snapshot: Ten companies with projects on the go in the USA
Mining and mineral exploration in the U.S. has been on an uptick in recent years, thanks to higher gold and silver prices, and an easing…
Commentary: Mining in the digital age
Early traditional miners would have never believed that the industry tools of choice would one day shift from shovels and pickaxes to automation and artificial…
Continental Gold expands resource at Buritica
Continental Gold (TSX: CNL; US-OTC: CGOOF) has tabled an increased resource estimate for its Buritica gold development project in northwestern Colombia that also reinterprets the…
Editorial: Iron ore prices surge higher on Vale disaster
All of those supply and demand, and price forecasts carefully assembled in late 2018 for iron ore have become obsolete in the wake of Vale’s…
Kerr Mines targets 2020 production at Copperstone
Kerr Mines (TSX: KER; US-OTC: KERMF) expects to mine and stockpile mineralized material from its Copperstone gold project in Arizona in the fourth quarter of…
US markets post slight gains: Vale, Cleveland Cliffs, Buenaventura, Franco-Nevada, Peabody Energy
The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a marginal 0.17% gain to 25,106.33, while the S&P 500 Index ended 0.05% higher at 2,707.88. Despite a rising…
McEwen closes in on production at Gold Bar
McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX) will soon be pouring first gold at its new Gold Bar mine in central Nevada, just 14 months after…