Roskill’s Jack Bedder peers into cobalt crystal ball
Cobalt has more than doubled in price from US$14.75 per lb. in late December 2016 to over US$30 per lb., making it one of the…
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Orefinders assembles western Abitibi land package
Orefinders Resources (TSXV: ORX) is scooping up gold properties in Ontario’s Shining Tree district, near Lake Abitibi. The company will acquire three contiguous properties from…
Group Ten acquires claims in Stillwater complex
VANCOUVER — It would be rare to find a geologist who went through university without studying the Stillwater complex in southern Montana. The complex is…
Japan Gold drills Ikutahara in Hokkaido
Japan Gold (TSXV: JG; US-OTC: JGLDF) has become the first foreign company to be granted prospecting rights and a drilling permit by Japan’s Ministry of…
USGS identifies new uranium potential in southern US
VANCOUVER — The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates there are 39.9 million lb. of undiscovered uranium oxide resources in the Southern High Plains region of…
Renaud Adams invests in Radisson Mining
Veteran miner Renaud Adams, who recently sold Richmont Mines to Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) in a deal valued at about US$770 million, is…
Exploration Snapshot: Four junior explorers with active programs
The past year has seen a resurgence of grassroots mineral exploration worldwide for a wide range of precious, base and industrial metals. Below is a…
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 83: A nickel for your electric car ft. Hard-Line
This week we’re digging deeper into our commodity retrospective and outlooks for 2018. Matt talks the most recent news and notes, including the impact of…
TSX Venture logs slight decline, Nov. 27-Dec. 1
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index slipped 0.63% to a 789-point close. Gold touched US$1,300 per oz. before finishing at US$1,279.60 per ounce. LME inventories for…
Copper, nickel outlooks dominate LME Week
VANCOUVER — The annual gathering of London Metal Exchange (LME) Week provides a bellwether for the major trends in base metals and industrial mineral markets…
TSX slips, Nov. 27-Dec. 1
Canada’s benchmark index dipped 0.43% to finish at 16,038.97. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index fell 2.32% and 2.23% to…
US markets move higher, Nov. 27 to Dec. 1
The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its largest weekly gain since December 2016, buoyed by optimistic expectations that U.S. lawmakers were making progress on tax-cut…