PDAC: Ecuador vows faster mine permits under new law
Ecuador‘s new mining law revamps environmental permitting, creates protected mineral zones with security forces and reshapes how royalties flow to local governments as Quito tries…
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Cameco signs $2.6B uranium supply deal with India
Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) signed an estimated $2.6 billion (US$1.9 billion) agreement to supply uranium ore concentrate to India for use in the country’s…
Bolivia minister pledges ‘legal certainty’ for investors
Bolivia’s new mining minister is vowing to woo back foreign investors in silver, tin and lithium who fled two decades of Socialist Party rule. “We are going to work hard to provide the legal certainty…
PDAC: Canada must build processing now, panelists say
Canada has a historic opportunity to build new processing facilities in the country as modern mines get developed amid a global resource boom, attendees were…
PDAC: Ottawa sprinkles cash across 30 projects
Canada announced as much as $17 million each for 30 mining projects on Monday as another round of support linked to a Group of Seven…
Canada’s critical minerals push faces capital gap: RBC
Canada has channelled just 11% of its mining capital into critical minerals over the past 25 years, leaving the country behind global peers as demand…
Niger junta seeks uranium buyer
Niger is struggling to find a buyer for a large stockpile of nationalized uranium while trying to keep it out of militant hands after a…
Nevada tops Fraser survey as Ontario, Saskatchewan rise
Nevada has dislodged Finland as the best jurisdiction for mining investment globally while two Canadian provinces – Ontario and Saskatchewan – have climbed into the…
Panama growth hinges on Cobre Panama restart: report
Panama’s economy grew 4% in 2025, and business leaders say reopening First Quantum Minerals’ (TSX: FM) Cobre Panama copper mine is critical to lifting growth…
Chile’s right-wing pivot puts mining policy under microscope
Chile is entering a new political phase as a right-wing government prepares to take office, putting mining policy under renewed scrutiny in the world’s largest…
New Brunswick targets timelines in new strategy, minister says
New Brunswick plans to release a new minerals strategy on March 2 at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto ahead of…
Northern Dynasty tumbles on DOJ backing Pebble veto
Northern Dynasty Minerals’ (TSX: NDM; NYSE-A: NAK) shares plummeted after the Department of Justice filed a court brief in Alaska supporting the US Environmental Protection…