Mining’s top ten ‘S’ trends in ESG for 2023
To say 2022 was tumultuous is an understatement. War, inflation, climate disasters, market volatility: the past year was anything but business as usual for most. ESG, which had seemed firmly…
Regulatory Issues
Electra Battery Materials sheds non-core Canadian assets
Electra Battery Materials (TSX-V: ELBM; NASDAQ: ELBM) announced on Wednesday it will dispose of its non-core Canadian assets while retaining royalty interests in the properties. Under a 2021 share purchase…
Artemis Gold says delayed permits for Blackwater won’t affect construction timeline
In the latest update on the progress of its Blackwater project in central British Columbia, Artemis Gold (TSXV: ARTG) said on Tuesday that it is expected to finally receive BC Mines…
Lithium Americas to buy Arena Minerals in US$227M all-share deal
Lithium Americas (TSX: LAC; NYSE: LAC) is buying all the shares it does not already own of fellow Canadian Arena Minerals (TSXV: AN) in a deal that gives the Vancouver-based…
Ioneer’s lithium-boron project in Nevada moves into final permitting stage
Australia-based ioneer (NASDAQ: IONR; ASX: INR) said on Monday its flagship Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron project in Nevada has advanced into the final stage of federal permitting. The company said the…
Trevali sells stake in Namibia’s Rosh Pinah mine to Appian
Trevali Mining will sell its 90% interest in the Rosh Pinah zinc-lead-silver mine, in Namibia, to Appian Natural Resources Fund III. The embattled miner has had a difficult financial and…
Newcrest CEO Biswas leaves Australia’s top gold miner
Newcrest Mining (TSX: NCM; ASX: NCM) announced on Monday that its chief executive officer Sandeep Biswas is retiring from the role effective immediately, after eight years at the helm of Australia’s top gold…
EnCore Energy wins court challenge to South Dakota uranium project
EnCore Energy (TSXV: EU; OTCQB: ENCUF) has won a court challenge to its US$32 million Dewey-Burdock uranium project in South Dakota. The Oglala Sioux Tribe and watchdog group Aligning for…
Panama orders suspension of First Quantum’s giant copper mine
Panama’s government has ordered First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) to halt operations at its Cobre Panama copper mine after it failed to agree terms for a new contract with the…
Snow Lake investor battle brings raw energy to Manitoba lithium project
A shareholder rift over millions of dollars in executive pay at Snow Lake Resources (NASDAQ: LITM) is rattling the explorer’s plans to develop a lithium project in northwest Manitoba. Management…
First Quantum Panama copper mine deadline passes without a deal
The government of Panama has rejected a last-minute proposal by First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) to amend its US$375 million a year royalty agreement, casting the operation of the Cobre…
ESG and mining debate: cultish activism vs. modern business sense
Are environmental, social and governance (ESG) guidelines the bible of a shadowy priesthood of consultants, or are they just good for business? Those two sides took shape during an online…