First Nations group pulls support for Seabridge’s KSM
Citing the need for improved consultation, a First Nations group has pulled its support for Seabridge Gold‘s (TSX: SEA, NYSE: SA) KSM mine in northwestern…
Regulatory Issues
Brazil’s top court breaks Indigenous mining deadlock
Brazil’s Supreme Court has upheld a ruling allowing Cinta Larga Indigenous communities to legally conduct mineral exploration in four territories under temporary safeguards while lawmakers…
Colombia gold mine collapse kills 13 workers
At least 13 workers have been killed and another seven injured in a landslide at an open pit gold mine in southwestern Colombia — the…
Fortescue exec kept on job during sex-harassment probe
Fortescue (ASX: FMG) is keeping an unnamed senior executive at work while external lawyers investigate allegations of sexual harassment and bullying, energy chief Gus Pichot…
Ottawa scrutinizes China’s $175M Lithium Chile deal
Canadian junior Lithium Chile (TSX-V: LITH) and China Union Holdings (SZSE: 000036) face a potential national security review of their $175-million (C$243-million) Argentum Lithium transaction…
US opens vast Pacific seabed to mining
Washington is planning to auction off deep-sea mining leases near the Northern Mariana Islands later this year, advancing the Trump administration’s push to develop domestic…
$10B Canada power deal seen boosting Labrador mining
Canada, Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador signed a $10 billion (US$7.2 billion) non-binding agreement to expand the Churchill Falls generating station, nearly tripling its current…
Equinox Gold gains key federal permit for South Railroad, kicks off early works
Equinox Gold (TSX, NYSE-A: EQX) is starting early works construction at its South Railroad project in Nevada after it completed an important stage of federal…
American Rare Earths, Novex to boost US output
American Rare Earths (ASX: ARR) and metallurgy firm Novex plan to develop U.S. rare earth metal production using feedstock from the Halleck Creek project in…
Processing, not output, may decide metal shortages
Critical-mineral shortages through 2035 may depend as much on whether miners can reliably process and deliver usable material as on whether enough tonnes are mined,…
Savannah wins support for contentious Barroso
Savannah Resources (LSE: SAV) has secured fresh backing from local landowners in northern Portugal for the controversial Barroso lithium project, Europe’s largest, as the developer…
Sweden OKs Boliden’s Laver copper concession
Sweden rejected appeals against Boliden’s (STO: BOL) mining concession for Laver, clearing a key hurdle for a copper project that could double the country’s output…