A metal you’ve heard of but know little about: Scandium
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India invests $2B for SMRs as Saudi Arabia eyes nuclear power plans
Nuclear power continues to build momentum worldwide as India and Saudi Arabia this week advanced plans to further enter the energy sector, while the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust (TSX: U.U…
SuperCritical wins US licence for seawater uranium tech
Exclusive DOE technology gives startup a path toward commercial uranium recovery as US nuclear fuel demand builds.
US deploys AI agents to speed critical minerals recovery
A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research team has developed AI agents capable of designing and optimizing critical minerals recovery methods from industrial waste in days instead of the months…
MP Materials accuses USA Rare Earth of tech theft
MP Materials (NYSE: MP) has issued a lawsuit against USA Rare Earth (Nasdaq: USAR) alleging that its rare earth mining rival stole its proprietary magnet technology through an ex-employee. The…
Sponsored CIM Video: Diemme adds AI to mine filtration
Diemme Filtration’s Marketing and Communication Director and ESG team coordinator, Andrea Pezzi, in conversation with Canadian Mining Journal’s Editor in Chief Dr. Tamer Elbokl during the May 2-5 CIM Connect event in…
Honda halts $15B Ont EV plant amid losses
Honda is indefinitely suspending its planned $15-billion (US$11-billion) electric-vehicle and battery complex in Ontario, following the expansion project’s potential postponement first reported last week in Japanese media. The move marks…
Darlington SMR renews Canada’s nuclear maturity
Ontario has started construction on the first small modular reactor (SMR) in the G7, as rising power demand and tightening fuel markets test whether new nuclear projects can be delivered…
Breaking the West’s uranium enrichment bottleneck
With a full U.S. ban on imported Russian enriched uranium set to take effect in 2028, Western utilities are moving to rebuild enrichment and conversion capacity. That shift is reshaping the economics of the nuclear…
Interactive infographic: Global uranium costs
Cost is as important in the economics of mining uranium as it is with precious metals. But the cost of producing uranium oxide (U3O8) by the pound doesn’t neatly align…
Datavault AI launches $150M gold tokenization program
Data monetization company Datavault AI (Nasdaq: DVLT) is launching a $150 million gold tokenization program as part of a multi-component transaction with North American-based mining investment firm King Mining Capital….
Canada positioned for $200B clean energy boom, but faster approvals needed: report
Canada is well positioned to capture up to $200 billion in clean energy investments over the next decade, but how much of that opportunity gets captured will depend on system…