RANKED: Top 20 automakers by battery metals spending
The global passenger EV market, including plug-in and conventional hybrids, fell short of 30 million units last year, but still showed robust growth of 18% year over year. In combined…
Battery metals
First Nations say equity key to faster approvals
Indigenous ownership in major mining and other resource projects could help accelerate permitting timelines in Canada while improving economic outcomes for First Nations, according to a national group. The First…
PDAC: Flow-through shares drive TSX dominance, Douglas Silver says
Canada’s flow-through share financing system underpins the country’s status as a dominant mine finance hub by supporting the efforts of some 670 listed explorers, Canadian Mining Hall of Fame member…
PDAC: Canada will be G20’s quickest on mining permits, Hodgson vows
Canada will lead Group of 20 nations with the fastest permits as the government’s Major Projects Office (MPO) advances projects to production within two years, Energy and Natural Resources Minister…
PDAC: Ottawa details $1.5B road, power fund
Canada officially launched on Tuesday a $1.5-billion First and Last Mile infrastructure fund that had been outlined in November’s federal budget to get metals from mines to markets. The earmarked…
PDAC: Ontario shifts metals strategy to defence as EVs stall, mining minister says
Ontario is pivoting from battery plant construction in its critical minerals strategy while it adds high-grade iron ore and aluminum to its list of important outputs. The previous strategy focused…
Zimbabwe export ban a temporary dent on lithium supply, says Fitch’s BMI
While Zimbabwe’s ban on raw materials exports is expected to tighten the global lithium market, its impact would not be as prolonged or profound as the Democratic republic of Congo’s…
Opinion: At PDAC, Canada is on the clock
At this year’s annual Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto, there is more on the line than usual. For the first time in recent memory, the conference,…
PDAC Podcast Day 2: US Dept of Energy’s Robertson, UK Deputy High Commissioner Prodger and more…
This episode marks the Northern Miner Podcast’s second day of coverage from the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference in Toronto. Host Adrian Pocobelli sits down with U.S….
PDAC: Ring of Fire roads due by 2030, Ford says
Ontario plans to start building all-season roads to the hyped Ring of Fire critical metals hotspot in June for a late 2030 opening target, though it’s not clear that local…
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 that investors as well as…
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 told at the Prospectors and…