Deep sea miner TMC plans to be ready to apply for licence
Canada’s The Metals Company (NASDAQ: TMC) plans to be ready to apply for a licence to start mining the seabed before the end of this…
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The Metals Company faces complaint to SEC over deep sea mining plans
The Metals Company (NASDAQ: TMC) is under fire from three civil society groups for its deep sea mining project in the Clarion Clipperton zone of…
Lifezone produces metal from Kabanga samples in successful ‘Hydromet’ test
Lifezone Metals (NYSE: LZM) has produced nickel, copper and cobalt cathode materials from concentrates derived from borehole core samples at the company’s Kabanga project in…
Vale Metals appoints mining veteran Shaun Usmar as CEO
Vale Base Metals, Vale‘s (NYSE: VALE) Canadian-based spinout of its metals business created last year, has appointed mining veteran Shaun Usmar as its new chief…
Seabed mining body meets amid rising pressure for code
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) kicked off on Monday a two-week meeting expected to be pivotal as the UN body works on the world’s initial…
Canada’s resources not enough to ride energy transition wave: Ian London
London argues that Canada urgently needs to establish commercialization hubs to produce finished products like batteries, permanent magnets, and cathodes.
OTC-listed Chilean Cobalt inks Glencore offtake deal
Less than a month after landing a potential debt financing deal to redevelop its past-producing La Cobaltera project in northern Chile, Chilean Cobalt (US-OTC: COBA)…
Friedland, McEwen back Power Nickel’s oversubscribed $20M funding
Canadian explorer Power Nickel (TSX-V: PNPN) has closed its recent $20 million “oversubscribed” financing round backed by billionaire investor Robert Friedland and mining veteran Rob…
Sacked Nickel 28 CEO repays $3.2M
The CEO of a Canadian company with a small stake in a Papua New Guinea (PNG) nickel-cobalt mine is repaying about $3.2 million in shares…
Chilean Cobalt lines up potential US$317M loan from EXIM Bank
The United States Export-Import Bank has signed a letter of interest to back Philadelphia-based critical minerals explorer Chilean Cobalt (US-OTC: COBA) with US$317.4 million in…
Canada’s Cornish Metals to sell Nickel King asset
Cornish Metals (TSXV: CUSN; LSE: CUSN) is selling its Nickel King property in the Northwest Territories to Northera Resources for up to US$6 million to…
Ivanhoe Electric refutes Ma’aden share sale claims
Ivanhoe Electric (NYSE-AM, TSX: IE) addressed on Thursday what it said are misleading media headlines claiming that its joint venture partner, Saudi Arabian miner Ma’aden,…