Imperial Metals speeds up work to reopen Mount Polley copper mine
Imperial Metals (TSX: III) is aiming to reopen its Mount Polley copper-gold mine in British Columbia, Canada, before the end of June, buoyed by high prices for the metal and a…
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Mining Indaba: First Quantum pulls trigger on US$1.3B Kansanshi expansion
The board of First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) has resolved to proceed with a US$1.3 billion expansion of the company’s cornerstone Kansanshi copper mine in Zambia, including the Enterprise nickel…
Two of McEwen Mining’s top execs step down
McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX) surprised markets on Friday by announcing that two of its top suite executives were leaving the company for personal reasons. Chief financial officer Anna…
Plunging metals prices expected to rebound in H2 – report
Enduring Covid-19-linked lockdowns in the world’s largest metal consumer, China, are negatively impacting demand from end-use industries and sentiment towards the complex, resulting in lower metals prices, a new report…
EPA deals fresh blow to PolyMet’s US$1B copper-nickel mine
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dealt a fresh blow to PolyMet Mining’s (TSX: POM) plans to build an open pit copper-nickel mine in Minnesota, by recommending that the…
Oksut mine halt casts shadow over Centerra Gold’s Q1 results
Centerra Gold (TSX: CG; NYSE: CGAU) saw its first quarter results hit by the suspension of its Öksüt mine in Turkey, where the adsorption-desorption recovery (ADR) plant has been out…
Gold Fields flags potential inflationary cost overrun at Salares Norte
Gold Fields Limited (NYSE: GFI; JSE: GFI) says higher-than-expected inflation levels have started eroding the contingency built into the US$860 million capital expenditure (capex) budget for its 100%-owned Salares Norte…
Q&A: SRK Consulting unpacks critical opportunities and challenges facing the African mining sector
SRK Consulting has built deep experience working in the African mining sector and has developed a firm grasp of where potential opportunities are and some of the critical challenges preventing…
Copper Mountain, Gahcho Kué receive MAC’s 2022 TSM Excellence Awards
The Mining Association of Canada’s (MAC) Community of Interest Advisory Panel has selected the Gahcho Kué mine, owned as a joint venture between De Beers Group and Mountain Province Diamonds (TSX: MPVD;…
Ivanhoe eyes Phase 3 expansion at Kamoa-Kakula in the DRC
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) has said that the Phase 3 expansion at its Kamoa-Kakula copper mining complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will increase its annual…
Deconstructing Ross Beaty: Exclusive interview at the Mining Legends Speaker Series
The Mining Legends Speaker Series kicked off with an inaugural in-person event in Vancouver featuring mining entrepreneur and Canadian Mining Hall of Fame inductee Ross Beaty and rising talent Maggie…
ESG standards’ Indigenous blind spot could threaten critical metals push
The Global Reporting Initiative is an ESG standard used by the vast majority of the world’s largest public companies to disclose their environmental, social and governance risks. But it only…