Copper Mountain reports record Q4 production
After beating its production guidance for 2020 and reporting a record fourth quarter, Copper Mountain Mining (TSX: CMMC) is guiding a further 22% increase in production this year. The B.C.-based…
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Seabridge CEO talks about Snowfield acquisition
Seabridge Gold (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SA) has bought Pretium Resources’ (NYSE: PVG) Snowfield property in northwest British Columbia for US$100 million in cash, a 1.5% net smelter return royalty related to all production and…
Permit for Aquila Resources’ Back Forty mine denied
A U.S. judge from Michigan has reversed a decision by state regulators allowing Aquila Resources’ (TSX: AQA; US-OTC: AQARF) proposed gold, zinc and copper mine to go ahead. The ruling…
Taseko Mines to move ahead with Arizona copper project
Taseko Mines (TSX: TKO; NYSE-AM: TGB; LSE: TKO) said the Florence town council in Arizona has decided not to appeal the Aquifer protection permit (APP) for the company’s Florence copper…
Initial production at Kamoa-Kakula expected in less than six months
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) announced that underground development at its Kamoa-Kakula copper project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo mined and stockpiled 269,000 tonnes of ore grading…
Las Bambas blockades affect Peru copper shipments
In a Dec. 29 communiqué reproduced by state-owned news agency Andina, the Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) expressed its opposition to the blockades taking place on the Southern…
Anti-mining activists attack Curimining worker in Ecuador
A group of anti-mining activists attacked a worker that leads community relations for Curimining, the Ecuadorian company in charge of developing the Curipamba copper-gold project, held by Adventus Mining (TSXV:…
Demand for energy metals “will be massive” Glencore CEO says
At Glencore’s Investor Day in early December, CEO Ivan Glasenberg kicked off his presentation by talking about how the commodities giant is “steering a Paris Agreement alignment strategy while meeting…
Excelsior produces first copper cathode at Gunnison in Arizona
Excelsior Mining’s (TSX: MIN; US-OTC: EXMGF) Gunnison copper project in Arizona has produced its first copper cathode. The in-situ recovery (ISR) operation is expected to sell the first copper cathodes…
SolGold’s Nick Mather faces shareholder anger at AGM
Two years ago The Northern Miner named Nick Mather, president and CEO of Australian junior SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG), as its Mining Man of the Year for his role…
Northern Dynasty to challenge rejection on Pebble next month
Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX: NDM; NYSE: NAK) will in January submit its request for an appeal of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE’s) negative record of decision (RoD) for…
Cartier tables first resource for Benoist in Quebec
Quebec-based Cartier Resources (TSXV: ECR) has released an initial underground resource estimate for the Pusticamica deposit at its road-accessible Benoist property, 65 km northeast of Lebel-sur-Quevillon. The gold-copper-silver deposit is…