TSX Venture Exchange inches higher, March 5-9
After rising as many as 24 points midway through the trading week, the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index levelled off at 828.9 — a 0.35% gain over the previous week. Shares…
Industrial/Specialty Minerals
Tianqi to build world’s largest spodumene converter
Tianqi Lithium Australia, a subsidiary of China’s Tianqi Lithium, has started building a state-of-the-art spodumene converter that will produce battery-grade lithium hydroxide in Kwinana, Western Australia. Initial production is expected…
Commentary: Apple and the vertical transformation of mining
In early February, Bloomberg reported that Apple Inc. was in direct talks with an undisclosed mining company to secure long-term cobalt supplies to support the mounting demands of the company’s…
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 92: The technology commodity redux (!) ft. Cobalt 27
Subscribe, rate and follow us on SoundCloud, iTunes, YouTube, Google Play, Stitcher or RSS Feed! We’re going high-tech this week with a focus on technology minerals and an update on the cobalt market. Matt is joined by…
Avalon steps up lithium hunt at Separation Rapids
Avalon Advanced Materials (TSX: AVL; US-OTC: AVLNF) has begun a new drill campaign at its wholly owned Separation Rapids lithium project, 70 km by road from Kenora, Ontario. It aims…
TSX Venture Exchange inches higher, Feb. 5-9
After falling nearly 90 points in the first week of February, the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index has levelled off, rising 0.2% to finish at 813.39. Shares of Gold Reserve rose…
US markets fall, Feb. 5-9
Gold closed at US$1,315.7 per oz., down 1.2% over the previous week. U.S. markets suffered as the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index fell 6.6% to 78.35, and the Dow Jones…
First Cobalt finds new mineralization at Keeley
First Cobalt (TSXV: FCC; US-OTC: FTSSF) has found near-surface disseminated cobalt and silver mineralization outside the veins that were the focus of historic underground mining at its Keeley project near…
New DRC mining code upsets miners
A new mining code in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that would raise royalties on metal production and eliminate a stability clause enshrined in the previous 2002 charter that…
Lithium Snapshot: Six juniors with active projects
With electric vehicle production ramping up globally, lithium explorers and developers are lined up for a year of substantial activity across the Americas, targeting both brine and hard rock deposits….
Facts ‘n’ Figures: World crude steel output soars 5.3% in 2017
The following is an edited summary of steel production trends for the year 2017 from the Brussels-based World Steel Association. For more information, visit www.worldsteel.org. World crude steel production reached…
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 90: Financing, facts and figures ft. Oxygen Capital & Deloitte
Subscribe, rate and follow us on SoundCloud, iTunes, YouTube, Google Play, Stitcher or RSS Feed! This week we’re talking cash, capital markets and industry trends in 2018. Matt is joined on the floor of the Vancouver Resource…