Chalice reduces board, costs amid nickel slump
Australia’s Chalice Mining (ASX: CHN) is the latest nickel player forced to cut costs amid a sharp decline in the metal’s price. Chalice announced a series of measures on Friday…
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Feds end Canada’s rail strike
Ottawa has stepped in to end a rare strike halting both of Canada’s major railways less than a day after it began. Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon on Thursday afternoon ordered…
Video: ‘Grade smearing’ top junior sector misdeed, Brent Cook says
Retail investors can struggle to make sense of drill results, but some junior mining explorers make things worse with misleading reporting practices that inflate the value of their projects, industry…
Teck-Glencore JV aims to jumpstart stalled Minnesota project
NewRange Copper Nickel is embarking on a series of studies over the next year to assess whether new mining technology and sustainability developments can remove permitting barriers at its key…
US Strategic Metals lines up potential US$400M loan for Madison cobalt project
US Strategic Metals has lined up a potential loan package of up to US$400 million to redevelop the former Madison cobalt mine in Missouri. The Export-Import Bank of the United…
Qatar joins US in backing privately held critical minerals play TechMet
Since inception, TechMet has invested more than $450 million into projects across North and South America, Europe and Africa.
TSX, TSXV miners raise most cash in a decade
The amount of money raised for mining on Canada’s leading stock markets the TSX and its Venture Exchange jumped 62% in this year’s first half compared with 2023’s same period,…
Video: Magna Mining starts bulk sampling at Crean Hill near Sudbury
Magna Mining (TSXV: NICU; US-OTC: MGMNF) is starting a 20,000-tonne bulk sampling program at its Crean Hill nickel project in Ontario’s Sudbury Basin for processing at Glencore’s (LSE: GLEN) Strathcona…
Top 10: Freeport-McMoRan, Southern Copper lead US miners in size, profits
Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) and Southern Copper (NYSE: SCCO) top the list of U.S. mining companies by market capitalization and net income as two titans of the copper sector. Freeport-McMoRan is…
Infographic: Yukon’s critical minerals resources grow
The Klondike Gold Rush and later exploration and production elevated the Yukon as a legendary source of gold. But the territory always hosted large critical mineral deposits, and it’s now…
Video: ‘Big bang’ in commodity demand set to lift miners, Prins says
Global miners are set to benefit from rising needs for “real assets,” Nomi Prins, a macroeconomist and author of the newsletter PrInsights Global, says in a new interview. Global geopolitical…
First Quantum starts up Zambia nickel mine, enters standstill deal with Jiangxi
First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) has begun commercial production at its Enterprise mine, set to become Africa’s biggest nickel operation, helping Zambia get closer to its goal of turning into…