Gen Z warms to mining as labour crunch looms
Canada’s mining industry is attracting more young people just as it faces a much bigger problem: finding enough workers to staff a new generation of mines. A new Mining Industry…
Specialty Minerals
Podcast: Mineral War — China’s grand plan to dominate metals markets, ft Tomasz Nadrowski
This week’s episode features portfolio manager Tomasz Nadrowski, author of Mineral War: China’s Quest for Weapons of Mineral Destruction, in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on China’s resource strategy over…
Friedland’s forgotten metal wins $400M US backing
After more than two decades, billionaire Robert Friedland’s plans of developing a scandium mine in New South Wales (NSW) look to be finally coming to fruition. Sunrise Energy Metals (ASX:…
Empire Metals shares jump as Pitfield titanium resource hits 8.2B tonnes
The junior says its upgraded Western Australian resource confirms Pitfield as the world’s largest titanium deposit.
US awards $162M to turn mining waste into critical minerals
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine projects for $162 million (C$225 million) in potential funding to recover critical minerals from mine waste and industrial feedstocks, part…
Blue Moon rejects short seller’s claims
Blue Moon Metals (TSXV: MOON; Nasdaq: BMM) is defending its main Nussir copper project after short-seller Viceroy Research questioned permits, financing and broader development strategy, while an analyst firm says…
Blue Moon adds tungsten, antimony projects for $20.5M
Blue Moon Metals (TSXV: MOON; Nasdaq: BMM) has acquired a set of 33 tungsten and antimony projects in the western U.S., including projects near its Springer complex, among the very…
Volta drills gallium 210m past Springer pit
Volta Metals (CSE: VLTA; US-OTC: VOLMF) traced gallium 210 metres beneath the current open-pit outline at its Springer rare earth project in Ontario, widening the mineralized footprint beyond what the…
US unveils $2B of financing commitments for mining
United States President Donald Trump on Friday announced more than $2 billion (C$2.8 billion) in financing pledges for critical minerals and other mining projects that he says will help the…
Perpetua makes tungsten discovery in Idaho
Perpetua Resources (TSX, Nasdaq: PPTA) said Thursday it has identified gold and antimony exploration targets with the potential for extensions of the permitted pits within its Stibnite project in Idaho,…
Editorial: Industrial power returns
For much of the past three decades, mining executives struggled to convince governments that minerals were strategic assets. They no longer have to make that case because the world has made it…
U.S. defence push hits China minerals snag: Reuters
President Donald Trump’s drive to eliminate Chinese critical minerals from U.S. defence supply chains by the start of 2027 is running up against the reality that domestic mining and processing…