Moonshot puts global metals scramble on display
Artemis II is set to lift off tomorrow, spotlighting the geopolitical race for the metals behind modern spaceflight. The flight around the Moon, without landing, will carry astronauts aboard the…
Tungsten
Fireweed nets $61.5M to advance zinc, tungsten projects
Fireweed Metals’ (TSXV: FWZ; US-OTC: FWEDF) remote critical metals projects in Canada’s Far North are gaining increasing strategic and industrial backing as it receives a $61.5-million (US$44.1-million) investment to help…
Podcast: Reuters’ Andy Home on Strait of Hormuz, aluminum supply concerns, tungsten
This week’s episode features Andy Home, Senior Metals Columnist at Reuters, in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on the aluminum market and recent developments surrounding the Strait of Hormuz. Home…
U.S. joins $1T mineral security consortium
The United States plans to commit $250 million towards a new investment vehicle aimed at securing critical mineral and energy supply chains, as Washington steps up efforts to counter geopolitical…
Guardian taps NYSE American for Nevada tungsten
Guardian Metal Resources (LSE: GMET; NYSE-A: GMTL) started trading on NYSE American on Friday, using a U.S. listing to widen its investor base and push two Nevada tungsten projects toward…
Almonty’s high-grade South Korea tungsten mine resumes after 30 years
Almonty Industries (Nasdaq: ALM; TSX: AII) says its Sangdong mine in South Korea, with three times the global average tungsten grade, has resumed commercial production after more than 30 years. …
Sponsored Video at PDAC: Great Western fast-tracks Nevada tungsten drilling
Great Western Mining (LSE-AIM: GWMO) plans to fast-track drilling at its Defender-Pine Crow tungsten project in Nevada after raising about £3.25 million (C$6 billion), with new CEO Ed Loye targeting…
Canada’s weakness lies beyond the mine gate, MPs hear
Canada’s critical-minerals fragility lies more with what happens after ore leaves the ground than the ore in the ground, witnesses told a parliamentary panel this week. In the House defence…
First Nations say equity key to faster approvals
Indigenous ownership in major mining and other resource projects could help accelerate permitting timelines in Canada while improving economic outcomes for First Nations, according to a national group. The First…
PDAC: Canada will be G20’s quickest on mining permits, Hodgson vows
Canada will lead Group of 20 nations with the fastest permits as the government’s Major Projects Office (MPO) advances projects to production within two years, Energy and Natural Resources Minister…
US Antimony says Ontario project holds tungsten resource worth $4.6B
United States Antimony (NYSE-A: UAMY) said a new resource for its Fostung tungsten project in Ontario shows the deposit holds raw metals that would be worth about $4.6 billion (C$6.3…
Blue Moon buys former Utah gallium-germanium mine from Teck Resources
Blue Moon Metals (TSX-V: MOON; Nasdaq: BMM) has acquired a former gallium-germanium mine in Utah from a unit of Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A/TECK.B; NYSE: TECK), a move that furthers its…