Canada’s Top Ten: Barrick leads this year’s list of miners by market cap
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) returned as Canada’s largest mining company on the Toronto Stock Exchange, displacing last year’s leader Nutrien (TSX: NTR), which…
Cameco Corp.
Cameco wins $300M tax refund, seeks hundreds of millions more
Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) has won $300 million back from Canada’s taxman in a dispute lasting two decades, but it says the full figure…
Cameco and Brookfield Renewable agree to US$7.9B Westinghouse nuclear services buy
Canada’s largest uranium producer Cameco (TSX: CCO) has announced a significant expansion into the nuclear services sector after agreeing to buy U.S.-based Westinghouse Electric with…
Cameco, Orano up stake in Cigar Lake uranium mine
Uranium producers Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) and Orano are increasing their stakes in the Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan by buying Idemitsu…
Kazakh uranium industry unaffected by unrest
The world’s largest uranium producer, Kazatomprom, remains unaffected by the ongoing turmoil in the Central Asian state of Kazakhstan, Reuters reported the Kazakh producer as…
Global uranium output tipped for growth as spot prices tick up – report
Worldwide uranium production will recover by 3.1% to reach 51,200 tonnes in 2021 as significant mines come back online following a Covid-19 hiatus, new analysis…
Denison bids for JCU (Canada) Exploration
Denison Mines (TSX: DML; NYSE-AM: DNN) is offering to buy JCU (Canada) Exploration Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Overseas Uranium Resources Development Company Ltd.,…
Cameco loses $65M in Q2
Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) is planning to restart its Cigar Lake mine in northern Saskatchewan in early September, the Canadian uranium major announced. The…
US markets hit all-time highs, July 23-27
Spot gold prices fell US$$5.20 over the period at US$1,223.95 per oz. in the face of continued strength in the greenback. The Philadelphia Gold and…
Fission Uranium’s Triple R deposit continues to grow
Despite uranium prices at decade lows and three years of belt-tightening, Fission Uranium (TSX: FCU; US-OTC: FCUUF) has increased the indicated resource at its Triple R deposit…
US equity indexes move higher, Jan. 22-26
The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 2.09% to 26,616.71 and the S&P 500 Index gained 2.23% to 2,872.87. The Philadelphia Gold & Silver Index jumped…
USGS identifies new uranium potential in southern US
VANCOUVER — The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates there are 39.9 million lb. of undiscovered uranium oxide resources in the Southern High Plains region of…