CHART: Copper price surge mints 23 unicorn mines
Tech venture capitalists invest in startups and get to call them unicorns. The official definition of a unicorn is a startup with a $1 billion valuation while still…
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Hudbay secures permit for Copper Mountain expansion
Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) has secured permission from the British Columbia government to proceed with a three-phased expansion of its Copper Mountain open-pit mine…
Macro forces driving metals jump still intact: Jefferies
Gold’s sharp pullback last week may have handed investors a new entry point into mining equities because wider economic forces driving the recent “metals melt-up”…
Copper is key at Rio-Glencore deadline
With the time limit for a Rio Tinto (NYSE, LSE, ASX: RIO) bid to acquire Glencore (LSE: GLEN) expiring this Thursday, The Northern Miner offers…
Kodiak Copper’s first MPD resource shows mid-scale potential in BC
An initial resource estimate for Kodiak Copper’s (TSX-V: KDK; US-OTC: KDKCF) MPD project in British Columbia positions it as a mid-tier open-pit project sitting in…
Osisko Metals surges on C$32.5M investment for Gaspé
Osisko Metals (TSX: OM) is set to receive a C$32.5 million investment boost from big names in the industry to support its development of the…
Arizona Sonoran soars on new copper ranking
Arizona Sonoran Copper (TSX: ASCU; US-OTC: ASCUF) shares shot to a historic high Monday after it released a study showing its Cactus project could be…
Codelco fast-tracks automation after deadly collapse
Chile’s state-owned copper giant Codelco is to fast-track automation at its El Teniente mine after a deadly collapse killed six workers, in what became Chile’s…
Hudbay halts Constancia mine amid Peru protests
Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) has temporarily shut down its Constancia mine in southern Peru in response to local protests and illegal blockades that have…
AI demand seen pushing copper price longer term
The copper price faces short-term headwinds from trade wars and weakening United States consumption, but longer-term demand from artificial intelligence and grid electrification is set…
Arizona Sonoran stock soars on royalty trim, support
Arizona Sonoran Copper (TSX: ASCU; US-OTC: ASCUF) is pressing its Cactus copper project in Arizona toward an updated resource and prefeasibility study (PFS) by year-end…
Evolve Royalties in $70M deal for Voyageur Explorers
Private firm Evolve Strategic Element Royalties is poised to acquire the Prairies- and copper-zinc-gold-focused Voyageur Mineral Explorers (CSE: VOY) in a reverse takeover valued at…