Ero Copper sees resource growth potential in Brazil
New drilling at Ero Copper’s (TSX, NYSE: ERO) Furnas polymetallic project in northern Brazil has extended mineralization beyond the current resource model’s limits, reinforcing the…
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BHP loses bid to appeal Brazil dam disaster ruling
BHP (ASX: BHP) cannot appeal a U.K. court ruling that found the world’s largest miner liable for Brazil’s deadliest environmental disaster, tightening pressure ahead of…
Brazil court re-charges former Vale CEO
Brazil’s top court has reinstated criminal charges against former Vale (NYSE: VALE) CEO Fábio Schvartsman over the 2019 Brumadinho dam collapse, reversing a lower court…
Top 50 mining companies power through Iran war – up $250 billion in 2026
At the end of the first quarter the MINING.COM TOP 50* ranking of the world’s most valuable miners had a combined market capitalization of $2.41…
Altius acquires 9.9% of TNR Gold
Altius Minerals (TSX: ALS) has taken up a 9.9% stake in TNR Gold (TSXV: TNR) to further expand its investment holdings in companies with royalty-generating…
Canada key as Vale plans base metals profit surge
Vale‘s (NYSE: VALE) base metals business could generate more than one-third of the Brazilian mining group’s pretax profit over the coming decade as production climbs…
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,…
How Canadian mining can be great again
The mining and metallurgy industry has undergone a profound transformation since 1905, when Canada was producing six key metals – iron, copper, nickel, lead, aluminum and zinc…
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…
How Canada’s biggest iron project is almost unknown
In the remote wilderness of northern Quebec sits the largest iron ore project you’ve never heard of – MetalQuest Mining’s (TSX: MQM; US-OTC: MQMIF) Lac Otelnuk. Hosting 4.9 billion tonnes in proven…
Interactive infographic: 25 years of global mining M&A
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PDAC Podcast Day 3: Vale Base Metals CEO Shaun Usmar, Rick Rule, PDAC’s Jeff Killeen and more…
This episode marks the Northern Miner Podcast’s third day of coverage from the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference in Toronto. Host Adrian…