Wheaton pays $150M for share of silver output from Capstone’s Cozamin
Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX:WPM) and Capstone Mining (TSX:CS) have struck a deal whereby the streaming company will pay US$150 million for a share of the…
Volume 106 Number 23 Nov 9 – 12, 2020
QMX grows Bonnefond resource; adds underground inventory
The most recent resource update from Quebec-focused junior QMX Gold (TSXV: QMX) includes meaningful resource growth across all categories and adds an initial underground resource…
VanadiumCorp says Lac Dore is ‘one of the largest and highest-grade vanadium resources in North America’
VanadiumCorp Resource (TSXV: VRB; US-OTC: APAFF) has released the first resource estimate for the Main zone at its wholly-owned Lac Dore vanadium project in northern Quebec,…
Yamana to acquire Monarch Gold in $152M deal
Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY; LSE: AUY) is expanding its footprint in the precious metals-rich Abitibi region of Quebec by acquiring all shares in…
Editorial: China’s Five Year Plan prioritizes tech and domestic demand
As the United States posted its highest number of weekly coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic and Americans headed to the ballot box…
Commentary: How Olympic Dam went from mother of all digs to ‘debottlenecking’
A decade ago BHP Billiton was gearing up to dig the world’s biggest hole in the Australian outback. In 2011, BHP delivered the largest annual…
Quebec snapshot: Eight companies to watch
With a large landmass, favourable mining policies and a strong history of mine development and operations, Quebec is one of the world’s top destinations for…
Wallbridge advances Fenelon project in Quebec
Wallbridge Mining‘s (TSX: WM) flagship Fenelon gold project lies along the prospective Detour-Fenelon gold trend in north-western Quebec, 75 km west-northwest of Matagami. The 85.6…
QC Copper and Gold injects new life into Opemiska in the Abitibi
The Chibougamau-Chapais region, 750 km north of Montreal, is part of the largest Archean greenstone belt in the world. The belt, better known as the…
Top 20 mining companies by capital raised
The extraction of metals and minerals is a capital intensive endeavour. Mining companies require hundreds of millions of dollars, and in many cases, billions, to…
Chairman offers to take Kazakhstan’s Kaz Minerals private
Oleg Novachuk and Vladimir Kim, the current and past chairman of Kaz Minerals (LSE: KAZ), are proposing a buyout offer of the pure-play copper company….
Brixton teams up with Friedland’s HPX on polymetallic project in Montana
Brixton Metals (TSXV: BBB) has entered a joint venture agreement on its wholly owned Hog Heaven project with High Power Exploration (HPX), a privately owned…