Nickel price jumps as Indonesia’s top mine cuts output
Nickel prices rose for a fourth straight day Wednesday after Indonesia ordered the world’s largest nickel mine to sharply cut output in a move aimed at tightening global supply and…
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Roundup Video: Sixty North targets midyear gold with Mon mine restart
Sixty North Gold Mining (CSE: SXTY; US-OTC: SXNTF) plans to restart the past-producing Mon gold mine in the Northwest Territories by midyear after installing a 100-tonne-per-day mill at the site,…
First Quantum credit outlook improves on Cobre Panama progress, S&P says
S&P Global Ratings revised First Quantum Minerals’ (TSX: FM) outlook to positive from negative on Tuesday, citing progress toward restarting its Cobre Panama copper mine and stronger liquidity management. While…
JV Video: Troilus targets spring finance decision
Lenders have increased the proposed debt facility for the Troilus Mining (TSX: TLG; US-OTC: CHXMF) gold-copper project in Quebec up to $1 billion (C$1.35 billion) from $700 million as the…
Roundup Video: BC’s move towards permitting certainty
Victoria’s push to speed exploration permits, paired with a landmark approval for Skeena Resources’ (TSX, NYSE: SKE) Eskay Creek restart, is starting to rebuild confidence in British Columbia’s permitting system,…
Video: Rare earths’ outsized leverage
Rare earth elements may be obscure to most consumers, but they sit inside the magnets, motors and sensors that run much of the modern economy. In a four-part audio series,…
Roundup Video: Revival Gold focuses on Utah restart
Revival Gold (TSXV: RVG; US-OTC: RVLGF) is lining up two brownfield United States gold projects for the next leg of studies and drilling as bullion prices resume climbing. The developer…
JV Video: Minaurum’s Alamos lands 55M-oz resource
Minaurum Silver’s (TSXV: MGG; US-OTC: MMRGF) maiden inferred resource of about 35 million oz. silver at its Alamos project in Mexico’s Sonora state, published late last month, gives the junior…
Roundup video: BC must open land access, AME says
British Columbia should do more than that just impose fixed timelines for mineral exploration permits to restore confidence for prospectors and juniors, the head of the Association for Mineral Exploration…
Capstone strike ends allowing Mantoverde at full rate
Capstone Copper (TSX: CS; ASX: CSC) is preparing to restore full output at its Mantoverde copper-gold mine in Chile after workers in the operation’s biggest union ratified a new three-year…
VRIC video: Few new TSX listings suggest it’s early in cycle for juniors, Soar Financial says
The relative lack of new mining listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange last year – despite firmer metals sentiment – suggested the junior market was still in the early innings…
Anglo flags third De Beers writedown
Anglo American (LSE: AAL) is weighing a third writedown of De Beers in as many years as weak diamond prices persist and the miner advances asset sales ahead of its…