Ottawa, Manitoba boost Churchill for mineral trade
Ottawa and Manitoba are increasing support for the Port of Churchill to advance rail upgrades, add critical minerals storage and push a northern export corridor for Canadian miners. The joint…
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Gold Fields doubles Windfall capex to $1.9B
Gold Fields (NYSE, JSE: GFI) says developing the Windfall gold project in Quebec still makes sense even though it may cost more than double a 2022 estimate. The company expects…
Mic’d Up JV: Endeavour Silver sees Terronera as a ‘game changer’ to hit targets
Endeavour Silver (TSX: EDR; NYSE: EXK) has started commercial production at Terronera in Jalisco, Mexico, a step CEO Dan Dickson says anchors its “30 by 30” plan – 30 million…
Xinka say ‘no’ to Pan American’s Escobal
A Vancouver group on Thursday delivered a petition with more than 6,000 signatures urging Pan American Silver (NYSE, TSX: PAAS) to respect the Xinka Indigenous people’s decision against restarting the…
US Spotlight: A Wild West rush for minerals – Part 2
Historic mining regions, including the American West and Alaska, are seeing another gold rush amid the Trump administration’s executive orders to “Make America Great Again” by scaling up domestic critical…
I-80 Gold resource positions Nevada’s FAD for sale
I-80 Gold (TSX: IAU; NYSE-A: IAUX) has released a new high-grade polymetallic resource at its FAD project in Nevada to help sell the non-core asset. The resource totals 594,000 indicated…
US plan to boost Africa mining ties needs work: analyst
Recent United States initiatives aimed at developing closer ties with resource-rich African countries to break China’s stranglehold on critical minerals processing are still a long way from paying off, according…
Sweden lifts uranium ban
Sweden’s parliament on Wednesday voted to repeal a 2018 moratorium on uranium mining, clearing the way for exploration and mining from Jan. 1. The move by Sweden’s unicameral national parliament,…
Texas Smackover sets grade high for lithium brine
Smackover Lithium, a joint venture between Standard Lithium (TSXV: SLI; NYSE-A: SLI) and Norway state oil company Equinor (NYSE: EQNR), says it has North America’s highest lithium-in-brine grades in the…
Bottlenecks slow US copper supply ambitions
The United States’ effort to build a secure domestic supply of copper is running headlong into environmental review and legal disputes – illustrating the tension between energy transition goals and…
Kore Potash weighs sale to advance Congo mine
Kore began a formal sale process after announcing in June it was seeking a potash-savvy operator and partner.
Site visit: Revival Gold shows ‘exploration sizzle’ in Idaho
BOISE, Idaho – An underground discovery hunt in central Idaho could shuffle Revival Gold’s (TSXV: RVG; US-OTC: RVLGF) development queue, CEO Hugh Agro said this week on a site visit….