Site visit: Saturn adopts locally rare heap‑leach
Saturn Metals (ASX: STN) is planning to build a large-scale heap leach operation at its Apollo Hill project in Western Australia, making it a bit of an outlier in the…
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Video: Streamex, Giustra raise $1B for crypto gold plan
Streamex, a New York-based cryptocurrency trading platform, joined mining hall of famer Frank Giustra’s company to secure $1.1 billion (C$1.5 billion) this month to put gold assets on blockchain. They…
Video: Bravo eyes PFS for $1.2B nickel-platinum mine
Bravo Mining’s (TSX.V: BRVO, US-OTC: BRVMF) Luanga nickel-platinum project in Pará, Brazil, has a solid investment case, president Simon Mottram says in a new video interview. A preliminary economic assessment…
Video: Agnico Eagle CEO vows to return unused cash, not chase weak deals
Sitting on significant free cash amid gold trading at record price levels, Agnico Eagle Mines (NYSE; TSX: AEM) would rather hand back surplus cash than chase marginal deals, CEO Ammar Al‑Joundi…
Video: Council sees central bank gold buying rising through 2030
Emerging market central banks will keep buying gold aggressively for the next five years to lessen their reliance on U.S. dollar assets, the World Gold Council’s senior market strategist, Joseph…
Video: Debt fuels takeover bids for juniors, SCP chair says
Mining companies are returning to debt after years of banks stepping back, SCP Resource Finance chair Peter Grosskopf says in a video interview. Banks, public bond underwriters and convertible-debt investors…
Rio picks iron ore boss Trott as new CEO
Rio Tinto (ASX, LSE: RIO) has chosen Simon Trott, head of the company’s iron ore unit, as its new CEO, selecting a 20-year company veteran to steer the mining giant…
JV Article: Surge Copper’s Berg project offers right metals, at the right place
If Surge Copper’s (TSXV: SURG; US-OTC: SRGXF) Berg copper-moly porphyry project in central B.C. were operating today, its production profile of 126 million lb. copper a year over a 30-year…
Spanish Mountain PEA lifts both NPV and capex
Spanish Mountain Gold’s (TSXV: SPA; US-OTC: SPAUF) rescoped preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its eponymous project in British Columbia’s Cariboo region boosts early cash flows but doubles upfront costs. Based…
Board cites poor drainage for Eagle gold leach failure
A Yukon Independent Review Board report blames the heap-leach failure at Victoria Gold’s Eagle mine last June on poor drainage that trapped water above a weak layer in the leach…
Faraday Copper jumps on BLM exploration plan approval
Faraday Copper (TSX: FDY; US-OTC: CPPKF) got the go-ahead from the Bureau of Land Management for the next phase of exploration at its Copper Creek project in Arizona. That pushed…
From Canadian Malartic to Cariboo, Roosen builds a $14B mining legacy
Sean Roosen doesn’t mince words when he says Canada needs to “stick to the family business.” The celebrated mining executive calls for a return to what he sees as the…