Video: Uranium Royalty taps market rebound
Rising demand for nuclear energy has brought back uranium from a decade-long slump, creating ideal conditions for early-stage projects to increase their value, Uranium Royalty (TSXV: URC; NASDAQ: UROY) CEO…
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Top 10: Freeport-McMoRan, Southern Copper lead US miners in size, profits
Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) and Southern Copper (NYSE: SCCO) top the list of U.S. mining companies by market capitalization and net income as two titans of the copper sector. Freeport-McMoRan is…
Video: Cosa Resources targets discovery in untapped uranium corridor
Cosa Resources (TSXV: COSA; US-OTC: COSAF) plans on hitting a home run at the Ursa project, set in one of the last underexplored regions of the Athabasca Basin, CEO Keith…
Video: Marimaca Copper aims at low-cost production in Chile’s Antofagasta
At a time when most copper projects are struggling with soaring capital costs, Marimaca Copper (TSX: MARI; US-OTC: MARIF) expects its eponymous oxide project in Chile’s Atacama Desert to break the mould…
Site visit: Permit builds buyout promise at huge KSM gold-copper project, Seabridge says
Seabridge Gold (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SAKSM) has long been seen as a juicy takeover candidate for its huge KSM gold-copper deposit, but its remote, mountainous location in British Columbia, US$6.4-billion…
Video: Sandstorm Gold’s output set to double in five years, CEO says
Sandstorm Gold Royalties (TSX: SAND; NYSE: SAND) expects to double production to around 160,000 oz. gold yearly over the next five years, co-founder and CEO Nolan Watson said in an…
Video: Mining faces cash crunch following decades of neglect, Grosskopf says
Undervaluation remains a persistent issue for mining companies, particularly juniors, compared to other sectors like technology and biotech, SCP Resource Finance chairman Peter Grosskopf said in an interview this month….
Video: ‘Big bang’ in commodity demand set to lift miners, Prins says
Global miners are set to benefit from rising needs for “real assets,” Nomi Prins, a macroeconomist and author of the newsletter PrInsights Global, says in a new interview. Global geopolitical…
Video: Targa bets on Opinaca gold discovery as lithium focus dims
The record gold price has prompted Canadian-focused Targa Exploration (CSE: TEX; US-OTC: TRGEF) to change tack, CEO Cameron Tymstra said in an interview. Targa acquired the Opinaca project in Quebec…
Video: Junior market dominated by ‘the lame, the halt and the blind,’ says Rule
Over two-thirds of today’s junior miners are essentially worthless, says resource speculator Rick Rule. The problem is the market has trouble spotting the gems with high-quality assets, which often end…
Boyd, Roosen, Quartermain: It takes grit, invention, luck to make the big time
Perseverance, a focus on geology and financial discipline and some good breaks are what’s needed to make a mining titan, some of the industry’s leaders told a conference put on…
Video: Seabridge Gold seeks BC OK to keep KSM permits
Seabridge Gold expects to receive the “substantial start’ designation under British Columbia laws for permits allowing KSM, the world’s largest undeveloped gold project, CEO Rudi Fronk said in an interview….