Silver & PGMs Snapshot: Eight juniors to watch
Silver remains a prime target for mineral explorers and miners, and platinum group metals (PGM) such as platinum and palladium are of increasing interest due to their use in electric…
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Wesdome confirms high-grade gold in Falcon 7 zone at Eagle River mine
Wesdome Gold Mines (TSX: WDO) says it has confirmed high gold grades as it drills volcanic rocks near the Eagle River gold mine 50 km west of Wawa, Ont. The…
GMS: Aurora Hydrogen aims for low-cost distributed hydrogen market gap, says Dr. Erin Bobicki
Canada is a global hydrogen leader, yet there is ample potential to reduce, or even eliminate, the lightest element’s carbon emissions-heavy current production methods, says Dr. Erin Bobicki, a minerals…
Gatos Silver shares rise on revised reserve at Cerro Los Gatos
Gatos Silver (TSX/NYSE: GATO) shares rose almost 10% Monday despite the release of a revised update that reduced reserves at its Cerro Los Gatos (CLG) mine in northern Mexico by…
Kodiak Copper exploration results point to further size potential
The results from five drill holes released by Kodiak Copper Corp. (TSXV: KDK) have increased the mineralized area at the Gate Zone of the company’s 147 sq. km. MPD copper-gold…
Canada Nickel gets US$10M loan for post-feasibility work at Crawford
Canada Nickel (TSX-V:CNC; OTCQB: CNIKF) has secured a US$10 million loan facility with Auramet to continue advancing its 100%-owned Crawford nickel-cobalt sulphide project in northern Ontario following the release of…
Ero Copper shares rise on nickel discovery near its Caraiba mill in Brazil
Shares of Ero Copper (TSX: ERO; NYSE: ERO) rose by 9.4% on Thursday morning on the news of its discovery of a regional nickel sulphide system in the Curaçá Valley…
Arizona Sonoran Copper at an inflection point with new Cactus resource estimate
Arizona Sonoran Copper (TSX: ASCU) has published a maiden resource estimate for Arizona’s Parks-Salyer (P/S) porphyry copper deposit, immediately southwest of the flagship Cactus project. The P/S resource is on…
Foran’s ambitious net zero plans for McIlvenna Bay attract investors
Vancouver-based Foran Mining’s (TSXV: FOM) executive chairman and CEO Dan Myerson doesn’t want to build just one mine. He has designs on creating Canada’s next copper mining camp in the…
Equinox Partners takes a stand against mining’s nonaligned directors
When Equinox Partners Investment Management adopted a strict voting policy against industry directors who have served for two or more years but have invested less than two years of director’s…
Manitoba juniors look to capitalize on lithium fever
With lithium prices at a record high – around US$71,000 a tonne for lithium carbonate – and demand for green technology surging, a cadre of exploration and development companies is…
Juniors chart cautious path through rough terrain of current markets
The Northern Miner attended the Precious Metals Summit held in Beaver Creek, Colo., from Sept. 13 to 16, where explorers, developers and emerging producers of gold, silver, copper, and platinum group…