Copper price eases nears record
Copper traded above $14,800 per tonne on Monday– equivalent to about $6.72 per lb. – and was close to its record high. Traders took profits and reassessed the outlook for…
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Sponsored Mic’d Up: Dundee Sustainable leans into arsenic-free gold processing
In the latest Mic’d Up interview, Northern Miner Group video anchor Devan Murugan visits Dundee Sustainable Technologies in Thetford Mines, Que., for an on-site tour with President and CEO Jean-Philippe…
Glencore looms over Anglo-Teck’s $1.4B copper prize: FT
Glencore (LSE: GLEN) could complicate Anglo American’s efforts to capture the biggest gains from its $53-billion merger with Teck (TSX: TECK.A TECK.B, NYSE: TECK) as the miners negotiate how to…
SW US: Anfield wants $50M for Utah mill
Developer Anfield Energy (TSXV, Nasdaq: AEC) will seek to raise at least $50 million (C$69.3 million) in financing over the coming months to refurbish and reopen Utah’s Shootaring Canyon mill –…
Opinion: Battery Passport 2027 – the EU rule that reaches back to the mine
A regulation aimed at batteries is about to make demands of the people who dig up their raw materials. From Feb. 18, 2027, every battery placed on the EU market…
First Mining Gold inks First Nations agreement
First Mining Gold (TSX: FF) has signed an agreement with the First Nations of Cat Lake and Lac Seul to develop the Springpole gold project in northwestern Ontario. The deal…
Lithium price: Fitch raises forecast, warns rally has outrun fundamentals
The most active lithium carbonate contract on the Guangzhou Futures Exchange closed at 152,500 yuan (about $22,500) a tonne on Wednesday, up 11% from July’s lows, as the stalled restart…
Antimony: The fire safety, defence and energy metal
What’s so special about antimony? Antimony is among a handful of metals that have been used for thousands of years. The ancients used it in cosmetics such as the eyeliner…
Zinc price jumps to 4-year high
Zinc climbed to its highest level since June 2022 on the London Metal Exchange (LME) as warehouse stockpiles drained to multi-year lows and mine supply cuts tightened the physical market….
Boliden’s $1.3B Nexa buy adds S-American zinc, silver
Sweden’s Boliden (STO: BOL) has agreed to buy Brazilian conglomerate Votorantim’s controlling stake in Nexa Resources (NYSE: NEXA) for $1.3 billion (C$1.8 billion) in shares, giving the European miner a…
Koryx drills nearly 1 km of copper in Namibia
Koryx Copper (TSXV: KRY; NSX: KYX; US-OTC: KRYXF) has drilled the longest continuously mineralized intersection yet at its Haib copper project in Namibia, adding support for a resource update and…
Treasure hunt – Sudbury: The Basin That Built a Mining Nation
Read the French version: Sudbury : le bassin qui a bâti une nation minière Watch the Video: English | French Born in cosmic violence, discovered along a railway and built by generations of miners,…