India factory closures weigh on De Beers diamond revenues
Anglo American‘s (LON: AAL) diamonds unit De Beers has reported another decline in sales revenue for the ninth sales cycle this year, as cutting factory closures in India weighed on…
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YMP Scholarship Fund announces 2021 winners
The Young Mining Professionals Scholarship Fund (YMPSF) has announced its 2021 scholarship recipients. A total of $125,000 in scholarships has been awarded to post-secondary students following mining-related programs in Canada….
GMS: Trent Mell on the green energy revolution and the problem with supply chains
The continuing interest in the battery sector was the focus of an in-depth discussion on the second day of The Northern Miner’s Q4 Global Mining Symposium, as the executive editor…
Harte Gold announces assignment of credit facilities to Silver Lake Resources
Australia’s Silver Lake Resources (ASX: SLR) has acquired US$63.3 million in credit facilities that BNP Paribas provided Canadian miner Harte Gold (TSX: HTR) for its Sugar Zone mine in Ontario….
Rio Tinto CEO, Mongolian PM talk Oyu Tolgoi’s future
Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) CEO Jakob Stausholm met this week with Mongolia’s Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene in the hope of ironing out issues threatening the future of the…
GMS: Anthony Milewski on trends and investment opportunities
We are not entering a supercycle for metals, but certain commodities will “have their moment” and those are the ones that will aid in decarbonisation, Anthony Milewski, chairman of Nickel…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 266: Southwest Athabasca to be ‘key producer’ of uranium mines, ft Fission Uranium CEO Ross McElroy
This week’s episode features Fission Uranium president and CEO Ross McElroy in conversation with Northern Miner multimedia producer Henry Lazenby. Ross goes in-depth on the geology of Fission’s Patterson Lake…
The View from England: Party time is upon us
The U.S.A. is celebrating this week but Scotland will follow soon after, and there are few nations on Earth that know how to party like the Scottish, especially when there…
SolGold delays prefeasibility study for Cascabel again
SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG) announced it will delay the release of the prefeasibility study for its flagship Cascabel copper-gold project in Ecuador. The mining company said the delay will…
Ghana backs Chifeng Jilong Gold Mining’s acquisition of Wassa mine
China’s Chifeng Jilong Gold Mining has received Ghana’s approval to proceed with the acquisition of Golden Star Resources (TSX: GSC), which owns 90% of the Wassa gold mine in the country’s southwest,…
Coal phase-out may take longer than countries are willing to admit – report
Thermal coal demand is expected to rise until the mid-2020s despite countries agreeing to phase out coal at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference, according to a new report…
Hochschild shares tank after Peru nixes key mine extensions
London-based Hochschild Mining (LSE: HOC; US-OTC: HCHDF) says it will fight “illegal” efforts by Peru to close and block extensions of its Pallancata and Inmaculada mines on environmental grounds. The…