Gold price rises as Trump signals end to Iran war
Gold prices edged higher again on Wednesday to extend this week’s rally, as signs of de-escalation in the Middle East eased investor concerns over inflation and shifted their attention to…
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New F3 Uranium assays lift Saskatchewan project’s ‘credibility’: analyst
New drilling by F3 Uranium (TSXV: FUU) at the company’s Broach property in northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin produced several high-grade hits. Hole PLN25-219A in the Tetra zone cut 13 metres…
Iran war threatens aluminium supply as outages deepen, prices surge
The Middle East conflict could remove up to 3–3.5 million tonnes of aluminium output, about 5% of global supply, and put nearly another 7 million tonnes at risk, tightening a…
PDAC Video: Cost blowouts threaten juniors after financings, Marsh analyst says
Fresh financing is returning to junior miners, but cost blowouts, climate shocks and supply-chain failures can destroy value before first production, according to Raul Munoz, mining leader at risk advisor…
Podcast: Copper, sulphur and the Strait of Hormuz, ft Bloomberg Intelligence’s Grant Sporre
This week’s episode features Grant Sporre, Global Head of Metals and Mining at Bloomberg Intelligence, in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on the copper market and the potential impact of…
Ivanhoe stuns market with deep DRC copper output cut
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN) has slashed near-term production guidance for its flagship Kamoa-Kakula copper complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo, surprising analysts and resetting investor expectations. The company now…
OceanaGold finds high-grade gold in New Zealand
OceanaGold (TSX: OGC; US-OTC: OCANF) said recent drilling at its Wharekirauponga deposit in New Zealand points to a new high-grade zone emerging outside current reserves. Highlight hole WKP144A cut 5.4…
Glencore seeks Canada funding for copper smelter
Glencore (LSE: GLEN) said it’s seeking Canadian government funding to modernize its copper processing plants in Quebec – including the century-old Horne smelter and a sister refinery in Montreal. The…
Canada key as Vale plans base metals profit surge
Vale‘s (NYSE: VALE) base metals business could generate more than one-third of the Brazilian mining group’s pretax profit over the coming decade as production climbs and efficiencies kick in, executives…
Moonshot puts global metals scramble on display
Artemis II is set to lift off tomorrow, spotlighting the geopolitical race for the metals behind modern spaceflight. The flight around the Moon, without landing, will carry astronauts aboard the…
PDAC Video: Mining’s real gap is productivity, McKinsey partner says
Mining can likely raise the $4.6 trillion (C$7 trillion) it needs to meet energy transition metals demand by 2035, but weak productivity may prove a hard barrier to cross, McKinsey…
CleanTech pegs Chile lithium project value at $1.37B
CleanTech Lithium (AIM: CTL) has delivered a pre-feasibility study for its Laguna Verde project in Chile outlining a $1.37 billion pre-tax net present value and a 25-year mine life. The…
Blackrock Silver lifts Tonopah West value by a third to $437M in Nevada’s top tier
An updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for Blackrock Silver’s (TSXV: BRC; US-OTC: BKRRF) Tonopah West project in Nevada lifts its value by one-third while more than doubling contained silver. Shares…
PDAC Video: Canagold drills to unlock New Polaris antimony potential
Canagold Resources (TSX: CCM; US-OTC: CRCUF) is drilling 7,000 metres this year at New Polaris in northwestern British Columbia to pull more antimony into the project’s economics, CEO Catalin Kilofliski…
EXIM nears decision on $2.7B for Perpetua antimony site
Perpetua Resources (Nasdaq, TSX: PPTA) says the proposed multi-billion-dollar loan earmarked by the U.S. export credit agency for its main gold-antimony project in Idaho has now entered its final approval…
The Northern Miner Podcast
Podcast: Copper, sulphur and the Strait of Hormuz, ft Bloomberg Intelligence’s Grant Sporre
Podcast: Reuters’ Andy Home on Strait of Hormuz, aluminum supply concerns, tungsten
Podcast: ‘The bottleneck is people’ — Franco-Nevada CEO Paul Brink on mining education
Podcast: Battery metals are back, ft MINING.com’s Frik Els on the EV market
Opinion/Commentary
Global Mining Symposium
London Symposium: Ontario’s focus on fast-track, refining wins industry praise
Ontario’s push to OK major projects in less than two years and keep more mineral processing at home stunned industry heavyweights at The Northern Miner’s International Metals Symposium in London. “We’re moving with speed,” provincial Energy and Mines Minister Stephen Lecce…
London Symposium video: Rick Rule on gold
The surging gold price over the past two years marks a catch-up based on a bull market going back to 2000 that few recognized then, veteran investor Rick Rule says…
London Symposium video: Gold has room to run
The sustained gold price could attract a new wave of retail investors including cryptocurrency backers and technology stock holders, gold company executives say in a new video. Bullion touched a…