Will the Far North be left out of the critical minerals rush?
When Rio Tinto’s Diavik diamond mine closes in 2025, it’s going to put a major dent in the finances of the Northwest Territories. The mine, now 100% owned by Rio…
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Defense Metals reports best intercepts drilled to date at Wicheeda REE property in BC
Defense Metals (TSXV: DEFN; OTC: DFMTF) has received results for the final five holes totalling 1,079 metres from the 29-hole (5,349 metres) diamond drill program completed during fall 2021 at…
Big Ridge continues to intersect gold at past-producing Hope Brook project
Big Ridge Gold (TSXV: BRAU; OTC: ALVLF) has released additional results from its 25,000-metre, Phase I exploration drill program at the Hope Brook project in Newfoundland and Labrador. Hope Brook…
Sitka Gold intercepts 62 metres of 1.21 g/t gold at RC project in Yukon
Sitka Gold (CSE: SIG; OTC: SITKF) has provided assay results of the first diamond drill holes completed during its 2022 winter exploration program at the district-scale RC gold project. The property…
Fission Uranium updates PLS progress, arranges $50M ATM program
Fission Uranium (TSX: FCU; OTC: FCUUF) has provided an update on the feasibility study slated to be completed later this year for its 100%-owned Patterson Lake South (PLS) project in…
Teck strikes deal to earn into Chile copper project
Australia’s Golden Rim Resources (ASX: GMR) has executed an option and joint venture agreement with Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A/TECK.B; NYSE: TECK), Canada’s largest diversified miner, to develop the Loreto copper…
Kinross sells Chirano gold mine in Ghana to Asante in $225M deal
Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) is selling its 90% interest in the Chirano mine in Ghana to fellow Canadian Asante Gold (CSE: ASE) in a cash and shares deal…
Vital Metals blazing path to commercial production with Canada’s first rare earth mine
It’s a year of many firsts for Australia’s Vital Metals (ASX: VML; US-OTC: VTMXF) and its rare earth elements operation in the Northwest Territories. Following the establishment in 2021 of…
The view from England: Miners suffering from unintended consequences
As mining booms, the industry is suffering from the employment consequences of earlier bear-market bites. Most of us are aware from an early age that every action has consequences. Adults…
FPX Nickel scoping nickel sulphate production options at Baptiste
FPX Nickel (TSXV: FPX; OTC: FPOCF) is in the process of completing an internal scoping study to further evaluate the option to produce nickel sulphate for the electric vehicle battery…
Fortune Minerals confirms continuity of mineralization at NICO deposit
Fortune Minerals (TSX: FT; OTC: FTMDF) has released results from 2021 drilling on its wholly-owned NICO cobalt-gold-bismuth-copper property, including the confirmation of a new mineralized zone. The NICO project consists…
Sixty North accelerates Mon property earn-in, reports new nickel-cobalt discovery
Sixty North Gold Mining‘s (CSE: SXTY) proposed accelerated earn-in of the past-producing Mon gold mine in Northwest Territories has been approved by the project holder New Discovery Mines, which will…