Sprott kicks off year with 100,000-lb uranium buy
The Sprott Physical Uranium Trust (TSX: U.U for USD; U.UN for CAD), the world’s largest holder of physical uranium is hitting the ground running in 2026 after it bought 100,000…
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Trapper emerges as Saga’s top titanium-vanadium plot
Initial drilling by Saga Metals (TSXV: SAGA; US-OTC: SAGMF) at its Radar iron-titanium-vanadium project in Labrador is revealing high grades at shallow depths that show its Trapper target rivals the…
NorthWest Copper finds shallow copper, gold in B.C.
NorthWest Copper (TSX-V: NWST) says drilling at its main Kwanika project in British Columbia yielded near-surface copper and gold in two different zones. Hole K-25-287 cut 47.5 metres grading 1.22%…
London Symposium video: McEwen touts Milei boost for Los Azules copper
Argentina’s pro-business shift under President Javier Milei makes it easier to move McEwen’s (NYSE, TSX: MUX) $3.1-billion (C$4.3 billion) Los Azules copper project towards construction, founder Rob McEwen says, provided…
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…
Editorial: London calling
The title track of The Clash’s 1979 album borrows the urgency of a BBC global news broadcast, the ones that used to proclaim “this is London calling.” The song is…
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…
London Symposium video: Canada needs ‘1939 moment’
Canada should re-take its crown as a global metals producer and rise to the challenge of the green energy transition by investing in smelting and critical mineral capacity, according to…
London Symposium video: Investors need mental discipline and viewpoint agility
Disciplined investors must carefully test geology, location and people while remaining alert to industry “shenanigans” and psychological traps across cycles, according to the head of a mining consultancy. Geology is…
YMP Scholarship: Mining’s greatest upcoming challenge? Another lost generation
The following essay was chosen as the winner of The Northern Miner’s 2025 Young Mining Professionals Scholarship. Ten years ago, in the face of considerable economic turmoil, mining companies across the…
TNM Blast from the Past: Another atomic age
The Northern Miner’s 1951 coverage of Eldorado’s expansion at Beaverlodge — reprinted below — captured a country at the centre of a new atomic age. Demand for uranium was accelerating…