Video: Wheaton Precious’s Smallwood on ‘most active deal-making year’
Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX: WPM; NYSE: WPM; LSE: WPM) is celebrating one of its most active deal-making years, clinching eight transactions with over US$1 billion…
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Technology becoming a hot commodity among miners, says law firm
The mining sector’s recent shift towards adopting technology to tackle rising costs is turning digital intellectual property into a valuable commodity in its own right,…
Exclusive: Record gold price a product of global risks, Barrick CEO Bristow says
The price of gold hit new records this week as concerns mounted about slowing growth in China, Europe and the United States even as stock…
Video: Mazumdar highlights sector’s challenges; need for sentiment shift
Of the many challenges facing the mining sector right now, the biggest one is investor sentiment, says Joe Mazumdar, mining analyst, editor and writer of…
VRIC: Gold set to gain as shine comes off US dollar
Escalating U.S. debt and a global move away from the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency presents opportunity for gold and a complex landscape…
Vale Base Metals in search of new CEO
Vale Base Metals says that Deshnee Naidoo will step down from her position as CEO at the end of March. The $26-billion copper and nickel…
Ivanhoe Electric JV kicks off Saudi exploration campaign
Ivanhoe Electric (TSX: IE; NYSE-AM) has kicked off one of the biggest mineral exploration programs ever in oil-rich Saudi Arabia with its 50/50 joint venture…
National security-driven policy decisions to recast critical minerals space in 2024
While governments around the world are beginning to understand the strategic importance of critical minerals, miners may struggle in 2024 to position themselves to benefit…
Letter to editor: Block pro-Hamas demos, McEwen says
As an eighth generation Canadian and a proud Member of the Order of Canada, I am appalled by our city government in Toronto, and of…
Idris Elba film a gold-infused global adventure through culture, history and industry
Actor Idris Elba takes audiences on a global journey about gold in a new documentary from the World Gold Council, Gold: A Story of Beauty,…
CMS: Friedland mocks lithium but touts battery tech
Robert Friedland, billionaire founder and executive co-chair of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN), criticized lithium mining at a London conference, ridiculed the West’s green energy transition and…
TNM Drill Down: Year’s best nickel results YTD found in Australia, Canada
Building on our popular weekly TNM Drill Down feature ranking the best gold assays of the week, The Northern Miner has compiled the top 10 drill results…