Video: Mining innovation must redeploy tech like Lego
The industry needs to apply existing technology in new ways like using the blocks of a Lego kit to build several solutions, panellists at The Northern Miner‘s Canadian Mining Symposium…
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SolGold advances plan to sell flagship Ecuador copper project
SolGold (LSE: SOLG) said on Wednesday it’s making headway with the potential sale of its flagship Cascabel copper-gold project in Ecuador, as it has held talks with more than 20…
Video: TMX panel discusses hard ESG issues
Mining companies face difficult decisions about environmental, social and governance issues to attract new investors, according to a panel sponsored by The TMX Group at The Northern Miner’s Canadian Symposium…
TNM Drill Down: Snowline’s Rogue delivers best assays of the week
Our TNM Drill Down features highlights of the top gold assays of the past week (Oct. 13-20). Drill holes are ranked by gold grade x width, as identified by data…
Bravo Mining’s Luanga initial resource grows tonnages by up to 62%
Brazil-focused explorer Bravo Mining (TSXV: BRVO; US-OTC: BRVMF) shares surged on Monday after the company announced an initial resource estimate for its Luanga palladium-platinum-rhodium-gold-nickel project located in Pará state. The…
Video: Kinross Gold’s McLeod-Seltzer recalls adventures in South America
Catherine McLeod-Seltzer, the independent chair of Kinross Gold (TSX: K, NYSE: KGC), joined The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium on Oct. 13 in London to chat about her career. McLeod-Seltzer often found…
Horizonte Minerals in talks to fund nickel project overrun
Horizonte Minerals (TSX: HZM) said on Monday that it’s holding talks with major shareholders and lenders to solve the current funding gap for the company’s Araguaia nickel project in northern…
SQM buys 30% stake in Australia’s Pirra Lithium
Chilean lithium giant SQM (NYSE: SQM) has agreed to buy a 30% interest in Australia’s Pirra Lithium, a junior launched in March from the combination of certain exploration assets in…
Equinox nears Greenstone’s golden finish line
Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX; NYSE: EQX) is in the final stages of completing its $1.2-billion Greenstone mine build in northern Ontario, which is slated to pour first gold under budget…
IsoEnergy closes $36.6M private placement for uranium hunt
IsoEnergy (TSXV: ISO; US-OTC: ISENF) has closed its previously announced private placement raising $36.6 million to continue its hunt for economic uranium deposits. The company issued about 8.1 million subscription…
Video: Don Lindsay on Glencore’s pursuit of Teck and resource nationalism
Former Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A/TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) CEO Don Lindsay joined The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium in London, U.K., Oct. 12-13 to speak to Adrian Pocobelli, host of TNM’s…
Brazilian court rules in favour of Brazil Potash’s Autazes project
Brazil’s Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region ruled in favour of Canadian miner Brazil Potash’s Autazes project in the Amazon on Tuesday. Federal Judge Marcos Augusto de Souza suspended a lower…