Omai soars on resource update in Guyana
Omai Gold Mines (TSXV: OMG; US-OTC: OMGGF) has lifted its contained gold by about 22% at its eponymous project in Guyana while upgrading about half the resource into stronger categories….
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American Eagle bids for Pacific Booker to add BC asset
Canadian explorer American Eagle Gold (TSXV: AE; US-OTC: AMEGF) offered to buy Pacific Booker Minerals (TSXV: BKM; NYSE-MKT: PBM), arguing that the unsolicited deal offers a “new path forward” for…
Aura OKs Guatemala gold build with higher capex
Aura Minerals (Nasdaq: AUGO) is proceeding to build its Era Dorada project in Guatemala, marking an expansion into Central America, after increasing a capital cost forecast by as much as…
Angola flooding closes African copper export route
Flooding in Angola has halted rail traffic along the Lobito Corridor, disrupting a key export route for copper and cobalt from Central Africa and raising the prospect of supply bottlenecks…
Kodal ships record lithium from Bougouni in Mali
West Africa-focused Kodal Minerals (LSE: KOD) reported on Tuesday higher production, shipments and revenue at its Bougouni lithium mine in Mali in the first three months of the year, marking…
M&A: $2.4B Aus coal deal sees Yancoal buy Kestrel mine
Yancoal expands in Queensland with Kestrel buy, boosting scale and premium metallurgical coal output.
Prolonged Hormuz Strait closure would have ‘profound’ impact on mining: Friedland
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN) founder and co-chairman Robert Friedland is warning that a prolonged closure Strait of Hormuz would have a “profound” effect on global supply chains, hobbling copper producers…
Paladin’s Namibia restart sharpens Africa’s uranium relevance during wave of reactor builds
Paladin Energy’s (ASX, TSX: PDN) restart of the Langer Heinrich uranium mine in Namibia has put the country back on the map as one of the world’s top nuclear fuel…
Fujimori leads Peru presidential vote as mining risks rise
Keiko Fujimori led Peru’s presidential vote but fell short of an outright win, setting up a run-off that could reshape the outlook for the country’s critical mining sector. Exit polls…
China hikes rare earth prices by 45%
One of China’s biggest rare earth producers has hiked prices significantly, underscoring tightening market conditions and high geopolitical tensions in the midst of a raging conflict in the Middle East….
Gold price edges lower after failed US-Iran peace talks
Gold prices edged lower on Monday to a one-week low as inflation worries re-emerged following the collapse of the latest U.S.-Iran peace talks. Spot gold fell as much as 2.2%…
Chalice taps Cutifani’s firm for Aus palladium push
Chalice Mining (ASX: CHN) has appointed Odin Partnership, founded by former Anglo American (LSE: AAL) chief Mark Cutifani, as a strategic adviser to advance its Gonneville palladium-nickel-copper project in Western…
M&A: Denarius targets Emerita in Spain’s zinc-copper belt
Denarius Metals (CBOE: DMET; US-OTC: DNRSF) offered to buy Emerita Resources (TSXV: EMO; US-OTC: EMOTF) in an all-share deal that would consolidate assets in Spain’s Iberian Pyrite Belt while adding…
KoBold begins AI-driven lithium push in DRC
KoBold Metals, the mining firm backed by U.S. billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, has launched what it calls the largest lithium exploration campaign in history across the Democratic Republic…
Lithium Ionic jumps as Brazil mineral rights affirmed
Lithium Ionic (TSXV: LTH) reaffirmed the validity of its mineral rights in Brazil, including those for its flagship Bandeira project, amid regulatory scrutiny into parties with ties to the company….
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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…