Quebec simplifies environmental process
Quebec, one of North America’s biggest producers of minerals such as gold, graphite and lithium, recently adopted a new law that amends most of its environmental legislation. Colin McClelland, The…
Articles by Colin McClelland
Osisko’s Gaspé project seeks deep-pockets partner
Osisko Metals (TSX: OM) CEO Robert Wares is confident on expanding the largest copper project east of the Mississippi while getting the permits and partner to develop it. The Gaspé…
Troilus CEO nets European funding on Carney trip
Troilus Gold (TSX: TLG; US-OTC: CHXMF) has lined up hundreds of millions in European financing and offtake deals fresh from a Canadian trade mission promoting what CEO Justin Reid calls…
Editorial: Quebec’s mining crossroads
Quebec’s mining sector is at once thriving and uncertain, a duality that reflects the global forces reshaping commodities and the local policies that aim to manage them. The province has…
Washington seeks Thacker Pass stake
The Trump administration now wants an initial 5-10% equity stake in Lithium Americas’ (TSX, NYSE: LAC) Thacker Pass project in Nevada as it seeks to renegotiate the terms of a…
Hudbay halts Constancia mine amid Peru protests
Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) has temporarily shut down its Constancia mine in southern Peru in response to local protests and illegal blockades that have escalated amid wider unrest across…
Gold price hits new record high
Gold pushed to a record $3,728 per oz. on Monday before easing about $10 an oz. as investors piled into exchange-traded funds, extending a rally that resumed after last week’s…
Friedland sells 4% of Ivanhoe to Qatar for $500M
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) has agreed to a $500-million investment from Qatar that gives its sovereign wealth fund 4% of the Canadian copper miner founded by billionaire Robert Friedland….
Arizona Sonoran bumps copper at Cactus by half
Arizona Sonoran Copper (TSX: ASCU; US-OTC: ASCUF) has increased its Cactus project’s contained metal by 51% ahead of a prefeasibility study (PFS) due this year. Cactus now hosts 1.04 billion…
Iamgold hits 13-year high on Quebec assays
Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) says new assay results from Nelligan and Monster Lake in central Quebec deliver new high-grade hits that extend mineralization. In zone 36 at Nelligan, drill…
New gold explorer M&A in northern Europe
First Nordic Metals (TSXV: FNM), which includes Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX, NYSE: AEM) among its backers, has agreed to acquire Mawson Finland in an all-share deal that will bring together…
Canada fast-tracks Newmont, Foran projects
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has named Newmont’s (TSX: NGT; NYSE: NEM) Red Chris copper-gold mine expansion in British Columbia and Foran Mining’s (TSXV: FOM) McIlvenna Bay copper project in…