Gen Z warms to mining as labour crunch looms
Canada’s mining industry is attracting more young people just as it faces a much bigger problem: finding enough workers to staff a new generation of mines. A new Mining Industry…
Articles by Colin McClelland
Agnico buys Quebec gold junior stake for $57M
Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX, NYSE: AEM) is investing $57.2 million (US$41.4 million) in Radisson Mining Resources (TSXV: RDS; US-OTC: RMRDF) to help revive one of the Abitibi region’s highest grade…
Gold price gets U.S. bond policy boost
Gold’s surge to about $4,600 per oz. this week may have further to run if U.S. policymakers increasingly intervene to hold down long-term borrowing costs, according to the World Gold…
Gold Fields puts $77M in Suriname-focused Founders
Gold Fields (NYSE, JSE: GFI), one of the world’s largest gold miners, is investing another $77 million (US$55.7 million) to raise its stake in Suriname explorer Founders Metals (TSXV: FDR;…
Venezuela targets $4.4B London gold stash
Venezuela’s government and opposition have agreed to jointly pursue the return of about 31 tonnes of gold held at the Bank of England in a plan to help finance reconstruction…
Blue Moon rejects short seller’s claims
Blue Moon Metals (TSXV: MOON; Nasdaq: BMM) is defending its main Nussir copper project after short-seller Viceroy Research questioned permits, financing and broader development strategy, while an analyst firm says…
Vale speeds Salobo copper expansion, cuts costs
Vale’s (NYSE: VALE) Base Metals (VBM) unit is adding about 30,000 tonnes of annual production at its Salobo mine, Brazil’s largest copper operation, after cutting capital costs and accelerating first…
Apex’s rare earth assays elevate Rift among US projects
Apex Critical Metals (CSE: APXC; US-OTC: APXCF) has expanded high-grade rare earth mineralization at its Rift project in southeastern Nebraska, returning multiple intercepts above 4% total rare earth oxides (REO)….
Editorial: Industrial power returns
For much of the past three decades, mining executives struggled to convince governments that minerals were strategic assets. They no longer have to make that case because the world has made it…
Haywood cuts gold forecasts but miners attractive
Haywood Securities has cut its near-term gold and silver price forecasts after a weaker second quarter but says the pullback has created an attractive entry point into precious-metals equities ahead…
US struggles to secure lithium for strategic stockpile
The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency has pushed back for a second time the deadline for suppliers to bid on a contract to provide battery-grade lithium carbonate for the nation’s strategic…
U.S. defence push hits China minerals snag: Reuters
President Donald Trump’s drive to eliminate Chinese critical minerals from U.S. defence supply chains by the start of 2027 is running up against the reality that domestic mining and processing…