BHP offers to buy Anglo American for US$39B
BHP (LSE: BHP; NYSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) has made a tentative all-share offer valued at £31.1 billion (US$38.8 billion) to take over Anglo American (LSE: AAL) and become the world’s…
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Honda invests $15 billion in Ontario auto plants
Honda Motor is spending about $15 billion in Ontario to build four new vehicle and battery plants, the company and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday. Honda is to…
Equinox Gold buys out Orion for almost US$1B as it readies Greenstone for first gold
Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX; NYSE-AM: EQX) is buying partner Orion Mine Finance’s 40% stake in their new Greenstone gold mine in Ontario for US$995 million in cash and shares as it…
Power Nickel earns 80% of Nisk project in Quebec, adds polymetallic zone
Power Nickel (TSXV: PNPN; US-OTC: PNPNF) increased its ownership of the Nisk project to 80% from Critical Elements Lithium (CRE: TSXV) and reported new drill results from a polymetallic zone. The…
TNM Drill Down: West African Resources posts second top assay in a month from Burkina Faso
Our TNM Drill Down features highlights of the best gold assays of the April 12-19 period. Drill holes are ranked by gold grade x width as identified by data company Mining…
G Mining buys Reunion’s Oko West gold project in Guyana for $875M
Montreal-based G Mining Ventures (TSX: GMIN; US-OTC: GMINF) is expanding its South American holdings by taking over Reunion Gold’s (TSXV: RGD; US-OTC: RGDFF) Oko West gold project in Guyana in…
GoviEx plunges as Niger uranium project faces deadline
GoviEx Uranium (TSXV: GXU; US-OTC: GVXXF) says it’s discussing with Niger’s military leaders how to avoid losing its Madaouela project licence if it fails to start the mine by July 3. The…
Lithium Americas seeks US$275M in share sale for Thacker Pass project in Nevada
Lithium Americas (TSX: LAC; NYSE: LAC) is raising US$275 million through a stock offering weeks after getting initial approval for a record government loan to advance its Thacker Pass lithium project…
Federal budget backs Indigenous mine projects with $5B while hiking capital gains tax for investors
Canada’s new federal budget contained several measures impacting the mining industry including loan guarantees for Indigenous projects, increases in the capital gains tax and credits from mines to manufacturing for…
TNM Drill Down: Quartz Mountain cuts best gold assay, at Maestro project in BC
Our TNM Drill Down features highlights of the best gold assays of the April 5 – 12 period. Drill holes are ranked by gold grade x width as identified by…
Lithium Ionic expands Brazil resources by a quarter
Lithium Ionic (TSXV: LTH; US-OTC: LTHCF) says it has grown its combined resources at the Salinas and Bandeira projects in Minas Gerais state, Brazil by 26%. The Bandeira project holds 23.7 million…
Glencore tussles with farmers in Australian court over carbon storage plan
Australian farmers are taking mining giant Glencore (LSE: GLEN) to federal court to block a carbon capture and storage plan they say will pollute an underground water reservoir a fifth…