Titan guns for unique graphite ranking
Titan Mining (TSX: TI; US-OTC: TIMCF) says it’s on track start producing graphite in upstate New York this year at what will be the country’s only integrated producer of the…
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Brazil Potash taps private equity for $200M
Brazil Potash (NYSE: GRO), aiming to build the largest fertilizer mine in the Amazon rainforest, says it has a preliminary agreement with a private equity firm to fund the project’s electricity needs. …
Video: Reasons to back gold haven’t gone, Rule says
Rick Rule, the renowned mining financier who has managed hundreds of millions in investments and shaped the sector for over four decades, remains bullish on gold despite its already meteoric…
Feds back AI core scan in NWT for green metals
The Canadian federal and Northwest Territories governments are backing a new AI-powered drill core scanning pilot aimed at opening up critical mineral exploration across the country’s underexplored North. The project…
Editorial: Nato and Trump to the REE rescue
Today’s huge Pentagon deal for MP Materials, the sole producer of rare earth elements (REEs) in the United States, continues the ratcheting up of developments in this formerly obscure sector….
Implats to shut Ontario mine
Impala Platinum (JSE: IMP; US-OTC: IMPUY), widely known as Implats, is shutting its mine in northern Ontario next May because of low palladium prices, a company spokesperson confirmed. The closure…
Central banks, falling USD spur gold price: Sprott
The gold price’s sustained rally through the first half of 2025 reflects deeper shifts in global financial power, with central banks accelerating a move away from the U.S. dollar and…
‘Big beautiful’ U.S. bill would end crit-min tax credit
Legislation moving through the United States Congress could eliminate a key tax credit aimed at supporting domestic production of critical minerals, raising concern among mining companies and investors about the…
Snowline Gold posts strong economics in first PEA
Snowline Gold (TSXV: SGD; OTCQB: SNWGF) says a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Valley deposit at the Rogue project in Yukon shows robust economics for what could become a…
Trafigura backs Euro Sun’s Rovina Valley with $200M financing deal
Euro Sun Mining (TSXV: ESM; US-OTC: ESMNF) has lined up a $200-million loan package, with backing from global commodities trader Trafigura, to help finance its Rovina Valley gold-copper project in…
Torngat secures $165M for Strange Lake REE project
Torngat Metals has secured $165 million in government funding for pre-construction work at its Strange Lake rare earth project straddling northern Quebec and Labrador. Export Development Canada is supplying a…
Asante locks in $635M refinancing, eyes TSXV debut
Asante Gold (CSE: ASE; US-OTC: ASGOF) has secured $470 million (C$635 million) to refinance debt, fund expansion at its Bibiani and Chirano gold mines in Ghana, and prepare for a…