FireFly glows on Newfoundland copper project resource
FireFly Metals (ASX: FFM) expanded its Green Bay copper-gold project’s contained metal by 42% in an update this week, putting it on course to restart the Ming mine in 2028 at…
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Bunker Hill in line for US$150M federal bank loan for Idaho silver project
Bunker Hill Mining (CSE: BNKR) says the Export-Import Bank of the United States may loan it US$150 million to help restart and expand the past-producing Bunker Hill silver mine project in Idaho….
Li-FT secures mystery lithium investor
Li-FT Power (TSXV: LIFT; US-OTC: LIFFF), which claims to have Canada’s third-largest maiden hard rock lithium resource, said this week that an unnamed investor is buying 9.99% of the company…
Arkansas lithium projects heat up with royalty battle, huge underground resource
As Arkansas contends with booming lithium discoveries and investments by ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), Albemarle (NYSE: ALB) and Standard Lithium (TSXV: SLI) among others, the state faces a battle over the amount of…
Barrick, Mali exchange shots in US$500M tax dispute
Barrick Gold’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) negotiations with Mali’s military government appear to have stumbled after both sides issued claims about a Sept. 30 preliminary agreement. The West African country’s…
Collective’s new high-grade find could lift Guayabales economics, analyst says
Collective Mining (TSX: CNL; NYSE: CNL) says it’s discovered a new high-grade gold zone about 1 km deep at the Guayabales project in Colombia that can increase its resource. The find,…
New film sees mining through Quebec Inuit eyes
The northern Quebec region of Nunavik is the setting for a new documentary on the tussle between Inuit survival on the land and the mining industry’s quest to dig it…
Sitka drills deep visible gold to expand Yukon project
Sitka Gold (TSXV: SIG; US-OTC: SITKF) says new assays showing mineralization at depth “significantly” expand the Blackjack deposit at its RC project in the Yukon. Drill hole DDRCCC-24-068 returned 678.1 metres…
Left and right ‘unite’ against Rio lithium project in Serbia
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) faces a crucial test this month in Serbia as leaders of a small town vote on whether to allow Europe’s largest lithium project,…
Blue Moon shareholder battle spotlights shades of grey in junior market
A minority group of shareholders in Blue Moon Metals (TSXV: MOON; US-OTC: BMOOF), which holds a first-resource-stage zinc-silver project in California, says its CEO issued defensive stock offerings that destroyed an…
Barrick fights to dismiss Tanzanian abuse allegations from Canadian court
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) is arguing in an Ontario court that allegations of human rights abuses in Tanzania should be decided in that country instead, with local police and…
CanAlaska Uranium shores up Pike zone with more high grade hits in Athabasca
CanAlaska Uranium (TSXV: CVV; US-OTC: CVVUF) posted new “ultra high-grade” drill results from its Athabasca basin joint venture with Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) that strengthen its Pike discovery, made in 2022….