Oil boosts risk of gold miner cost revisions: Jefferies
Elevated gold prices won’t be enough to help miners offset cost increases of as much as 9% if oil prices remain at current levels through the second half of 2026,…
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Mining influencers take industry’s image battle to TikTok
As the mining industry asks how it can defend its reputation amid a critical and activist-oriented narrative prevailing in the West, young people in mining are taking it upon themselves to counter that narrative using smartphones and social media to tell…
KSM shows how difficult it is to build a mine in Canada
Canada still discovers giant gold deposits faster than it builds them and Seabridge Gold’s (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SA) KSM project in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle is one of them. KSM won provincial and federal…
Hormuz shock drives coal to 14-year high
Coal investment will reach $180 billion (C$250 billion) this year, up 4% from last year and the highest since 2012, as the Middle East conflict pushes Asian countries to produce…
How to dodge the Iran war
Soaring fuel and chemicals prices triggered by the war in the Middle East are pushing global miners to dig deep for creative solutions. Take the case of Marimaca Copper (TSX: MARI; ASX: MC2), which…
Copper prices must rise as supply crunch looms: Giustra
Copper prices will need to rise sharply as miners struggle to build enough new supply to meet demand from electrification, artificial intelligence and grid expansion, mining financier Frank Giustra says….
Petra Diamonds sidelines Finsch mine, cuts jobs
Petra Diamonds (LSE: PDL) is placing its Finsch mine into business rescue and cutting jobs across its South African operations as collapsing diamond prices and a strong rand threaten the…
CHARTS: How the sulphuric acid crunch is driving up critical minerals costs
Conflict in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have sent sulphuric acid prices soaring, sharply increasing production costs for lithium, nickel and other critical minerals…
Iran war squeezes acid, aluminium, miners’ margins: WoodMac report
The Iran war around the Strait of Hormuz is starting to hit miners far from the Persian Gulf, Wood Mackenzie warned on Wednesday. The conflict is choking sulphur shipments that…
Discovery Silver-backed Abitibi Metals drills 3.6% copper at B26 in Quebec
Abitibi Metals (CSE: AMQ; US-OTC: AMQFF) has returned one of its strongest copper-gold intercepts yet at the B26 polymetallic project in western Quebec, as drilling continues to define higher-grade zones…
Colombia election could reshape copper investment
Colombia’s presidential election this weekend could determine whether one of Latin America’s most underexplored copper frontiers attracts billions in mining investment or sinks deeper into regulatory uncertainty and security turmoil….
BC’s critical minerals push faces delivery test: PwC
British Columbia and the Yukon risk losing ground in the global critical minerals race unless they can accelerate mine construction, power infrastructure and permitting as demand shifts from commodity cycles…