Canada gets first bullet-proof steel plant
Canada is building its first plant to produce bullet-proof steel after a federal trade mission to Sweden inked a $100-million (US$72.2 million) deal. Ontario-based armoured vehicle maker Roshel and Swedish…
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Silver Bullet’s King Tut grades fit for a pharaoh
Silver Bullet Mines (TSXV: SBMI; US-OTC: SBMCF) has bought the past-producing underground King Tut gold mine in Arizona on “very low” cash terms in a deal almost as mysterious as…
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…
‘Almost no surveillance’ of Eagle leach pad
Victoria Gold wasn’t paying enough attention to the Eagle mine heap leach pad before its catastrophic landslide in Yukon last year, an accident investigator says. The carelessness was a major…
China’s mining investment sets new record
China’s overseas mining investment has soared to its highest level in over a decade, driven by Beijing’s push to secure critical raw materials amid rising geopolitical tensions. There were 10…
Canada advances plan to freeze Giant mine’s toxic waste
Canada’s $4.4-billion plan to cope with a poisonous legacy at a former gold mine in the Northwest Territories risks complicating local efforts to find a permanent solution. Ottawa is moving…
CHART: The brutal economics of EV battery lithium
News this week that the world’s second-biggest lithium miner – SQM – has begun laying off 5% of its Chilean workforce would not come as a surprise to those following…
Interview: Barrick CEO talks slimming gold portfolio
When Barrick Gold took over Randgold in 2019, its marketing dropped Gold from the name to reflect wider interests like copper and appeal to new investors. But it didn’t bother…
Can silver mining meet green transition demand?
Silver’s unique industrial role in solar panels, electric vehicles (EVs) and grid infrastructure is pushing demand to record highs, but miners and analysts are at odds over how to address…
Geopolitics to shape mining’s future: TNMG president
Industry stakeholders should view resource development in a global context because shifting geopolitical dynamics will increasingly determine mining, The Northern Miner Group President Anthony Vaccaro says. “We need to look…
Video: Suspect arrested in Peru gold mine massacre
The main suspect in the kidnapping and murder of 13 gold miners in Peru has been arrested in Colombia, according to the Peru’s Ministry of the Interior. Miguel Antonio Rodríguez…
Manitoba fires threaten Tanco lithium-cesium mine
Sinomine’s Tanco mine in southeast Manitoba, one of Canada’s two lithium mines, faces risks as wildfires continued to rage in the area on Friday, while Grid Metals (TSX: GRDM; US-OTC:…