Spotlight: Global battery metals
Battery metals are crucial in the world economy today and their importance will only grow over time as the climate warms and greener energy comes to the fore. Here are…
Exploration
Video: ValOre embraces AI to speed up Pedra Branca PGE discoveries in Brazil
ValOre Metals (TSXV: VO) uses AI to speed up discovery at its Pedra Branca platinum-group metals resource in northeastern Brazil, CEO Jim Paterson said. ValOre plans to use advanced AI…
Interview: Wilkinson mulls more tax credits for juniors
Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources says he’s open to discussing ways to boost funding in junior mining stocks and that he’s concerned infrastructure financing will disappear under potential…
PDAC: Seafloor mining balances pros and cons
Commercial production of undersea mining could become a reality in less than five years, but at a potentially high cost to seafloor ecosystems, panellists told the Prospectors & Developers Association…
‘Capital markets are collapsing,’ PDAC’s Killeen says
Jeff Killeen, PDAC’s director of policy and programs, sat down with The Northern Miner podcast host Adrian Pocobelli ahead of the 93rd edition of the Prospectors & Developers Association of…
Laramide boosts Westmoreland tonnage by a third
An update to Laramide Resources’ (TSX, ASX: LAM; US-OTC: LMRXF) Westmoreland uranium project in northern Australia increases indicated tonnage by 34% and inferred tonnage by 11% over the previous resource from…
Q&A: The Metals Co. plunges into the deep
You may have heard of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean. It’s a stretch of area from Hawaii to Mexico, which has been targeted by the deep-sea mining sector….
Policy paralysis leaves B.C. mining with $38B in limbo, EY report finds
British Columbia’s grassroots exploration sector faces a structural shift as flagship projects mature and early-stage exploration funding dries up, a new survey found. Exploration spending dropped 14% to $552 million…
Avalon bumps Separation Rapids lithium resource by 28% in Ontario
Avalon Advanced Materials (TSX: AVL; US-OTC: AVLNF) has boosted measured and indicated tonnage at its Separation Rapids hard rock lithium project in northwestern Ontario by 28% over a resource from…
First Atlantic Nickel shares soar on discovery
First Atlantic Nickel (TSXV: FAN; OTCQB: FANCF) soared to its highest in over two years after a new high-grade discovery was made at the company’s district-scale project in central Newfoundland….
Silver X Mining raises tonnage 18% at Peru property
Silver X Mining (TSXV: AGX; US-OTC: AGXPF) has raised the measured and indicated tonnage at its Nueva Recuperada Property in southwest Peru by 18% over a preliminary economic assessment from…
Aya Gold ups Boumadine’s tonnage 160%
Aya Gold & Silver (TSX: AYA; US-OTC: AYASF) boosted the indicated resource at its Boumadine project in Morocco by 160% and the inferred resource by 24% over the previous report…