First Majestic eyes late 2027 restart for Jerritt Canyon
First Majestic Silver (TSX: FR; NYSE: AG) unveiled plans to restart its past-producing Jerritt Canyon gold mine in Nevada by the end of next year to take advantage of elevated prices…
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Opinion: The world of cheap oil is gone
Are we living in the 1970s? I can’t tell you, I wasn’t there, but it’s an interesting analogy. Then, as today, we have the fear of inflation, the eroding value of cash and now spiking oil prices. Of course, nothing can…
Bonterra grows gold resource near mill in Quebec
Bonterra Resources (TSXV: BTR; US-OTC: BONXF) boosted measured and indicated gold resources 42% at the Desmaraisville project’s Bachelor and Moroy deposits in Quebec, making the case to restart mining closer…
New F3 Uranium assays lift Saskatchewan project’s ‘credibility’: analyst
New drilling by F3 Uranium (TSXV: FUU) at the company’s Broach property in northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin produced several high-grade hits. Hole PLN25-219A in the Tetra zone cut 13 metres…
OceanaGold finds high-grade gold in New Zealand
OceanaGold (TSX: OGC; US-OTC: OCANF) said recent drilling at its Wharekirauponga deposit in New Zealand points to a new high-grade zone emerging outside current reserves. Highlight hole WKP144A cut 5.4…
Canada key as Vale plans base metals profit surge
Vale‘s (NYSE: VALE) base metals business could generate more than one-third of the Brazilian mining group’s pretax profit over the coming decade as production climbs and efficiencies kick in, executives…
Blackrock Silver lifts Tonopah West value by a third to $437M in Nevada’s top tier
An updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for Blackrock Silver’s (TSXV: BRC; US-OTC: BKRRF) Tonopah West project in Nevada lifts its value by one-third while more than doubling contained silver. Shares…
EXIM nears decision on $2.7B for Perpetua antimony site
Perpetua Resources (Nasdaq, TSX: PPTA) says the proposed multi-billion-dollar loan earmarked by the U.S. export credit agency for its main gold-antimony project in Idaho has now entered its final approval…
Fireweed nets $61.5M to advance zinc, tungsten projects
Fireweed Metals’ (TSXV: FWZ; US-OTC: FWEDF) remote critical metals projects in Canada’s Far North are gaining increasing strategic and industrial backing as it receives a $61.5-million (US$44.1-million) investment to help…
Americas Gold & Silver sees 30% output rise this year
Americas Gold and Silver (TSX: USA; NYSE American: USAS) predicts production will climb about 30% this year on the back of rising output from its Galena complex in Idaho and…
Crescat knocks Canada’s flow-through funds as ‘blight’ on juniors
Canada’s flow-through share tax incentives, beloved by many in the mining industry, are facing sharp criticism from Denver-based Crescat Capital, one of the junior market’s biggest specialist hedge funds. That…
Barrick delays Reko Diq, cites Iran war
Barrick Mining (TSX: ABX, NYSE: B) said Thursday it will slow development of the giant Reko Diq project in Pakistan because of security concerns in the Middle East. The decision…