Denison and Uranium Energy fight over explorer UEX
Uranium Energy Corp. (NYSE: UEC) announced overnight that it had received a competing offer to acquire uranium exploration outfit UEX Corporation (TSX: UEX) and named Denison Mines (TSX: DML) as…
Financial Matters, M&A
Kenorland Minerals options Alaska copper project to Antofagasta
Junior Kenorland Minerals (TSXV: KLD) has inked an earn-in agreement with Antofagasta (LSE: ANTO) that gives the Chilean miner an option to acquire a 70% interest in the Tanacross copper-gold…
Hecla Mining acquires Yukon miner Alexco Resource in all-share deal
American silver producer Hecla Mining (NYSE: HL) has agreed to acquire all shares of Canadian Alexco Resource (TSX: AXU: NYSE-AM: AXU) it doesn’t already own, in a deal that values the target’s…
EDM Resources secures US$24M loan to take Scotia mine towards commercial production
EDM Resources (TSXV: EDM) has entered into a definitive credit agreement with Swiss base metals trading company IXM for US$24 million in debt financing to advance the company’s Scotia mine towards…
EY’s business risks ranking key to energy transition supply response
The results of EY’s Top 10 Business Risks survey are in play as the industry considers a supply response to the wall of metal demand the energy revolution is generating,…
GMS: Maureen Jensen on the ‘advent of digital finance’
The brisk, sweeping changes Industry 4.0 brings to the financial landscape are forcing miners to rethink how they operate while regulators closely watch and prepare to implement new rules to…
Sayona raises $136M for Quebec lithium project’s restart in 2023
Lithium developer Sayona Mining (ASX: SYA) on Friday announced a $136-million institutional placement to fund the 2023 restart of its North American Lithium (NAL) operations. “The planned restart at NAL remains…
Galway Metals closes $10.5M bought deal for Canadian exploration
Galway Metals (TSXV: GWM) has completed its recently upsized bought deal private placement, raising gross proceeds of $10.5 million. The financing consisted of the sale of approximately 6.66 million flow-through…
Mining Indaba: First Quantum pulls trigger on US$1.3B Kansanshi expansion
The board of First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) has resolved to proceed with a US$1.3 billion expansion of the company’s cornerstone Kansanshi copper mine in Zambia, including the Enterprise nickel…
Canada’s capex raising credentials remain a siren call for mine developers
For more than a century, Canada has been the global leader in capital formation for the mineral exploration and development industry. However, in the wake of modern demand for niche…
Key insights from the inaugural Future Minerals Forum in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s oil powerhouses, boasting the second-largest proven reserve of the slick stuff. Still, as the inaugural Future Minerals Forum recently held in Riyadh heard,…
ICMM members paid US$23.7B in taxes in 2020
The 28-members of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) reported total tax payments of US$23.7 billion in 2020, an effective tax rate of 39.7%, and an increase of…