South32 tapped for US$166M funding for Arizona manganese plant
South32 (LSE: S32; ASX: S32) says its Hermosa project in Arizona has been tapped for a United States government grant of up to US$166 million, part of U.S. energy department…
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Urbix gets US$125M government grant for Alabama graphite plant
Urbix, a company testing battery material production in the southern United States, has landed a US$125 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to build a new graphite processing…
Osisko Metals seeks financing partner on huge Gaspé copper project in Quebec
Osisko Metals (TSXV: OM; US-OTC: OMZNE) is advancing the giant Gaspé copper project in Quebec with an economic study planned for February amid efforts to land a 20% partnership with provincial financing agency…
West Red Lake Gold begins test mining at past-producing Madsen
The program will run for four months to support restarting production next year.
First Phosphate touts battery acid from Quebec rock ‘rarer than gold’
First Phosphate (CSE: PHOS; US-OTC: FRSPF) has posted an initial phosphate resource for its Bégin-Lamarche project in Quebec after choosing a plant site to process the material for lithium iron…
US closer to greenlighting ioneer’s Nevada lithium mine
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cleared on Thursday one of the final regulatory hurdles for ioneer’s (ASX: INR) Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine in Nevada, a project that would…
Fed cuts rate by 0.5%, gold rises
The United States Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to a range of 4.75% to 5% on Wednesday as the majority of analysts expected. Gold…
Electra teams with Ontario First Nations investment firm on battery recycling
Electra Battery Materials (NASDAQ: ELBM; TSXV: ELBM) has launched the Aki Battery Recycling joint venture with Indigenous economic development firm Three Fires Group to find critical minerals in scrap. The…
Atlantic Lithium within ‘touching distance’ of building Ghana’s first lithium mine
Atlantic Lithium (AIM: ALL; ASX: A11) reported a $12.4 million loss for the year ending June 2024, up slightly from the previous year’s loss of $11.5 million, as the company…
CanAlaska Uranium’s high-grade hits hint at Pike zone strength
Results from CanAlaska Uranium‘s (TSXV: CVV; US-OTC: CVVUF) summer drilling program continue to reveal the potential of its Pike zone on the West McArthur project, a joint venture with Cameco…
Saskatchewan plant first to produce rare earth metals in North America
Facility is ready to produce 10 tonnes of neodymium-praseodymium metals per month, with purities greater than 99.5%, SRC said.
Podcast: ‘Change the narrative using storytelling’ — Ana Juarez on her new children’s book on mining
In this week’s episode, Ana Juarez introduces her latest children’s book, Ana’s Adventure at the Mine: Enigmas Buried in History, the sequel to her previous work, Ana’s Adventure at the…