US stocks close lower during Feb. 6-10 trading week
During the Feb. 6-10 trading week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 56.7 points or 0.17% to 33,869.3 and the S&P 500 fell 46 points or 1% to 4,090.5. Among…
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Vulcan Energy to mine 60% more German lithium than planned
Vulcan is now targeting 24,000 tonnes of lithium a year from its brine resource in Germany — 60% higher than its previous goal of 15,000 tonnes.
B2Gold to buy Sabina Gold & Silver for $1.1B
Canada’s B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE: BTG) is buying fellow precious metals miner Sabina Gold & Silver (TSX: SBB; US-OTC: SGSVF) in an all-stock deal worth $1.1 billion (US$824 million). The…
Cyber threats on the rise for resource industries
Mining companies continue to embrace digital technology to improve productivity and safety, and to make the most of insights made possible by big data and increasingly connected equipment and operations….
Video: BHP Xplor VP Sonia Scarselli on the accelerator’s first cohort
The Northern Miner recently sat down with BHP Xplor’s VP Sonia Scarselli to discuss the recent announcement of the accelerator program’s first cohort of companies. The seven companies selected will…
OBITUARY: Geophysics pioneer and PGW founder Norman Reed Paterson
The geophysical community lost a giant on Dec. 22, 2022, when Norm Paterson passed away, a month short of his 97th birthday. Paterson’s remarkable career spanned a range of techniques…
Exclusive video: Investor darling Snowline Gold plans for more discoveries in the Yukon
Snowline Gold’s CEO Scott Berdahl discusses the company’s near-surface Valley gold discovery in the Yukon, which has returned unusually high grades compared to similar bulk-tonnage deposits. Berdahl spoke with Northern Miner staff…
Nighthawk Gold expands Colomac resource estimate in NWT by a third
Nighthawk Gold (TSX: NHK; US-OTC: MIMZF) increased its open-pit indicated and inferred mineral resources at its Colomac project in the Northwest Territories by more than a third while also improving…
Talks with First Quantum making headway, Panama says
Panama’s government said negotiations with First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) about agreeing on a contract for the company’s Cobre Panama copper complex have shown signs of progress this week. Comments…
Torex Gold picks up the pace on Media Luna build
Torex Gold (TSX: TXG) plans to invest between US$390 million and US$440 million in its flagship Media Luna gold project in Mexico this year to speed up development, with commercial production anticipated in…
Cameco pivots into profit as Ukraine war knocks uranium supplies
Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) has swung into profit after uranium prices rose when the war in Ukraine sidelined Russian supplies and as the push to reduce greenhouse gases accelerated. …
Sherritt International turns a corner in pivotal 2022
Nickel and cobalt producer Sherritt International (TSX: S) has reported strong financial results for 2022, as higher prices offset lower cobalt output. The Toronto-headquartered company reported overnight Thursday full-year net…