‘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…
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PDAC: Canada, Australia risk falling behind in investment race, BHP boss says
Canada and Australia could end up trailing emerging mining nations such as Argentina if their governments don’t speed up permitting and lower costs, BHP (NYSE, LSE, ASX: BHP) CEO Mike…
PDAC: How size, location affect investor picks
Big discoveries trump jurisdictional issues but sometimes case by case analysis turns that on its head, Scotiabank’s mining and metals investment team leader told a session at the Prospectors &…
Fourth-largest gold producer due for IPO
The biggest gold company you may never have heard of — may, because The Northern Miner did cover it at length two years ago — could be heading towards an…
Aris Mining’s Woodyer on his billion-dollar babies
The Northern Miner podcast host Adrian Pocobelli sat down with company-builder Neil Woodyer, who founded Aris Mining (TSX: ARIS; NYSE-AM: ARMN), Endeavour Mining (LSE, TSX: EDV; US-OTC: EDVMF) and Leagold…
Trump, Zelenskyy nix minerals deal
United States President Donald Trump and his Ukraine counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy cancelled a mineral rights and security agreement at the White House on Friday after a news conference degenerated into…
Is private equity the solution to funding shortfalls?
Private equity’s interest in mining remains robust despite a short-term slump in deals, industry executives and financiers say. Metals and mining transactions involving private equity and venture capital firms fell…
Copper tariffs to hit consumers: ex-Codelco CEO
Potential U.S. tariffs on copper will only serve to drive up prices for consumers because domestic producers won’t be able to make up the shortfall, the former CEO of Chilean…
JV Q&A: The HiveMap platform offers next-gen geological mapping for mining
The mining industry is in constant need of replacing what it produces through making new discoveries. One way of aiding this quest entails embracing new technologies to enhance miners’ discovery…
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….
SQM expands into Africa with $40M Namibia deal
Chile’s SQM (NYSE: SQM), the world’s second largest lithium producer, has received approval from Namibian regulators to proceed with an earn-in agreement worth up to US$40 million with South Africa-based…