YMP celebrates 2024 Eira Thomas and Peter Munk award winners
Scott Berdahl a Yukon-based geologist with a lifetime of experience prospecting in the bush and Ella Cullen, a New Zealander now living in Portugal who co-founded a business focused on…
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Podcast: Management surfaces as key issue at precious metals conferences, ft western editor Henry Lazenby
This week’s episode features Northern Miner western editor Henry Lazenby in discussion with host Adrian Pocobelli on key insights from two major events in September 2024: the Precious Metals Summit…
Denison deal shows slumping battery metals benefiting uranium sector
Foremost Lithium Resource & Technology (CSE: FAT; NASDAQ: FMST), a junior with early-stage projects in Quebec and Manitoba, is pivoting into uranium through a cash and shares earn-in deal with Denison…
Video: Gold miners face skepticism, even as metal price rises, Denver Gold exec says
Gold at all-time highs has pushed up miners’ margins, but companies are opting for restraint and avoiding the temptations of past bull cycles, Denver Gold Group executive director Tim Wood…
Washington mulls US$456M loan for American Rare Earths project capex in Wyoming
American Rare Earths (ASX: ARR; US-OTC: ARRNF) gained after reporting the United States is considering US$456 million in debt financing for the company’s Halleck Creek Wyoming project, one of the world’s…
Summit Minerals buys parcel to grow Brazil niobium project
Summit Minerals (ASX: SUM) has expanded its Equador niobium and tantalum project in northeast Brazil with the acquisition of a small tenement beside the project from RTB Geologia and Mineracao,…
Video: ‘We don’t need M&A to grow,’ B2Gold CEO says
B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-A: BTG) has had a rough year with falling production in Mali and a delay in first gold and rising costs at its Goose project in Nunavut….
Top miners’ reclamation obligations could surpass industry’s total debt by 2033
Environmental reclamation and site restoration costs for 24 major mining companies reached $72 billion in 2023, up from $40 billion in 2013.
Uranium Energy to buy Rio Tinto’s Wyoming assets for US$175M
Uranium Energy (NYSE-AM: UEC) has agreed to buy Rio Tinto’s (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) uranium assets in Wyoming, which include the fully-licensed Sweetwater plant and a portfolio of…
Nevada King Gold’s high-grade hits cap off strong summer of drilling
New drill results from Nevada King Gold (TSXV: NKG; US-OTC: NKGFF) returned high grades and confirmed mineralization lies relatively flat across the Atlanta project’s central part. Its shares rose. …
SSR targets October restart at Seabee gold mine in Saskatchewan after forest fire
SSR Mining (TSX, Nasdaq: SSRM; ASX: SSR) is expecting to restart its Seabee gold operations in Saskatchewan in the second half of October after a forest fire halted activities last…
Ivanhoe Electric’s VRB Energy enters vanadium battery JV with Chinese firm
Ivanhoe Electric’s (TSX: IE; NYSE-AM: IE) cleantech subsidiary VRB Energy is forming a joint venture with a Chinese investment firm that will bring in a US$55-million investment and help scale…