Hudbay Minerals closes second quarter with $14.9 million loss
Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) reported a net loss of $14.9 million in the second quarter of the year as the Canadian company allocated resources to the acquisition of…
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Site visit: Will Rio Tinto bet more on Western Copper and Gold’s Casino project in Yukon?
Near Carmacks, Yukon — Decision time for Western Copper and Gold’s (TSX: WRN; NYSE-AM: WRN) $3.6 billion Casino project in remote Yukon looms less than four months away. Rio Tinto…
Standard Lithium study pegs South West Arkansas project NPV at US$3.1B
Standard Lithium’s (TSXV: SLI) South West Arkansas project in the namesake state could produce 30,000-35,000 tonnes per year of battery-quality lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM) over a 20-year operating life, according…
Nunavut copper finds send Aston Bay Holdings shares jumping
Shares in Australian-Canadian exploration partners American West Metals (ASX: AW1) and Aston Bay Holdings (TSXV: BAY) shot to 12-month highs on Tuesday after announcing a major copper discovery at the…
Lithium Chile PEA gives NPV of US$1.1B for Arizaro project in Argentina
Lithium Chile‘s (TSXV: LITH; US-OTC: LTMCF) Salar de Arizaro project in northern Argentina could produce 25,000 tonnes per year of battery-grade lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) over 19 years, according to…
Podcast: ‘Grade is driving investors’—The Northern Miner’s Colin McClelland on his site visits in Yukon
This week’s episode features Northern Miner senior staff writer Colin McClelland in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on Colin’s recent visit to the Yukon, where he toured several mining projects….
Barrick prepares to restart Porgera gold mine in PNG
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) plans to restart operations at the Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG) later this year, according to CEO Mark Bristow, while an…
Nutrien freezes potash output ramp up, US ammonia project on weak market
Nutrien (TSX: NTR; NYSE: NTR), the world’s largest potash producer, is indefinitely pausing plans for ramping-up output and will also halt work on its clean ammonia project at Geismar, La.,…
Capstone Copper building copper-cobalt district in Chile
By integrating its Mantoverde and Santo Domingo mines it expects to churn out 200,000 tonnes of copper and 6,000 tonnes of battery-grade cobalt a year.
US Department of Energy upgrades copper’s status to ‘critical’
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week officially added copper to its Critical Materials list, marking the first time a U.S. government agency has included copper on one of…
Alamos feasibility reveals big reserves increase, capex required
An updated feasibility study on Alamos Gold’s (TSX: AGI; NYSE; AGI) Lynn Lake project in Manitoba, Wednesday showed a big increase in reserves, but also a big increase in expected…
E3 Lithium nears first production at DLE field pilot plant
E3 Lithium (TSXV: ETL), developer of a large lithium resource in south-central Alberta, has started commissioning of its direct lithium extraction (DLE) field pilot plant. With all major pieces of…