Iamgold assays support Côté project expansion in Ontario
Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) says drill results support expanding the Gosselin discovery that could be added to the Côté project targeting first-pour next year in northern Ontario. The…
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LBMA implements optical AI technology to trace gold bars’ provenance
The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) announced that it has added optical AI developer Alitheon to the pool of five companies that support the Gold Bar Integrity (GBI) initiative. The…
Exclusive AME Roundup video: Caroline Cochrane, Northwest Territories Premier
The Northwest Territories, which depends heavily on mining, has an obligation to leverage its critical minerals endowment towards the green economy, Caroline Cochrane, premier of the Northwest Territories, told Northern Miner Staff Writer Henry…
Exclusive AME Roundup Video: Greg Nesbitt, Manitoba Natural Resources Minister
Greg Nesbitt, Minister, Manitoba Natural Resources and Northern Development, speaks to Henry Lazenby, Staff Reporter with The Northern Miner at AME BC Roundup in January. They discuss how Manitoba is…
Camino to partner with Japan’s Nittetsu at Los Chapitos in Peru
Camino Corp. (TSXV: COR) has signed a letter of intent to partner with Japan’s Nittetsu Mining Co. at its Los Chapitos copper exploration project in Peru. Nittetsu currently operates the…
American Lithium’s Tonopah may operate at globally low cost
Analysts say American Lithium‘s (TSXV: LI; NASDAQ: AMLI) Tonopah project in Nevada could run at world-beating costs based on a new study including the sale of by-product magnesium. The operating…
VRIC 2023: Former Western premiers slam feds on resource leadership
Concern is growing over the federal government’s seeming inability to leverage Canada’s vast natural resource endowment as it navigates the uncertain global geopolitical and economic landscape, an industry event in…
MMG shuts Las Bambas copper mine amid Peru protests
China-backed miner MMG Ltd has placed its vast Las Bambas copper mine in Peru, the world’s second largest producing nation of the metal, on care and maintenance due to ongoing…
Searchers find Rio Tinto’s radioactive capsule lost in Australia
An Australian emergency services search team has found a tiny, but potentially deadly radioactive capsule belonging to Rio Tinto (ASX, LSE: RIO) on the side of a highway in the…
Billionaire-backed iron-air battery firm to start building factory within weeks
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are among investors who’ve raised US$800 million for a company developing a low-cost iron alternative for power grid storage which plans to begin…
U.S. agency blocks Northern Dynasty’s Pebble project in Alaska
Northern Dynasty Minerals’ (TSX: NDM; NYSE: NAK) contentious Pebble project in southwest Alaska is on the rocks again after the Environmental Protection Agency denied environmental approvals. The EPA on…
The Northern Miner Podcast – episode 328: ‘Copper is as strategic as gold is precious’—copper and gold double-header ft Richard Adkerson and Mark Bristow
This week’s episode is a copper and gold CEO double-header, featuring the opening remarks of Freeport-McMoran CEO Richard Adkerson at the company’s recent Q4 conference call on Jan. 25, 2023,…