Sponsored Q&A: Neglected lime systems can halt mines
Miners are pushing existing operations harder as new projects face high costs, tight capital and long permitting schedules. That shift has made plant reliability and reagent use more important to…
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Dirty gold overtakes cocaine as crime’s cash machine
Criminal groups continue to shift from cocaine to illegal mining as banks and governments scramble to close financial loopholes.
Editorial: Industrial power returns
For much of the past three decades, mining executives struggled to convince governments that minerals were strategic assets. They no longer have to make that case because the world has made it…
Ottawa approves Canada Nickel’s Crawford mine
Canada Nickel (TSXV: CNC: US-OTC: CNIKF) has secured federal approval to proceed with its proposed Crawford polymetallic mine in Ontario, paving the way for a construction decision next year amid…
Equinox hands CEO job to Orla’s Simpson
Equinox Gold (TSX, NYSE-A: EQX) will hand the CEO job to Orla Mining’s Jason Simpson on Nov. 1, reversing a leadership plan set when the companies agreed to merge in…
Cameco’s Westinghouse nuclear unit files for IPO
Cameco’s (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) Westinghouse Electric joint venture filed for a U.S. initial public offering at a yet-to-be-determined date to tap growing investor interest in nuclear technology and services. Westinghouse…
Gangs hijack Ecuador’s gold mining supply chain
Ecuador has elevated illegal mining to a national security threat after concluding that criminal gangs have infiltrated the country’s gold supply chain, from extraction to export, turning the sector into…
Perpetua Resources, US Army and Idaho National Laboratory launch antimony pilot plant
Hercules hires executive team behind $2B Hudbay deal
Hercules Metals (TSXV: BIG; US-OTC: BADEF) has recruited the management team behind Arizona Sonoran Copper’s $2-billion (US$1.4-billion) sale to Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) to push the Leviathan copper discovery…
Commentary: Canada should back critical minerals with buyers
The federal government’s first move through the Canada Critical Minerals Accelerator did not go to a lithium developer or a nickel mine. It went to germanium, antimony and gallium at…
Opinion: Seeing the district for the deposit
But sometimes they form clusters or groups of deposits. It’s these types of places where the geology is so fertile that one discovery is not the end of the story but the beginning…
Anglo execs take top jobs in $53B Teck merger
Anglo American (LSE: AAL) executives will hold three of Anglo Teck’s four top jobs after the $53-billion all-share merger with Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A, TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) closes next year….