Editorial: Iron ore prices surge higher on Vale disaster
All of those supply and demand, and price forecasts carefully assembled in late 2018 for iron ore have become obsolete in the wake of Vale’s devastating Corrego do Feijao tailings…
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Kerr Mines targets 2020 production at Copperstone
Kerr Mines (TSX: KER; US-OTC: KERMF) expects to mine and stockpile mineralized material from its Copperstone gold project in Arizona in the fourth quarter of this year, with production starting…
US markets post slight gains: Vale, Cleveland Cliffs, Buenaventura, Franco-Nevada, Peabody Energy
The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a marginal 0.17% gain to 25,106.33, while the S&P 500 Index ended 0.05% higher at 2,707.88. Despite a rising dollar, spot gold held above…
McEwen closes in on production at Gold Bar
McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX) will soon be pouring first gold at its new Gold Bar mine in central Nevada, just 14 months after breaking ground in November 2017….
American Lithium drilling Nevada claystones
American Lithium (TSXV: LI; US-OTC: LIACF) is about to drill its 6.3 sq. km Tonopah lithium claystone (TLC) project near Tonopah, Nevada. Over the next six weeks the company will…
Trilogy Metals is cashed up and ready to go in Alaska
South32 (LON: S32) has the next 11 months to decide whether it wants to write a US$150-million cheque for a 50% stake in Trilogy Metals’ (TSX: TMQ; NYSE-AM: TMQ) two…
Pure Gold aims to pour first gold at Madsen in Q2 2020
With its recently completed feasibility study behind it, Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM) expects to make a production decision on its Madsen gold project in northwestern Ontario’s Red Lake camp…
Liberty Gold advances Black Pine, Goldstrike
Liberty Gold (TSX: LGD) has shown an interest in past-producing oxide gold projects in the Great Basin area of the southwest United States. The historic Goldstrike heap-leach mine on its…
Site visit: Fremont drills past producers in Nevada
ELKO, NEVADA — Fremont Gold (TSXV: FRE; US-OTC: USTDF) is drilling 1,000 reverse-circulation (RC) metres at its Gold Bar gold project, a two-hour drive from Elko, Nevada. It’s targeting a…
Viva breathes new life into Tonopah in Nevada
James Hesketh had his eye on Midway Gold’s Tonopah project — 30 km southeast of the Round Mountain mine in Nevada’s Walker Lane trend — since 2007. So when Midway…
Commentary: Silver poised for stronger year after humdrum 2018: Silver Institute
The following is a release by the Silver Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit association that draws its international membership from across the breadth of the silver industry, including silver miners,…
The Northern Miner Podcast – Miner Moment #19: America’s worrying lack of a battery-minerals supply chain ft Benchmark’s Moores
Simon Moores, managing director of battery minerals advisory firm Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, appeared before a U.S. Senate committee for energy and minerals on Feb. 5, 2019, to once again sound…