Norway to award Arctic seabed mining blocks in 2025
The government announced the first licensing round for seabed minerals on the Norwegian continental shelf for public consultation.
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Gold Reserve raising US$30M to bid for Venezuela’s Citgo in asset seizure dispute
Gold Reserve (TSXV: GRZ; US-OTC: GDRZF), an exploration company that’s still trying to collect on what it’s owed by Venezuela for a 2008 expropriation of its Brisas gold project, is…
China’s Ganfeng sues Mexico over lithium permit
China’s Ganfeng and two of its subsidiaries in Mexico have initiated an arbitration case against the country’s government over a cancelled mining concession for an advanced lithium project in the state…
Beaty optimistic on Mexico ahead of cross-Canada bike trip to Equinox Gold’s mine opening
Mexico’s new leader is an improvement while Canada should be careful in blocking Chinese investment, according to Ross Beaty, the Canadian Mining Hall of Famer who founded Pan American Silver…
South Africa’s unity rule may boost mining
South Africa’s new coalition government with a pro-business party could help the world’s leading platinum producer improve its troubled power and rail networks getting metal to market, analysts say. The…
Red tape is top threat facing BC mining industry: PwC
Critical metals are a key economic driver for British Columbia’s mining industry, but government regulation, interest rates and inflation threaten opportunities, accounting firm PwC says in a new report. Green…
Australia directs Chinese crit-min backers to divest
Australia has ordered several China-linked investors to sell their 10.4% holding in rare earths project developer Northern Minerals (ASX: NTU) in a move similar to Canada’s two years ago. The…
Video: Agnico’s Hope Bay project plants another flag in Canada’s Arctic, Boyd says
Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) is advancing the former Hope Bay gold mine project in Nunavut as a nation-building measure in Canada’s far north by using the company’s 67 years…
China to build $1.5B copper smelter in Kazakhstan
Copper smelter is projected to have an annual production capacity of 300,000 tonnes.
New technocrat Mexican leader unlikely pro-mining even as she replaces ‘whim and bombast’
Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist, won Mexico’s election to become the country’s first female leader and is expected to continue the anti-mining policies of outgoing President Andres Manuel López Obrador. …
Deep-sea nickel hits battery grade for The Metals Co.
The production of nickel sulfate from polymetallic nodules during tests is believed to be a first in the mining sector.
Codelco and SQM agree on final lithium deal
Chile’s state-run copper miner Codelco and the world’s second-largest lithium producer SQM (NYSE: SQM) inked a definitive agreement on Friday to jointly exploit the country’s vast deposits in the Salar…