Western Copper rolls back Casino permitting plans to 2025
Western Copper and Gold (TSX: WRN; NYSE: WRN) is planning to delay the submission of a key environmental permitting document for its Casino project in Yukon in the wake of…
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Video: World Gold Council sees market uncertainty raising metal’s price
Despite gold’s strong performance in the year’s first half, Western investors largely remained on the sidelines, Joe Cavatoni, senior market strategist for the World Gold Council, said in an interview….
Australia’s ERA scores win in battle to keep uranium lease
Australia’s Federal Court has temporarily halted the government’s decision to not extend Rio Tinto-owned Energy Resources of Australia‘s (ASX: ERA) lease for a high-grade uranium deposit in the country’s Northern Territory….
Confusion and consternation on critical minerals
What started out as optimism two years ago when the federal government turned its eye to critical minerals, introducing a strategy, incentives and funding, and pledging faster permitting for mines,…
Video: Tough markets leading some juniors to pad project potential, Doug Silver warns
The quality of disclosures in junior mining – a sector that in the past was rife with shady stock promoters – has improved over the past four decades, says Douglas…
Australia rejects Rio Tinto unit’s uranium mine lease renewal
Decision ends a decades-long dispute over Jabikula, one of the world’s largest untapped deposits of high-grade uranium.
Deep sea miner TMC plans to be ready to apply for licence
Canada’s The Metals Company (NASDAQ: TMC) plans to be ready to apply for a licence to start mining the seabed before the end of this year, with production expected to…
‘We can raise more money in the Middle East,’ says junior that left Canada for UAE
The graphite junior that redomiciled to the United Arab Emirates to access funding amid Canada’s clampdown on Chinese investment in critical minerals says it’s the first junior to do so,…
The Metals Company faces complaint to SEC over deep sea mining plans
The Metals Company (NASDAQ: TMC) is under fire from three civil society groups for its deep sea mining project in the Clarion Clipperton zone of the Pacific Ocean between Mexico…
Video: Paladin eyes ‘world-class’ Fission asset amid growing uranium demand
In June, Australia’s Paladin Energy (ASX; PDN; US-OTC: PALAF) launched a $1.1-billion all-share bid for Fission Uranium (TSX: FCU; US-OTC: FCUUF) and its “world-class” Patterson Lake South project in Saskatchewan. …
Vale Metals appoints mining veteran Shaun Usmar as CEO
Vale Base Metals, Vale‘s (NYSE: VALE) Canadian-based spinout of its metals business created last year, has appointed mining veteran Shaun Usmar as its new chief executive officer. Usmar brings over…
Rio Tinto ready to build Simandou after almost 30 years of setbacks
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) says it has all necessary regulatory approvals to resume construction at its vast Simandou iron ore asset, the world’s biggest mining project,…