JV Video: Metal Energy pursues lithium, nickel in Canada
Metal Energy (TSXV: MERG; US-OTC: MEEEF) plans to start drilling on its Source Rock lithium brine project in northwest Ontario in December, CEO James Sykes says. The circa 2,000-sq.-km site…
Battery metals
Rinehart may block SQM’s $1B takeover bid of Azure Minerals
Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart, who recently thwarted Albemarle’s (NYSE: ALB) attempt to buy Liontown Resources (ASX: LTR), is now said to be evaluating ways to block Chilean lithium giant SQM’s A$1.6…
CMS: How to fix ‘everyone needs us but no one likes us’
The industry must confront its dark past of disasters to attract new investors and offer project stakes to local towns to improve environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Those were…
Australia boosts critical minerals fund by over $1B to draw international investors
The Australian government plans to double the amount of money on offer to A$2 billion ($1.7 billion) in support of critical minerals projects as it works to attract American miners…
Video: TMX panel discusses hard ESG issues
Mining companies face difficult decisions about environmental, social and governance issues to attract new investors, according to a panel sponsored by The TMX Group at The Northern Miner’s Canadian Symposium…
Horizonte Minerals in talks to fund nickel project overrun
Horizonte Minerals (TSX: HZM) said on Monday that it’s holding talks with major shareholders and lenders to solve the current funding gap for the company’s Araguaia nickel project in northern…
Atlantic Lithium gets go-ahead for Ghana’s first battery metal mine
Atlantic Lithium (ASX: A11) has the green light to develop Ghana’s first lithium operation after its local subsidiary received a mining permit for its flagship Ewoyaa project. The 15-year permit…
Asteroid mining startup to launch mission in early 2024
AstroForge, a U.S.-based startup with plans to mine asteroids, is fine-tuning details for the launch of a spacecraft in the first quarter of next year, which would make it the…
Video: Robert Friedland warns we’re ‘on the verge of destroying ourselves as a species’
Robert Friedland arrived fresh off a flight from Mongolia just in time to be the last keynote speaker of The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium in London, U.K., Oct. 12-13. …
Codelco makes first foray into lithium with US$245M deal for Aussie developer
Chilean state-owned copper miner Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, has reached a deal with Lithium Power International (ASX: LPI) to buy the Australian producer of the battery metal for…
CMS: Friedland mocks lithium but touts battery tech
Robert Friedland, billionaire founder and executive co-chair of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN), criticized lithium mining at a London conference, ridiculed the West’s green energy transition and urged prayer to end the…
Raising capital now biggest risk to mining companies after ESG, says EY report
Global mining and metals executives still view environment, social and governance (ESG) as the top risk facing their business over the next 12 months, but access to capital has now…