Sibanye-Stillwater ditches $1B Brazil copper and nickel deal
Sibanye-Stillwater (NYSE: SBSW; JSE: SSW) has walked away from a US$1 billion deal to acquire the Santa Rita nickel and Serrote copper mines in Brazil, which would have boosted its…
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Ivanhoe Mines to produce 340,000 tonnes of copper at DRC mine in 2022
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) said on January 10 that it expects to produce between 290,000 to 340,000 tonnes of copper in concentrate in 2022 at its Kamoa-Kakula copper…
Allkem releases feasibility study for James Bay lithium project in Quebec
Allkem (TSX: AKE; ASX: AKE) has released a feasibility study for its James Bay hard rock lithium project in Quebec, located 130 km east of James Bay and the Cree Nation of…
Lundin Mining to acquire Josemaria Resources for $625 million
Lundin Mining (TSX: LUN) is acquiring Josemaria Resources (TSX: JOSE) for about $625 million for its namesake copper-gold project in San Juan, Argentina. The Canadian miner is acquiring the company for $1.60 a…
Future of Canada’s off-grid mines crucial to decarbonization, says MAC’s Brendan Marshall
Brendan Marshall is a Vice President, Economic and Northern Affairs, at the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) and works to advance the industry’s understanding of energy, climate change, taxation and…
Strong EV sales will buoy battery metal prices next year
Electric vehicle sales have surged nearly 90% so far this year and will likely jump by 40% year-on-year in 2022, economist Patricia Mohr tells The Northern Miner. The former vice-president…
Sigma Lithium kicks off construction of largest hard rock project in the Americas
Sigma Lithium (TSXV: SGML; NASDAQ: SGML) has begun building the production plant foundation and infrastructure for its Grota do Cirilo lithium project in Brazil, the largest hard rock lithium deposit in…
Renewables adoption speed still too slow to limit climate crisis — IEA
Growth in renewable energy is set to hit an all-time record this year, but is still falling “well short” of what is necessary to reach net zero emissions by 2050,…
More than US$2 trillion investment needed to meet IEA hydrogen targets
More than US$2 trillion of investment would be required in equipment and infrastructure to sustain the accelerating global momentum towards establishing hydrogen as a competitive element of a net-zero carbon…
Exploration Projects to Watch Snapshot: Eight companies on the lookout for new deposits
Mining companies are scouring the globe to find new deposits and future mines. Here’s a list of eight companies hunting for base and precious metals around the world. AURION RESOURCES…
Canada Nickel expands footprint in Ontario with 13 new properties
Canada Nickel Company (TSXV: CNC) has concluded 18 separate transactions resulting in the outright acquisition or earn-in to 13 additional properties within a 95 km radius of the company’s flagship…
Canada’s Saskatchewan adds lithium to mining portfolio
Prairie Lithium, a private lithium resource and technology developer situated in the heart of Saskatchewan’s resource-rich Williston Basin, reached a milestone this week as it finished drilling the province’s first…