Ivanhoe Electric shocks Saudi geology to spot targets
Ivanhoe Electric (TSX: IE; NYSE AM: IE) has zapped the ground with its Typhoon surveying system to find drill targets in Saudi Arabia and is content with its project portfolio,…
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Norway approves deep sea mining in Arctic Ocean
Norway’s parliament approved on Tuesday commercial plans to open the Arctic Ocean to seabed mineral exploration, despite environmental groups and the fishing industry’s warnings that the move would risk the…
US Supreme Court nixes Alaska’s bid to keep Pebble project afloat
Shares in Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX: NDM; NYSE: NAK) plummeted Monday after the United States Supreme Court dismissed the state of Alaska’s attempt to keep the Pebble project alive after…
QC Copper says Opemiska resource tops 1.7B lb copper
Shares in QC Copper and Gold (TSXV: QCCU) rose 31% Monday after a resource update for its Opemiska project in Quebec gave it more than 1.7 billion lb. of copper…
First Quantum said to be in talks with Jiangxi over Zambian mines
Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM), which is reeling from the forced closure of its flagship copper mine in Panama, is said to be in talks to sell a stake…
Cordoba rises on US$40M for copper project due to become Colombia’s largest
Shares in Cordoba Minerals (TSXV: CDB; US-OTC: CDB) gained on Thursday after it received a second tranche of US$40 million from China-based partner JCHX Mining Management to advance its Alacran…
Atico shares rise on 25-year extension of La Plata project in Ecuador
Shares of Atico Mining (TSXV: ATY; US-OTC: ATCMF) surged by 13% on Thursday after the company obtained a 25-year extension of the mining concession from the Ecuador government at its…
Barrick, Antofagasta to spend US$95M exploring for copper in Chile
Canada’s Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) and Chilean miner Antofagasta (LSE: ANTO) have partnered up to explore for copper and other metals in the Alto del Carmen area of…
Ivanhoe ships first copper through Angola via railway
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) said its first shipment of copper concentrate from its Kamoa-Kakula copper complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had arrived by rail to…
Teck inks JV deals with AbraSilver and Condor Resources in South America
Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A/TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) will be part of two new copper-gold joint venture projects in South America, its partners announced on Tuesday. In Argentina, a Teck subsidiary has…
The Northern Miner’s top 10 most clicked stories of 2023
As we start 2024, The Northern Miner takes a look back at the top 10 most-clicked stories on our website in 2023. No. 1: Video – Robert Friedland warns we’re ‘on the…
The biggest global mining news of 2023
The mining world was pulled in all directions in 2023: the collapse of lithium prices, furious M&A activity, a bad year for cobalt and nickel, Chinese critical mineral moves, gold’s…