Rio Tinto takes strategic stake in Western Copper and Gold
Rio Tinto Canada is investing $25.6 million for an 8% stake in Western Copper and Gold (TSX: WRN; NYSE-AM: WRN), which is advancing its copper-gold Casino project in the Yukon….
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TSX Venture down, May 10-14
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 2.47% to finish the trading week at 931.38. Spot gold increased by US$13.20 per oz., or 0.72%, to US$1,843.90 per ounce. Filo Mining jumped $3.57…
World’s top 10 biggest copper mines
Copper, the highly conductive red metal vital to the manufacturing of products essential to the electrification of the world’s energy systems is also used in heating, cooling, electronics, power generation…
A realistic path for improved carbon performance in mining
The demand for improved environmental and social governance (ESG) continues to intensify. Of the many issues that ESG covers, it is carbon emissions that are receiving the most attention due…
Chinese EV makers may be looking at western markets, CRU report says
China, the country leading global sales of new energy vehicles (NEVs), not only will maintain its market position accounting for half of all expected global NEV during the next decade,…
Analysts voice scepticism on supercycle narrative
Economists are tracking a broad economic recovery across the globe that appears to be gathering momentum and commodity prices are trading at healthy-to-stratospheric levels amid recovering demand from the Covid-19…
Barksdale acquires Arizona copper projects from Rio Tinto
Barksdale Resources (TSXV: BRO) has entered an definitive agreement to acquire two copper exploration projects located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, from Kennecott Exploration Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of…
Mining legacy processes setting the industry behind in sustainability targets – report
A report commissioned by Glasgow-based engineering company the Weir Group warns that the total amount of power used in hard rock mining is equal to 12 exajoules per year or…
Commodities that will rule the green, digital transition
A new report by Fitch Solutions forecasts that some ‘conventional’ commodities will receive an added boost in the next 20 years as they take a central stage in the green…
Rio Tinto shareholders reject former CEO’s exit package
A majority of Rio Tinto’s (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) shareholders oppose the exit package handed to former chief executive Jean-Sébastien Jacques, ousted after the destruction of sacred rock shelters in…
Ivanhoe Mines promises zero emissions at Kamoa-Kakula
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) vowed today to achieve net-zero operational greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1 and 2) at its Kamoa-Kakula joint-venture in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the…
Starr Peak reports results from first drilling campaign on NewMetal
Starr Peak Mining (TSXV: STE; US-OTC: STRPF) has reported initial assays from its first drill program on its NewMetal property in Quebec’s Abitibi greenstone belt, immediately adjacent to the town of…