Top-10 base metals, uranium explorers and developers in Canada
The Northern Miner has compiled a list of the top-10 base metal and uranium juniors — with no production, and which are not a royalty company — headquartered in Canada,…
Copper
US markets rise, July 8-12: Rio Tinto, Eldorado, Vale
Spot gold prices ended at US$1,407.60 per oz., up US$18.95 or 1.4% from the previous week. The yellow metal has spent the past three weeks trading around US$1,400 after making…
Rockcliff gears up to drill in Snow Lake
At the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention in Toronto in March 2018, Rockcliff Metals (CSE: RCLF) was a struggling junior with a large land package in the…
Teck advances QB2 copper project in Chile
If all goes according to plan in northern Chile, Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) and its partners Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo will start commissioning and ramping up their…
Top-10 Canadian miners by market cap
The Northern Miner presents the top-10, Canada-headquartered mining companies by market capitalization, as of early July 2019. 1. Nutrien Market cap: $41.8 billion Nutrien (TSX: NTR; NYSE: NTR) is the…
Generation options Sibanye-Stillwater’s Marathon
Financier Jamie Levy and mine builder Kerry Knoll have kept busy since selling Pine Point Mining and its zinc project in the Northwest Territories last year to Osisko Metals (TSXV:…
Yamana’s Marrone on where gold companies can find value propositions
At The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium, held at Canada House in London, U.K., Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY) executive chairman Peter Marrone spoke on the many changes at…
Japan Gold drills Ohra–Takamine project
Japan closed all 76 of its gold mines during World War II, and reallocated personnel to base metal mines and factories. After the war, it only reopened 12 of the…
Glencore confirms 19 artisanal miners dead in DRC
Glencore (LON: GLEN) says 19 illegal artisanal miners have died, “with possible further unconfirmed fatalities,” when two galleries caved in at Kamoto Copper Co.’s KOV open-pit copper mine in the…
Argentina court upholds glacier protection law
SANTIAGO, CHILE — In a landmark ruling, Argentina’s Supreme Court has upheld radical legislation to protect the country’s glaciers, with major implications for the mining industry. The 2012 law aims…
Ivanhoe advances ‘world’s best copper development’ at Kamoa-Kakula
It would not be a stretch to suggest Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) executive co-chairman Robert Friedland is probably the world’s best mining promoter. The Friedland legend started to…
Facts ‘n’ Figures: World copper mine production falls 1.8% in early 2019, ICSG says
The following is an edited release from the International Copper Study Group (ICSG) showing preliminary data for world copper supply and demand for February 2019. For more detailed information, visit www.icsg.org….