NexMetals rises on strong copper-nickel hits
NexMetals Mining (TSXV: NEXM; US-OTC: PRMLD), fresh off its name change from Premium Resources, reported drill results as high as 13.5 metres grading 1.13% copper and 1.25% nickel at its…
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Central Asia Metals ups offer for New World
The takeover battle for Australian copper developer New World Resources (ASX: NWC) is heating up after Central Asia Metals (LSE: CAML) raised its offer shortly after Canada’s Kinterra Capital made…
Kodiak Copper’s MPD resource stacks up against major BC porphyries
Kodiak Copper (TSX-V: KDK, OTCQB: KDKCF) released its first resource figures for the MPD copper-gold project in southern British Columbia. The new estimate, released late Wednesday, covers four of seven…
PDAC JV Video: Namib Minerals preps to reopen gold mines in Zimbabwe
Namib Minerals is working to expand and restart three gold mines in Zimbabwe to help fund its critical mineral ambitions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), CEO Ibrahima Tall…
BC’s Golden Triangle taps gov’t investment, new rules
British Columbia’s Golden Triangle, despite its remoteness and rough terrain, is thriving thanks to a mining revival, attracting both exploration minnows and major miners. The prospective region is about 500…
Juniors chase ounces, cash flow
Juniors must deliver resource growth, production gains and technological edge to capture capital, according to participants at this month’s Mining Investment Event of the North in Quebec City. The Northern…
Silver X secures $2M from Trafigura to support Peru copper expansion
Silver X Mining (TSXV: AGX; US-OTC: AGXPF) has secured a $2-million loan from commodities trading giant Trafigura to support the expanded production of copper from its Nueva Recuperada project in…
Magna’s Crean Hill nickel project granted $500K
Magna Mining (TSXV: NICU; US-OTC: MGMNF) has been awarded $500,000 by the Ontario government for the company’s brownfield Crean Hill nickel-copper-platinum group metals project. The award is part of the…
Citizens rally to reopen Cobre Panama copper mine
Thousands of former workers, members of supplier companies and residents around First Quantum Minerals’ (TSX: FM) giant Cobre Panama copper mine rallied for the government to reopen the major employer…
New study gives Ivanhoe Electric’s Santa Cruz copper project $1.4B value
A new preliminary feasibility study (PFS) for Ivanhoe Electric’s (TSX, NYSE: IE) Santa Cruz copper project in Arizona gives the proposed mine an after-tax net present value (NPV) of $1.4…
Trafigura backs Euro Sun’s Rovina Valley with $200M financing deal
Euro Sun Mining (TSXV: ESM; US-OTC: ESMNF) has lined up a $200-million loan package, with backing from global commodities trader Trafigura, to help finance its Rovina Valley gold-copper project in…
Glencore urges Aus support to save Mount Isa smelter
Glencore (LSE: GLEN) has declared its Mount Isa copper smelter unviable and is awaiting a response from Australia’s federal and Queensland’s governments regarding requests for financial assistance to keep the…