Tariffs, uncertainty, driving nations to tighten grip on critical minerals
Verisk Maplecroft’s Resource Nationalism Index shows a record risk increase in 47 countries since 2020.
Gold
Collective shares hit 12-month peak on high-grade Ramp zone assay
Collective Mining (TSX, NYSE: CNL) shares rose 12.5% Thursday and hit a 12-month high after the company reported the best intercept yet in the recently-discovered Ramp zone at its Guayabales…
PDAC JV Video: Dundee Sustainable’s CLEVR chemistry cuts gold extraction time to an hour
Household chemicals could change gold extraction, especially where cyanide is banned, Dundee Sustainable Technologies (CSE: DST) CEO Jean-Phillipe Mai said. Dundee’s Chlorination Leach in a Vat Reactor (CLEVR) process shuns toxic cyanide in…
Hochschild restores dividend in decade-best results
Precious metals miner Hochschild Mining (LSE: HOC) reported its strongest financial performance since 2012 on Wednesday and restored its dividend thanks to record gold and silver prices in 2024. The South America-focused…
Outcrop Silver logs high grade hits at Santa Ana
Outcrop Silver & Gold (TSXV: OCG; US-OTC: OCGSF) booked hits as high as 1,913 grams silver per tonne from step-out drilling south of the main resource at its Santa Ana…
AbraSilver shares rise on high-grade hits at Diablillos
AbraSilver Resource (TSX: ABRA; US-OTC: ABBRF) cut intervals grading higher than 205 grams silver per tonne in the completed stage four drilling at its Diablillos project in northwest Argentina. Shares…
Meridian hikes Cabaçal gold-copper project value by 71% in Brazil after new study
A new report for Meridian Mining’s (TSX: MNO; US-OTC: MRRDF) Cabaçal gold-copper-silver project in west-central Brazil boosts its post-tax net present value (NPV) more than two-thirds over a 2023 study…
Franco-Nevada’s Panama arbitration set for 2026
Arbitration proceedings between royalty and streaming company Franco-Nevada (TSX, NYSE: FNV) and Panama over the reopening of the $10-billion (C$14.5-billion) Cobre Panama copper mine are moving forward after a tribunal…
US open to DRC minerals deal: reports
The United States is open to talks with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over a deal that would give it access to the African nation’s critical minerals in exchange for…
Video: Nations Royalty taps Indigenous streams amid market saturation, exec says
Nations Royalty (TSXV: NRC) empowers Indigenous communities by pooling royalty streams into a single public company, vice-president for corporate development Kody Penner explains. It’s the first time the business model…
Video: Wheaton forecaster challenges consensus view on gold, PGM prices
Wheaton Precious Metals’ (TSX: WPM, NYSE: WPM; LSE: WPM) market researcher Emil Kalinowski challenges the conventional wisdom on gold, platinum and palladium. He blasts analysts as “crazy” for forecasting falling…
PDAC shows urgency of getting shovels in ground
Time is of the essence if miners are to deliver the minerals needed to power the energy transition. That sense of urgency was front and centre this week as Toronto…