First Vanadium improves vanadium resource at Carlin
First Vanadium (TSXV: FVAN; US-OTC: FVANF) has calculated a new and improved resource estimate for its 4.6 sq. km Carlin vanadium project, 10 km south of Elko, Nevada. The project…
Industrial/Specialty Minerals
Advantage Lithium doubles resource at Cauchari in Argentina
After completing its phase two and three drill programs at its flagship Cauchari lithium project in Jujuy, Argentina, Advantage Lithium (TSXV: AAL; US-OTC: AVLIF) has more than doubled the project’s…
Base Metals & Battery Minerals Snapshot: Seven juniors exploring for base metals and battery minerals
Exploration for base metals has taken on a new urgency in the last couple of years, as the electric vehicle revolution proceeds apace, with its need for substantially more copper…
QMC confirms spodumene in first holes at Irgon
QMC Quantum Minerals (TSXV: QMC; US-OTC: QMCQF) has visually identified spodumene in the first diamond holes it has drilled into its Irgon lithium project in the Cat Lake-Winnipeg River rare-element…
Alphamin nears production at Bisie in DRC
Alphamin Resources (TSXV: AFM; US-OTC: AFMJF) is nearing production at its Bisie tin project in North Kivu, a province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo…
Katanga Q4 loss on suspended cobalt sales, higher costs
Katanga Mining (TSX: KAT; US-OTC: KATFF) lost $116 million in 2018’s fourth quarter to end the year with $13.4 million in gross profit, a result of temporary cobalt sale suspensions,…
Cost-overruns sink shares of Nemaska Lithium
Eight months after the start of construction of its Whabouchi lithium project in Quebec, Nemaska Lithium (TSX: NMX; US-OTC: NMKEF) says it will cost another $375 million to complete the…
Bolivia’s door creaks open to foreign mining investment
SANTIAGO, CHILE — A first-of-its kind deal between Bolivia’s state mining company Comibol and Vancouver-based explorer New Pacific Metals (TSXV: NUAG; US-OTC: NUPMF) promises to usher in a new period of…
United States Snapshot: Ten companies with projects on the go in the USA
Mining and mineral exploration in the U.S. has been on an uptick in recent years, thanks to higher gold and silver prices, and an easing in some regulatory burdens. Here’s…
First Cobalt extends mineralization at Iron Creek in Idaho
First Cobalt (TXSV: FCC; US-OTC: FTSSF) has extended copper-cobalt mineralization along strike at both its Waite zone and No Name zone, part of its Iron Creek cobalt project in Idaho….
TSX Venture dips, Feb 4-8: Max Resources, Bonterra Resources, Redzone Resources
The TSX/S&P Venture Composite Index slipped 1.7% to end the trading week at 611.94. Shares of Max Resource rose 111% to 38¢. The company recently expanded the zone through surface…
American Lithium drilling Nevada claystones
American Lithium (TSXV: LI; US-OTC: LIACF) is about to drill its 6.3 sq. km Tonopah lithium claystone (TLC) project near Tonopah, Nevada. Over the next six weeks the company will…