Industrial/Specialty Minerals

A stockpile at BHP Billiton's Illawarra metallurgical coal-mining complex in New South Wales, Australia. Illawarra will be part of the South32 spinoff. Credit: BHP Billiton

BHP spinoff South32 to launch in mid-2015

BHP Billiton’s (LSE: BLT) spinoff company will be named South32, a nod to the location of its assets  in the southern hemisphere and a more cryptic salute to the location of its main offices in Australia and South Africa.


Thompson Creek Metals' Endako molybdenum mine, 190 km west of Prince George, British Columbia. Credit: Thompson Creek Metals

Thompson Creek shutters Endako

VANCOUVER — Rough commodity markets are forcing miners to make tough decisions, and Colorado-based Thompson Creek Metals (TSX: TCM; NYSE: TC) is the most recent operator driven to place a struggling asset on temporary care and maintenance…



Sealing the deal, from left: Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come, Grand Council of Crees; Chief Matthew Wapachee, Cree Nation of Nemaska; and Guy Bourassa, Nemaska Minerals president and CEO. Photo by Trish Saywell.

Cree Nation on board for Nemaska’s Whabouchi lithium mine

THE CREE NATION OF NEMASKA, QUEBEC — It took five years and more than 40 meetings, but Nemaska Lithium (TSXV: NMX; US-OTC: NMKEF) and the Cree Nation of Nemaska have signed an impact benefits agreement (IBA) that paves the way…



Trucks hauling material at Thompson Creek Metals' Mt. Milligan copper-gold mine in northern B.C. Photo by The Northern Miner

Thompson Creek piles up cash in Q3

Thompson Creek Metals (TSX: TCM; NYSE: TC) is improving its operations and balance sheet, despite ending the third quarter in the red.


Ore on a conveyor at Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan's Rocanville potash mine in Saskatchewan. Credit: Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan

PotashCorp eyes stong 2014 finish

Despite Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan’s (TSX: POT; NYSE: POT) third-quarter profit declining 11%, it expects to finish the year on an upbeat note.


TSX advances, Oct. 20-24

The S&P/TSX Composite Index ended the trading week in positive territory, jumping 316 points to 14,543.82, but the gold and diversified miners didn’t follow the upward trend. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index dipped 3 points to…


Orocobre's flagship Salar de Olaroz brine-based lithium project in the Puna region of Argentina's northwestern province of Juyuy. Credit: Orocobre

Orocobre defines new exploration target

Orocobre (TSX: ORL; US-OTC: OROCF) says its flagship Salar de Olaroz brine-based lithium project in the Puna region of Argentina’s northwestern province of Juyuy is expected to produce 17,500 tonnes per year of low-cost, battery-grade…




Workers channel-sampling at Mkango Resources' Songwe Hill REE project in Malawi. Credit: Mkango Resources

Mkango climbs on Malawi’s REE potential

It’s a little unusual for a Canadian junior to skip a preliminary economic assessment and proceed to the prefeasibility stage, but that strategy seems to have worked for Calgary-based Mkango Resources (TSXV: MKA), judging by the…


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