TSX Venture falls, June 24-28: Aurion, Golden Dawn, Itafos
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 1.20% to 585.47 during the June 24-28 trading week. Spot gold rose US$9.90 per oz. or 0.71% to US$1,408.90 per oz. Aurion Resources topped…
Industrial/Specialty Minerals
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…
Glencore to support First Cobalt’s refinery in Ontario
First Cobalt (TSXV: FCC; US-OTC: FTSSF) has taken a major step toward becoming the only producer of refined cobalt in North America. The company, which plans to restart its hydrometallurgical…
Global Energy Metals expands Nevada footprint
Global Energy Metals (TSXV: GEMC; US-OTC: GBLEF) struck an option agreement in January with Nevada Sunrise Gold (TSXV: NEV) to acquire 85% of the historic Lovelock cobalt mine and nearby…
Pala Investments offers $501M for Cobalt 27
Battery metals-focused Cobalt 27 Capital (TSXV: KBLT; US-OTC: CBLLF) has come a long way since listing on the TSX Venture Exchange in June 2017. The company has a cobalt stream…
Snapshot: Eight explorers and miners with ties to Africa
Africa has been long renowned in the mining industry as the continent with many of the largest and richest mineral deposits on Earth. Despite listing commodity prices and some political…
TSX Venture falls, June 10-14: Alexandria, Bonterra, Great Bear, Eagle Graphite
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 1.46% to 587.84 during the trading week. An unsolicited takeover offer for Alexandria Minerals from Agnico Eagle Mines sent the junior’s shares up 66.7%…
Barrick boosts investment in Midas Gold
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) is taking part in a bought-deal offering by Midas Gold (TSX: MAX; US-OTC: MDRPF) to keep its pro rata interest in the junior exploration…
RNC updates large Dumont nickel-cobalt project
Once in production, Dumont would be one of Canada’s largest base metal mines and one of the top-five sulphide nickel producers in the world, RNC Minerals (TSX: RNX) says. The…
Editorial: US Senator Murkowski introduces American Mineral Security Act
United States Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and three Senate colleagues on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources took a bipartisan legislative step in early May to remedy the…
Geomega fine-tunes rare earths recycling technology
Geomega Resources (TSXV: GMA) plans to put Canada on the map as a producer of rare earth elements (REE) — not by building a mine, although it hopes to do…
First Vanadium extends Carlin deposit
First Vanadium (TSXV: FVAN; US-OTC: FVANF) has extended its Carlin vanadium deposit in Nevada by 300 metres to the south with newly acquired historical data. The strike length of the…