CanAlaska shareholders OK nickel spinout
CanAlaska Uranium (TSXV: CVV; US-OTC: CVVUF) has received shareholder approval to spin out its five nickel properties into a new wholly owned subsidiary known as Core Nickel. CanAlaska will transfer…
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JV Video: Metal Energy pursues lithium, nickel in Canada
Metal Energy (TSXV: MERG; US-OTC: MEEEF) plans to start drilling on its Source Rock lithium brine project in northwest Ontario in December, CEO James Sykes says. The circa 2,000-sq.-km site…
Video: How Quebec fosters symbiotic relationships with miners
Quebec expects to capitalize on the emerging North America-based critical mineral supply chain from mines to battery cells, The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium heard this month in London. “The…
Bravo Mining’s Luanga initial resource grows tonnages by up to 62%
Brazil-focused explorer Bravo Mining (TSXV: BRVO; US-OTC: BRVMF) shares surged on Monday after the company announced an initial resource estimate for its Luanga palladium-platinum-rhodium-gold-nickel project located in Pará state. The…
Horizonte Minerals in talks to fund nickel project overrun
Horizonte Minerals (TSX: HZM) said on Monday that it’s holding talks with major shareholders and lenders to solve the current funding gap for the company’s Araguaia nickel project in northern…
Canadian mining capex reached decade high in 2022
Capital spending in Canada’s mining industry increased by 14% to $13.5 billion last year, its highest in a decade, the latest figures published by Natural Resources Canada showed. The sector’s…
Why junior explorers will emerge from the dust
No doubt 2023 has been a difficult year for the junior mining sector. Across the board we’ve seen small-cap explorers sell-down toward multi-year lows. A decade of underinvestment in new…
Asteroid mining startup to launch mission in early 2024
AstroForge, a U.S.-based startup with plans to mine asteroids, is fine-tuning details for the launch of a spacecraft in the first quarter of next year, which would make it the…
Video: Robert Friedland warns we’re ‘on the verge of destroying ourselves as a species’
Robert Friedland arrived fresh off a flight from Mongolia just in time to be the last keynote speaker of The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium in London, U.K., Oct. 12-13. …
Ontario snapshot: Seven companies in discovery and development mode
From the nickel hotbed of the Sudbury Basin to the high-grade gold of Red Lake and newer critical metal discoveries in between, Ontario hosts some of the world’s most productive…
CMS: Friedland mocks lithium but touts battery tech
Robert Friedland, billionaire founder and executive co-chair of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN), criticized lithium mining at a London conference, ridiculed the West’s green energy transition and urged prayer to end the…
Canada Nickel’s Crawford feasibility pegs capex at US$3.5B, mine life at 41 years
Canada Nickel Company (TSXV: CNC; US- OTC: CNIKF) has released the results of a feasibility study for its Crawford nickel sulphide project, outlining an operation with capital costs of US$3.5…