Friedland mulls listing African iron ore company on ASX
Mining magnate Robert Friedland is said to be planning to list his privately owned iron ore company, Ivanhoe Atlantic, on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) next year. The move, the…
Nickel
Vale and China’s GEM say new, US$1.4B Indonesian nickel plant will be net zero
The plant will process nickel laterite ore from the Vale unit into 66,000 tons of mixed hydroxide precipitate annually.
Gold falls after sweeping Trump win boosts dollar
Gold prices fell 2% overnight after Donald Trump won the United States presidency in an election victory that swept across the nation with more support than his 2016 win. Bullion…
Fortescue founder plugs ‘real zero’ ambitions; calls Trump an ‘economic pragmatist’
Fortescue Metals Group (ASX: FMG) founder and executive chairman Andrew Forrest says that both the mining industry and the broader world are gradually embracing the concept of “real zero” over…
US Strategic Metals gets US$100M government loan for Missouri cobalt project
US Strategic Metals said Tuesday that its US$100.8 million loan application has been granted expedited approval by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services in recognition of the potential job…
Magna discovers new high-grade copper zone at Shakespeare in Ontario
Magna Mining (TSXV: NICU; US-OTC: MGMNF) says drilling found new copper mineralization on its Shakespeare project in a joint venture with Glencore (LSE: GLEN) less than 2 km from a feasibility-stage…
Inomin, Sumitomo team up on BC nickel project
Inomin Mines (TSXV: MINE) is partnering with Japan’s Sumitomo Metal Mining to advance the Beaver-Lynx project into what it says could be a major nickel source in British Columbia’s gold-mining…
Trillions needed to achieve net-zero by 2050 — Wood Mackenzie
The world is currently on course for global warming levels between 2.5˚C and 3˚C by the end of the century, far exceeding the 1.5˚C target outlined in the Paris Agreement…
Power Nickel drills 40 metres at 4.2% copper equivalent at Lion zone
Calling it “the biggest intersection yet,” Power Nickel (TSXV: PNPN; OTCBB: PNPNF) has reported that recent drilling at the Lion zone at its Nisk project in Quebec returned 39.6 metres…
Space rock miner lands first US permit
AstroForge, a Los Angeles-based startup with plans to mine asteroids, received on Monday the United States Federal Communications Commission’s first-ever commercial license to operate in deep space. The move sets…
Talon Metals makes new copper-nickel discovery near Eagle mine in Michigan
The company reported 99.92 meters of copper and nickel mineralization from its maiden drill hole at the Boulderdash target.
New film sees mining through Quebec Inuit eyes
The northern Quebec region of Nunavik is the setting for a new documentary on the tussle between Inuit survival on the land and the mining industry’s quest to dig it…