Norway to open its waters to deep-sea mining
The Norwegian government outlined on Tuesday details of a plan to open its sea floor for commercial mineral exploration and extraction, targeting metals considered essential for the transition to a…
Nickel
Mining deal-making declines, but Beaty and others see opportunities
As the value of mining industry mergers and acquisitions falls from last year’s high, some investors see divergent trends moderating conditions. They say share prices are reasonable or low for…
EV Nickel doubles Shaw Dome resource near Timmins
An updated resource at EV Nickel’s (TSXV: EVNI) Shaw Dome project in northern Ontario adds more than 24 million tonnes of contained metal to the W4 deposit over a previous…
Appian sells nickel-copper mines in Brazil to ACG for US$1 billion
Private equity firm Appian Capital Advisory is selling its wholly owned Atlantic Nickel and Mineração Vale Verde operations in Brazil to ACG Acquisition Co. (LSE: ACG) for US$1 billion cash….
Ero Copper expands into nickel at Caraíba in Brazil, plans to double copper output
Brazil-focused Ero Copper (TSX: ERO; NYSE: ERO) is reporting new drill results for nickel targets at Caraíba as it advances the Tucumã project to double the company’s copper output by…
GMS Video: How Power Nickel combines new tech, Quebec financing to snag a major’s interest
Terry Lynch, CEO of Power Nickel, says he’s using novel sonar technology to update a resource estimate in September at the Nisk project in Quebec, but a major player may…
GMS: Quebec touts millions of government funding for battery metal projects
Quebec is becoming known for mining project funding that hands out several hundred million dollars a year and promotes the province as a battery metals hotspot. The province’s funding structure…
Labour costs will soon beat oil as mine’s biggest expense, new data indicate
Labour costs are replacing oil products as a mine’s most expensive item as inflation impacts operating expenses more than capital costs, new reports show. Wages for some copper and gold…
World’s first marketplace for authenticated recycled metals has launched
While demand for secondary metals is predicted to overtake primary metals within the next 20 years, and with 400 million tonnes of metal recycled annually, there is still no globally recognized, standardized authentication…
Canada Nickel cuts grades greater than 1% at Texmont
Results from the last 11 holes of Canada Nickel Company’s (TSXV: CNC) winter drill program returned high-grade and near-surface nickel mineralization at its Texmont project in northern Ontario. Seven of…
Nickel Creek boosts metal estimate by nearly a third to 2.5 billion pounds at Yukon project
Nickel Creek Platinum (TSX: NCP; US-OTC: NCPCF) says a new resource estimate increases metal by almost a third at its Nickel Shaw project in southwest Yukon. Contained nickel in the measured…
Renewable energy capacity to hit record growth in 2023 – IEA
Renewable power capacity will grow by a record number this year as more robust government policies around fossil fuels and energy security concerns drive more clean energy deployment, the International…