Editorial: Indonesia to ban nickel ore exports in 2020
Indonesia has confirmed it will ban exports of nickel ore from January 2020 — two years earlier than expected. The Southeast Asian nation is the world’s largest nickel ore producer,…
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Horizonte shares rise on Orion financing
Orion Mine Finance is handing over US$25 million in cash in exchange for a 2.25% royalty on Horizonte Minerals’ (TSX: HZM; AIM: HZM) Araguaia project in Brazil, one of the…
Mystery nickel buyer could restart First Quantum’s Ravensthorpe
First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM; LSE: FQM) management says it could have a buyer for any nickel produced from a restart of the venerable Ravensthorpe nickel-cobalt mine at Bandalup Hill…
TSX Venture down, Aug. 5-9: SilverCrest; Chesapeake Gold; Garibaldi Resources; Barksdale Capital
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 0.49% to 592.82 during the trading week. SilverCrest Metals recorded the biggest value gain, rising $1.08, or 15.3%, to $8.16 per share. The company…
Top 10 Canada-based companies with substantial US assets
The U.S. is fertile ground for a variety of minerals, and Canadian companies are active throughout the land. The Northern Miner presents its top-10 list of the biggest Canada-based firms with…
Geology Corner: Deposits that host the world’s base metals
The earth has many unique ways of stripping base metals from its crust and concentrating them into deposits. Over the course of civilization, humans have uncovered seven main types: sediment-hosted…
Base Metals Snapshot: Eight companies advancing projects around the globe
As the global demand for base metals grows, mining companies are on the hunt for new deposits that they can develop into operating mines. Here are eight companies with significant…
Editorial: Yukon’s geology remains under-explored
The annual tour of mining camps in the Yukon sponsored by the Yukon Mining Alliance (75%) and the Government of Yukon (25%) never fails to impress, and this year’s trip…
RNC expands Beta Hunt with resource update
Infill and exploration drilling in the Western Flanks Zone of the Beta Hunt gold mine in Western Australia has boosted measured and indicated resources fivefold and inferred resources threefold, RNC Minerals (TSX:…
Top-10 Canadian miners by market cap
The Northern Miner presents the top-10, Canada-headquartered mining companies by market capitalization, as of early July 2019. 1. Nutrien Market cap: $41.8 billion Nutrien (TSX: NTR; NYSE: NTR) is the…
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…
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…