PDAC: Ottawa details $1.5B road, power fund
Canada officially launched on Tuesday a $1.5-billion First and Last Mile infrastructure fund that had been outlined in November’s federal budget to get metals from mines to markets. The earmarked…
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Bolivia minister pledges ‘legal certainty’ for investors
Bolivia’s new mining minister is vowing to woo back foreign investors in silver, tin and lithium who fled two decades of Socialist Party rule. “We are going to work hard to provide the legal certainty that investors as well as…
PDAC due for investor surge as mining ‘has its moment’
A buoyant BMO metals conference this week marked by rising prices, disciplined miners and renewed deal talk is setting the stage for the world’s largest mining convention starting Sunday in…
Mexican security risks highlighted in new reports
Escalating security risks and a legacy of lengthy project approvals are increasing investor scrutiny of mining exposure to Mexico, TD Cowen says. Recent incidents linked to cartel activity — such…
Chile’s right-wing pivot puts mining policy under microscope
Chile is entering a new political phase as a right-wing government prepares to take office, putting mining policy under renewed scrutiny in the world’s largest copper-producing country. In recent years,…
Hycroft Mining extends climb on Sprott share buy
Hycroft Mining Holding (Nasdaq: HYMC) soared for a second straight day Wednesday after a securities filing revealed that Canadian billionaire Eric Sprott has continued to buy the stock despite its…
Ero Copper eyes $2B value, 24-year life for Furnas
A maiden preliminary economic assessment for Ero Copper‘s (TSX, NYSE: ERO) Furnas project in Brazil puts a $2 billion value on an operation that could supply metal for almost a…
Roundup Video: PJX chases source of storied Sullivan-style boulders
PJX Resources (TSXV: PJX) is hunting for the bedrock source of Sullivan-style zinc-lead-silver mineralization at its Dewdney Trail property near Cranbrook, B.C. Exploration found more than 60 semi-massive sulphide boulders…
Lundin Gold sells silver stream to LunR in $670M deal
Lundin Gold (TSX: LUG) said it will sell a silver stream on its Fruta del Norte mine in Ecuador in return for newly issued shares of LunR Royalties (TSX-V: LUNR)…
AngloGold invests $39M in Thesis for 5% stake
AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) has taken up a 5% stake in Thesis Gold (TSXV: TAU), whose main project is the Lawyers-Ranch site in northern British Columbia. The major is to…
Anglo Asian expects copper output to triple in 2026
Anglo Asian Mining (LSE: AAZ) said on Wednesday it expects to raise its copper production about three-fold in 2026, its first full year as a multi-asset producer. The company historically…
BHP-Lundin Vicuña JV’s copper-gold district potential hits $9B value
A new study for the Vicuña joint venture between BHP (ASX, LSE, NYSE: BHP) and Lundin Mining (TSX: LUN) that straddles the Argentina-Chile border positions the 70-year copper-gold-silver project in the…