NioBay seeks partners to advance Crevier project
Junior explorer NioBay Metals (TSXV: NBY; US-OTC: NBYCF) is looking for financial backers to speed up development of its Crevier niobium-tantalum project in northern Quebec and pave the way for…
Specialty Minerals
Grid Metals’ atomic-clock cesium resource in Manitoba ranks second globally
Grid Metals (TSX: GRDM; US-OTC: MSMGF) has outlined an initial resource that positions the company’s Falcon West property in Manitoba as the world’s second-largest cesium resource actively being developed by Western-based…
Space miners may face an Earth-sized tax problem
Miners may one day extract fortunes from the Moon and asteroids, but governments will have to figure out how to take their cut without killing the industry before it gets…
SW US Spotlight 2: Rio, Teck, Newmont back juniors
Three major miners are backing junior explorers advancing copper projects in the U.S. Southwest, while a fourth company is pushing to become a domestic antimony and gold producer. Teck Resources…
Sponsored video: AME urges tax fix to advance projects
A gap in Canada’s exploration tax incentives is making it harder to finance the studies needed to turn mineral discoveries into mines, the Vancouver-based Association for Mineral Exploration says in…
Drone wars deepen West’s critical minerals squeeze
Drones deployed in the Russia-Ukraine war account for an estimated 4% of global germanium demand, adding pressure to a small critical minerals market dominated by China, according to BMO Capital…
Court ruling backs Perpetua’s $1.3B Stibnite build
Perpetua Resources (TSX, Nasdaq: PPTA) is pressing ahead with early construction at its Stibnite gold-antimony project in Idaho after a U.S. federal court upheld key approvals against an environmental challenge….
Antimony: The fire safety, defence and energy metal
What’s so special about antimony? Antimony is among a handful of metals that have been used for thousands of years. The ancients used it in cosmetics such as the eyeliner…
Scandium Canada hits long runs as it preps update
Drill results from Scandium Canada’s (TSXV: SCD) Crater Lake project in northern Quebec have returned assays as strong as 13.4 metres grading 315 parts per million (ppm) scandium, as the…
Gen Z warms to mining as labour crunch looms
Canada’s mining industry is attracting more young people just as it faces a much bigger problem: finding enough workers to staff a new generation of mines. A new Mining Industry…
Podcast: Mineral War — China’s grand plan to dominate metals markets, ft Tomasz Nadrowski
This week’s episode features portfolio manager Tomasz Nadrowski, author of Mineral War: China’s Quest for Weapons of Mineral Destruction, in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on China’s resource strategy over…
Friedland’s forgotten metal wins $400M US backing
After more than two decades, billionaire Robert Friedland’s plans of developing a scandium mine in New South Wales (NSW) look to be finally coming to fruition. Sunrise Energy Metals (ASX:…