Analysts forecast a mixed bag for commodities amid global 2023 slowdown
Given the tumultuous past two years that saw global markets ebb and flow to extreme degrees, it’s perhaps no surprise that the only thing that’s certain about the 2023 outlook…
Zinc and Lead
Bunker Hill meets underground milestone, preps for mechanized mining
Bunker Hill Mining (CSE: BNKR, OTCQB: BHLL) has completed its underground development ‘breakthrough’ down to the sixth level of its zinc-lead-silver mine in Idaho. The old maintenance shop was demolished…
Endeavour Silver announces 600M oz indicated resource for newly acquired Pitarrilla project
Endeavour Silver (TSX: EDR, NYSE: EXK) filed a technical report for its recently acquired Pitarrilla silver-lead-zinc project in Durango state, Mexico that outlines indicated and inferred resources as of Oct….
Global Exploration Snapshot: Eight companies to watch
While the search for new gold deposits across the world never lets up, explorers are picking up the pace seeking out critical minerals. Here’s a glimpse of eight companies exploring for precious and…
Strategic Metals reports high-grade copper, cobalt and gold mineralization in Yukon
Strategic Metals (TSXV: SMD) has announced high-grade results from its Batt property in southwestern Yukon. Its wholly-owned site covers volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) and overprinting epigenetic vein and fracture hosted,…
Fireweed Metals increases Lundin-backed financing, stock hits 52-week high
Due to strong investor interest, Yukon-focused critical minerals explorer Fireweed Metals‘ (TSXV: FWZ; OTC: FWEDF) says it will increase its previously announced financing to about $35 million. Earlier in the…
HighGold stock rises on best intersection drilled at JT deposit in Alaska
HighGold Mining (TSXV: HIGH, US-OTC: HGGOF) has reported assay results from four infill and expansion drill holes completed at the JT deposit, part of the company’s Johnson Tract polymetallic project…
Austral Gold sells Pinguino project in Argentina to ASX-listed E2 Metals
Austral Gold (TSXV: AGLD; ASX: AGD) is selling its Pinguino polymetallic project in Argentina to E2 Metals (ASX: E2M) for US$10 million in cash and shares, the companies said on…
‘Intransigent’ creditors scuttle sale of Great Panther’s Coricancha, says would-be buyer Newrange
Great Panther Mining (US-OTC: GPLDK) and Newrange Gold (TSXV: NRG) have called off a planned share purchase agreement that would have seen Newrange take full control of the Coricancha gold-silver-lead-zinc-copper mine in Peru. The…
Atalaya Mining stock rises on new discoveries from regional exploration in Spain
Atalaya Mining (TSX: AYM) shares took off on Friday morning following the latest update on its regional exploration program in southern Spain, which included a potential new massive sulphide discovery…
Cascading battery metal supply crunch to get serious from 2024, analysts forecast
Increasing consumption will outstrip the mining industry’s ability to ramp up supply, resulting in commodity deficits as early as 2024, a new analysis by S&P Global has found. The report,…
EDM to modernize mothballed Nova Scotia zinc mine for 2023 restart
Secretariat won the Triple Crown that year, NASA launched Skylab and Watergate intensified.It was 1973, the same year Esso Minerals and Cuvier Mines began developing the Gays River underground zinc…