BHP to spend up to US$14B in Chilean copper expansion
BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) has outlined its ambitious plans to boost copper production in Chile, aiming to increase output by 430,000 to 540,000 tonnes per year based…
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Jack and Adam Lundin are TNM’s Persons of the Year for 2024
Sometimes a discovery is so big, it takes generations to discover, define and develop – in order to become a mining district that produces metals for future generations. Over the…
TNM names 2024 award winners: Jack and Adam Lundin, Amparo Cornejo, and Ross Beaty
The Northern Miner has named Jack and Adam Lundin as its Persons of the Year for 2024. Amparo Cornejo, chief sustainability officer of Teck Resources, has been chosen as the winner…
‘We’ve moved on,’ BHP says of failed Anglo bid, before walking back comments
BHP’s (ASX: BHP) leadership gave its clearest indication yet that it won’t make another bid for smaller rival Anglo American (LSE: AAL), but later walked back some comments about “moving…
Why choose stocks with large undeveloped deposits?
Before I became a mining analyst and editor at Fat Tail Investment Research in Melbourne, I worked as a geologist in the mining industry. But in all my time writing to…
TNM Drill Down: Australia, Argentina top copper ranking
The Northern Miner has compiled the top 10 drill results year-to-date for major metals, including copper. Drill holes are ranked by copper grade x width. Drilling in the southern hemisphere…
As majors thirst for copper, Filo bid premium seems awfully low
You might have seen the news: BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) has just made its next major copper grab. This time, it’s for the prized Filo del Sol…
BHP, Lundin grab Filo in US$3B South American copper deal
Mining giant BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) and Canada’s Lundin Mining (TSX: LUN) have teamed up to acquire South America-focused Filo Corp. (TSX: FIL), in a US$3-billion ($4.1…
TNM Drill Down: Collective Mining Traps top assay in Colombia
Our TNM Drill Down features highlights of the top gold assays from the April 19-26 period. Drill holes are ranked by gold grade x width, as identified by data company…
Porphyry deposits hold winning trifecta of copper, gold and silver
Copper, gold and silver have been on a tear lately. Here’s the latest year to date performance for these three commodities: It’s this broad lift across different commodity classes (precious…
PDAC 2024: Burzynski on Windfall’s excess; Wabun, O3, Lundin, McConnell also awarded
John Burzynski, Osisko Mining’s (TSX: OSK) chairman and CEO, recalls how exploration drilling at the Windfall gold project in Quebec set a few records and ruined an entire generation of…
PDAC 2024: Some junior miners must die so others may live, panel says
Canada’s once-mighty junior mining sector crumbled after governments squeezed the middle class and let multinationals buy the country’s big miners, a panel of finance experts told mining’s biggest conference this…