Interview: Agnico’s Sean Boyd says Meliadine to produce in Q2 2019
Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) hosted a site visit in late June to its advanced-stage Meliadine gold project in Nunavut, which is expected to start production in the…
Volume 104 Number 16 August 6 – 19, 2018
Wheaton buys gold and palladium stream from Sibanye-Stillwater
Less than a month after paying US$390 million in cash for a cobalt stream from Vale’s (NYSE: VALE) Voisey’s Bay mine on the north coast of Labrador, Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX: WPM; NYSE:…
Kintavar bets on Mitchi in Quebec
Noranda was poking around 300 km north of Montreal, Que., in the 1970s when it drilled into what it believed was a skarn deposit grading around 0.5% copper, and walked…
Firesteel nears production at Laiva in Finland
Firesteel Resources (TSXV: FTR; US-OTC: FIEIF) will start mining its wholly owned, past-producing Laiva gold mine in central Finland this August, just two months after releasing a preliminary economic assessment…
Interview: No need for alarmism in discussing mineral supply, says Simon Jowitt
VANCOUVER — Simon Jowitt is an associate professor of economic geology at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, who researches mineral economics, environmental issues, and the use of mining waste as…