Haywood lifts gold price forecasts
Haywood Securities has raised its gold price forecast for the second half of 2020 from US$1,650 per oz. to US$1,800 per ounce. Next year, the broker-dealer predicts gold will average…
Volume 106 Number 15 July 20 – August 2, 2020
US government to assess Twin Metals mine proposal
Antofagasta’s (LSE: ANTO) Twin Metals Minnesota has received formal notice that its planned copper-nickel-cobalt-platinum metals mine will be assessed through a federal environmental review. The U.S. government’s Bureau of Land…
Rubicon rebrands as Battle North Gold
Battle North Gold (TSX: BNAU; US-OTC: BNAUF), previously Rubicon Minerals, has released an updated resource estimate for its flagship Bateman gold project, formerly known as Phoenix, which grows the measured…
Sabina expands drill program at Back River
Sabina Gold & Silver (TSX: SBB; US-OTC: SGSVF) has returned to work at its Back River gold project in Nunavut, with an expanded 8,500-metre drill program planned at the 8-km-long…
GoviEx to appeal cancelled uranium license in Zambia
GoviEx Uranium (TSX-V: GXU) says it will appeal Zambia’s decision to terminate its Chirundu mining license. The company acquired the permit in 2017 from African Energy Resources, and it includes…
ScoZinc plans low-cost, open-pit zinc mine near Halifax
ScoZinc Mining (TSXV: SZM) has released the results of a preliminary feasibility study (PFS) on its wholly owned and permitted Scotia mine project, 62 km northeast of Halifax. The study…
79North taps into Suriname’s Guiana Shield
Exploration geologist Jon North was attending Mille Miglia – the annual re-enactment of the classic car race from Brescia in the foothills of the Italian Alps to Rome and back…
KoBold Metals employs big data, geoscientists in pursuit of battery metals
KoBold Metals is investing in battery metal projects using big data and scientific computing with capital from billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. The privately held California-based company has…
Kincora Copper hits mineralization at Trundle in Australia
Kincora Copper (TSXV: KCC) has reported assay results from the first drill hole at its Trundle copper-gold project in Australia. Drill hole TRDD001 intersected several intervals of gold and copper mineralization from skarn…
Victoria Gold begins commercial production at Eagle
Victoria Gold’s (TSX: VGCX) Eagle gold mine in central Yukon reached the commercial production milestone on Canada Day. As of July 1, all of the facilities required for this stage…
Energy Fuels to upgrade uranium processing facility to include rare earths
As the United States pushes to dilute China’s monopoly on rare earths and develop a domestic supply, Colorado-based Energy Fuels (TSX: EFR) is working towards being at the forefront of…
Canadian Mining Symposium closes with Yukon mining panel, featuring Deputy Premier Ranj Pillai
The third and final day of the Canadian Mining Symposium (CMS) closed with a panel discussion featuring the Hon. Ranj Pillai, Deputy Premier, Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources and…