Rio picks iron ore boss Trott as new CEO
Rio Tinto (ASX, LSE: RIO) has chosen Simon Trott, head of the company’s iron ore unit, as its new CEO, selecting a 20-year company veteran to steer the mining giant…
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Canada Nickel deposits akin to ‘Sudbury’s endowment’
New initial resources for Canada Nickel’s (TSXV: CNC; US-OTC: CNIKF) deposits add almost 275 million measured and indicated tonnes to the company’s portfolio, with the Texmont deposit boasting grades higher…
Veteran pol, tech pioneer to lead AME
The Association for Mineral Exploration (AME) in British Columbia has named Todd Stone, a veteran provincial politician and software startup founder, as its new president and CEO. He takes office Aug….
Critical Metals soars on Greenland REE drilling
Critical Metals (Nasdaq: CRML) has launched a 2,000-metre drilling program aimed at expanding the resource at its Tanbreez rare earth project in Greenland ahead of a feasibility study. Its shares…
Gold price outlook strong amid unknowns: council
Gold remains a top-performing asset heading into the second half of 2025, with prices up 26% year-to-date, according to the World Gold Council’s mid-year outlook. The surge is driven by…
MP Materials soars on $500M from Apple
Pentagon-backed MP Materials (NYSE: MP), the United States’ only producer of rare earth elements, has struck a $500-million deal with tech giant Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) to secure domestic supplies for…
Gladiator cuts 1.1% copper from surface in Yukon
Gladiator Metals (TSXV: GLAD; US-OTC: GDTRF) says it intersected shallow copper at the Best Chance prospect on a 35-km long company property in the Yukon. Hole ACG-009 cut about 77 metres grading…
Namib eyes $400M to restart Zim gold mines
Namib Minerals (Nasdaq: NAMM) is looking to invest as much as $400 million to bring two of its mothballed gold mines in southern Zimbabwe back to production, according to media…
JV article: How FM defuses one of mining’s most missed risks
As one of the world’s largest commercial and industrial property insurers, FM offers a market specialty in safeguarding large mining businesses by bringing core technical knowledge around protection and risk…
Two of BC’s biggest gold projects face off in court
Tudor Gold (TSXV: TUD) is taking Seabridge Gold (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SA) and British Columbia’s Chief Gold Commissioner (CGC) to court over contested tunnels at its Treaty Creek project. The…
Study bumps value by 21% for B2Gold’s Gramalote
A new feasibility study for B2Gold’s (TSX: BTO; NYSE: BTG) Gramalote open pit project in central Colombia lifts the net present value (NPV) by 21% while it cuts capital costs…
Site visit: Blue Lagoon reopens Dome Mountain
Blue Lagoon Resources (CSE: BLLG; US-OTC: BLAGF) reopened the Dome Mountain mine in British Columbia this month, more than 30 years after the last major exploration activity at the gold-silver property. Located…