Vale faces ‘serious reputational risk’ following dam disaster: Moody’s
Potential liabilities from the collapse of a tailings dam at Vale’s Feijao iron ore mine in Brazil that has left at least 99 people dead and another 250 people missing…
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AME Roundup: Rio Tinto on the lookout for BC porphyry deposits
VANCOUVER — British Columbia is known for its coal and copper-gold deposits, with a storied history of mining all three commodities. Now the second largest mining company in the world…
AME Roundup: BC exploration tax credits made permanent
VANCOUVER — Miners and explorers in British Columbia hit paydirt on Monday, with B.C. Premier John Horgan announcing that two investment-friendly tax credits would be made permanent and no longer…
Ivanhoe drills Kamoa-Kakula’s best intersection to date
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) has drilled what it’s calling an “unprecedented” intersection in a shallow, flat lying deposit at the Kamoa North exploration area on its 397-sq.-km Kamoa-Kakula…
Osisko Metals releases more high-grade drill results from Pine Point
Osisko Metals (TSXV: OM) has released new drill results from its high-grade, large tonnage and near-surface Pine Point zinc-lead deposit on the south shore of Great Slave Lake in the…
Editorial: Tailings spill at Feijao is Vale’s worst yet, with 84 dead, 276 missing
Here we go again. With memories still fresh of Vale and BHP’s deadly Samarco iron ore tailings disaster in Mariana, Brazil in November 2015 — which killed 19 people —…
Bluestone tables feasibility study at Cerro Blanco
Bluestone Resources (TSXV: BSR; US-OTC: BBSRF) has tabled a feasibility study for its Cerro Blanco gold project in Guatemala that states the project would produce 902,000 oz. gold over an…
Great Panther Silver boosts resource at Topia mine in Mexico
Great Panther Silver (TSX: GPR; NYSE American: GPL) has increased the measured and indicated resource at its Topia silver-gold-lead-zinc mine in Mexico’s Durango state to nearly 15 million silver-equivalent ounces….
Uranium Energy lays groundwork for market recovery
Over the last two years, Uranium Energy (NYSE-AM: UEC) has taken advantage of the downturn in uranium markets and acquired uranium projects in the Powder River basin of Wyoming, Canada’s…
Goldcorp expects higher production in 2019
Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) expects to produce more silver, zinc, lead and gold equivalent ounces in 2019 compared to 2018. The company, which is currently merging with Newmont (NYSE:…
Feds approve Argonaut’s environmental assessment for Magino
Canada’s federal government has approved the environmental assessment of Argonaut Gold ’s (TSX: AR) Magino project in Ontario. The open-pit project must still receive provincial government approval for the EA…
UxC’s Nick Carter expects uranium’s ‘gradual upward movement’
Nicolas Carter is an executive vice-president of uranium at UxC LLC, one of the nuclear industry’s market research and analysis companies. Carter has 21 years of nuclear industry experience. He…