A tribute to The Northern Miner’s Joe Crofts
On Tuesday, February 8, our colleague and our friend Joe Crofts, passed on. He was surrounded by his family at the time. Joe had been fighting cancer valiantly since being…
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Britishvolt secures US$54M from Glencore for UK gigafactory
Electric vehicle (EV) battery start-up Britishvolt, which has the ambitious plan to build a recycling gigafactory in the U.K., has secured a £40 million (US$54 million) cornerstone investment from partner…
American Pacific Mining rides high on third round of Madison drilling
Despite coming off recent highs, the Toronto-quoted shares in copper explorer American Pacific Mining (CSE: USGD; US-OTCQB: USGDF) continue to trade nearly 520% higher over the 12-month frame following a…
Probe Metals raises $20.8M for Canadian exploration
Probe Metals (TSXV: PRB; US-OTC: PROBF) is raising $20.8 million for exploration on its Canadian gold projects by issuing approximately 6.7 million flow-though shares at $3.10 each. The shares will…
Iamgold appoints activist investor’s nominees to board
Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) has appointed three independent directors to its board after reaching an agreement with Resource Capital Fund VII, managed by a U.S. investment fund that launched…
Understanding Africa’s coup epidemic
In the last eighteen months there have been six coups in five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa — Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Mali and Sudan. To get a grasp of what’s…
US markets fall during the Feb. 7-11 trading week
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 353.07 points or 1.01% to 34,738.06 and the S&P 500 fell 65.23 points or 1.47% to 4,418.64. Spot gold climbed US$17.60 per oz. or…
TSX Venture rises during the Feb. 7-11 trading week
The S&P/TSX Venture Exchange rose 10.12 points or 1.16% to 868.77. Spot gold climbed US$17.60 per oz. or 0.96% to US$1,831.15 per ounce. Latin Metals climbed 42.9% to 15¢. On…
TSX rises during the Feb. 7-11 trading week
The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 313.34 points or 1.45% to 21,548.84 during the Feb. 7-11 trading week. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index increased 4.40 points or 3.89% to 113.09 and…
New training program aims to tackle labour shortage, break barriers in mining sector
In a bid to tackle labour shortages in the mining industry, an educational institute in northern Ontario is starting a training program that will aim to attract young people, women,…
Lithium: Spot prices soar in lunar new year
Lithium spot prices in Chinese markets showed substantial gains in the first week after the lunar new year holidays in East Asia, mainly driven by sustained supply tightness in spot…
High yields of rare earth elements recovered from mine, e-waste
A chemistry lab at Rice University has successfully extracted valuable rare earth elements from waste at yields high enough to resolve issues for manufacturers while boosting their profits. In a…