From the Archives: The Origins of Agnico Eagle Mines
Agnico Eagle Mines is today Canada’s top miner by market capitalization. But its prominence today comes after a decades-long journey of challenges and successes, and a shift in focus from…
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Spotlight: Four more companies advancing projects around the world
Junior exploration companies across the globe stand or fall on drill programs that could turn them into bigger stories. Here are four more juniors with company-making discovery potential in proven mineral districts….
Perpetua makes tungsten discovery in Idaho
Perpetua Resources (TSX, Nasdaq: PPTA) said Thursday it has identified gold and antimony exploration targets with the potential for extensions of the permitted pits within its Stibnite project in Idaho,…
Lupaka Gold lands $49M from Peru to settle dispute
Peru has paid most of arbitration award, clearing the way for the first contingent value rights distribution.
Top 10 global miners: Zijin’s expansion pays off
Zijin Mining’s (SSE: 601899; SEHK: 2899) expansion strategy paid dividends as the Chinese miner topped global peers located outside North America and Australia for market capitalization. Attributable net income for 2025 jumped 62% to a…
DRC probes how uranium ‘leaked’ into cobalt exports
The Democratic Republic of Congo is investigating uranium contamination in cobalt exports after researchers estimated that thousands of tonnes of the radioactive metal probably left the world’s largest cobalt-producing nation…
Equinox approves $436M Valentine expansion
Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX) (NYSE: EQX) has approved a $436-million expansion of its Valentine gold mine in central Newfoundland, Canada, which will lift planned production as the company pursues growth following…
Top 10: BHP leads heavyweights Down Under
BHP Group (ASX, LSE, NYSE: BHP) leads Australia’s biggest listed mining and metals companies by market value, while Rio Tinto (ASX, LSE, NYSE: RIO) posted the strongest fiscal 2025 profit. BHP was worth…
Inferred tonnes drive rare earth growth in Avalon update
An updated resource estimate for Avalon Advanced Materials’ (TSX: AVL; US-OTC: AVLNF) Basal zone at its Nechalacho rare earths project in the Northwest Territories raises the global contained resource by 42%, as…
Florence must triple output to hit Trekor target: CEO
Trekor Metals (TSX, LSE: TKO; NYSE-A: TGB) insists production at its Florence copper mine in Arizona will accelerate threefold in the second half to allow the operation to meet a…
Luca sees resource growth potential at Campo Morado
New drilling by Luca Mining (TSXV: LUCA; US-OTC: LUCMF) at its Campo Morado polymetallic mine in Mexico’s Guerrero State hints at the possibility of increasing near-mine resources and extending mine life….
Bigger plants drive Australia’s next gold gains
Australian gold output is set to rise as producers expand existing mines before a new set of projects starts later this decade, Melbourne-based mining consultants Surbiton Associates says. The country…