Cost-overruns sink shares of Nemaska Lithium
Eight months after the start of construction of its Whabouchi lithium project in Quebec, Nemaska Lithium (TSX: NMX; US-OTC: NMKEF) says it will cost another $375 million to complete the…
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Kinross Gold posts $23.6M loss for 2018
Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) produced 2.45 million gold-equivalent ounces last year with record production from its Paracatu mine in Brazil and its Bald Mountain mine in Nevada, and…
Bolivia’s door creaks open to foreign mining investment
SANTIAGO, CHILE — A first-of-its kind deal between Bolivia’s state mining company Comibol and Vancouver-based explorer New Pacific Metals (TSXV: NUAG; US-OTC: NUPMF) promises to usher in a new period of…
Silvercrest finds high-grade vein at Las Chispas
Silvercrest Metals (TSXV: SIL; NYSE: SILV) has discovered the Babi Sur silver-gold vein on its Las Chispas property in Sonora, Mexico, through recent drilling. The company intersected high-grade silver and…
United States Snapshot: Ten companies with projects on the go in the USA
Mining and mineral exploration in the U.S. has been on an uptick in recent years, thanks to higher gold and silver prices, and an easing in some regulatory burdens. Here’s…
Ascendant doubles resource of Lagoa Salgada in Portugal
Ascendant Resources (TSX: ASND; US-OTC: ASDRF) has nearly doubled the number of tonnes at both its North and South deposits, part of the Lagoa Salgada polymetallic project in Portugal’s Iberian…
Facts ‘n’ figures: Central banks buoyed gold demand in 2018
The following is an edited summary from the World Gold Council, based on its Gold Demand Trends Full Year and Q4 2018 report. To access the full report, visit www.gold.org. Global gold demand…
Commentary: Mining in the digital age
Early traditional miners would have never believed that the industry tools of choice would one day shift from shovels and pickaxes to automation and artificial intelligence. Mining companies are now…
BMO: Silvercrest Metals an attractive takeover candidate
Silvercrest Metals (TSXV: SIL) expects to update the resource estimate and complete a preliminary economic assessment in the first quarter of the year on its Las Chispas silver project in…
Continental Gold expands resource at Buritica
Continental Gold (TSX: CNL; US-OTC: CGOOF) has tabled an increased resource estimate for its Buritica gold development project in northwestern Colombia that also reinterprets the way the company sees its…
First Cobalt extends mineralization at Iron Creek in Idaho
First Cobalt (TXSV: FCC; US-OTC: FTSSF) has extended copper-cobalt mineralization along strike at both its Waite zone and No Name zone, part of its Iron Creek cobalt project in Idaho….
Editorial: Iron ore prices surge higher on Vale disaster
All of those supply and demand, and price forecasts carefully assembled in late 2018 for iron ore have become obsolete in the wake of Vale’s devastating Corrego do Feijao tailings…