Teck advances QB2 copper project in Chile
If all goes according to plan in northern Chile, Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) and its partners Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo will start commissioning and ramping up their…
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RNC expands Beta Hunt with resource update
Infill and exploration drilling in the Western Flanks Zone of the Beta Hunt gold mine in Western Australia has boosted measured and indicated resources fivefold and inferred resources threefold, RNC Minerals (TSX:…
Marathon Gold ‘prime takeout candidate’: National Bank of Canada analyst
Marathon Gold (TSX: MOZ) is on track to release a new resource estimate in September for its Leprechaun deposit in the company’s Valentine Gold camp in Newfoundland and Labrador. The…
Condor Gold attracts new investment in Nicaragua
Nicaragua Milling is taking a 10.4% stake in Condor Gold (TSX: COG; LON: CNR), which is advancing its La India gold project in Nicaragua. The privately held milling company has…
Top-10 diamond companies in Canada
The Northern Miner has compiled a list of the top-10 diamond companies with headquarters in Canada, ordered by market capitalization, as of early July 2019. 1. Lucara Diamond Market cap:…
Scrapbook: Diamonds in Canada Symposium 2019
In June The Northern Miner and its sister publication, Diamonds in Canada, hosted the second annual Diamonds in Canada Symposium at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto. The event brings…
Development Snapshot: Eight juniors looking to supply the electric vehicle revolution
While the prices for key battery minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, rare earth elements, graphite and copper have so far been subdued in 2019, the general excitement about the…
Diamond exploration pioneer Chris Jennings sees past market gloom
When the Diavik diamond mine began production in 2004, there were likely more than a few miners that experienced deep pangs of regret, remembering that they could have had a…
Top-10 Canadian miners by market cap
The Northern Miner presents the top-10, Canada-headquartered mining companies by market capitalization, as of early July 2019. 1. Nutrien Market cap: $41.8 billion Nutrien (TSX: NTR; NYSE: NTR) is the…
Diamcor nears production announcement
Diamcor Mining’s (TSXV: DMI) Krone-Endora project isn’t a typical diamond development story. The project, next to De Beers’ Venetia mine in South Africa, is an eluvial deposit, representing a direct…
Q&A with De Beers’ Mpumi Zikalala
In February, De Beers announced it was consolidating its assets in South Africa and Canada into one entity called De Beers Group Managed Operations. At the same time, Nompumelelo (Mpumi)…
Generation options Sibanye-Stillwater’s Marathon
Financier Jamie Levy and mine builder Kerry Knoll have kept busy since selling Pine Point Mining and its zinc project in the Northwest Territories last year to Osisko Metals (TSXV:…