CMS: How to fix ‘everyone needs us but no one likes us’
The industry must confront its dark past of disasters to attract new investors and offer project stakes to local towns to improve environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Those were…
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Video: Mining innovation must redeploy tech like Lego
The industry needs to apply existing technology in new ways like using the blocks of a Lego kit to build several solutions, panellists at The Northern Miner‘s Canadian Mining Symposium…
Sibanye-Stillwater shake-up puts more than 4,000 jobs at risk
Precious metals producer Sibanye-Stillwater (NYSE: SBSW; JSE: SSW) said a planned restructuring could see it shut down four loss-making platinum group metal (PGM) mines in South Africa, resulting in the…
NextSource Materials ships first graphite from Molo mine in Madagascar
NextSource Materials (TSX: NEXT; US-OTC: NSRCF) announced Monday it has made its first bulk container shipment of SuperFlake graphite from the company’s Molo mine in Madagascar. This first shipment has…
De Beers output drops amid Venetia mine transition
De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer by value, saw production fall 23% to 7.4 million carats in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 as a result of planned slow-down…
Video: TMX panel discusses hard ESG issues
Mining companies face difficult decisions about environmental, social and governance issues to attract new investors, according to a panel sponsored by The TMX Group at The Northern Miner’s Canadian Symposium…
Petra Diamonds says supply curbs, India’s moratorium stabilizing market
Petra Diamonds (LSE: PDL) said on Tuesday that operations at its Cullinan and Finsch mines in South Africa, and the resumption of production at the Williamson mine in Tanzania, led…
Atlantic Lithium gets go-ahead for Ghana’s first battery metal mine
Atlantic Lithium (ASX: A11) has the green light to develop Ghana’s first lithium operation after its local subsidiary received a mining permit for its flagship Ewoyaa project. The 15-year permit…
Ionic wins licence to mine rare earths in Uganda
Australia’s Ionic Rare Earths (ASX: IXR) on Friday secured a large-scale mining licence for its the Makuutu heavy rare earths project in Uganda. The permit was granted by the Ugandan Directorate…
Royal Road pivots to Morocco with Saudi-backed copper-gold exploration
Royal Road Minerals (TSXV: RYR), a Jersey-based explorer with projects in South America, is expanding to a copper-gold project in Morocco with an option to purchase Izughar Resources for nearly…
Winshear Gold moves on from Tanzania project, takes US$30M settlement
Canadian gold explorer Winshear Gold (TSXV: WINS) has ended a longstanding dispute with the Tanzanian government in regards to the company’s licences for the SMP project. On Monday, the parties…
Egyptian tycoon eyes stake in Barrick’s Reko Diq project
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, the northern African country’s second-wealthiest person, is said to be seeking a stake in the US$7 billion Reko Diq copper-gold project, jointly owned by Barrick Gold…