Copper price run signals supply squeeze: Sprott
Copper’s roughly 50% surge over the past year is increasingly looking less like a traditional commodities cycle and more like a structural squeeze as mine shortages collide with rising demand…
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Salares Norte lifts Gold Fields as other mines falter
Gold Fields (JSE, NYSE: GFI) is leaning on its newest operating mine, Salares Norte in northern Chile, to offset weaker expected production at Gruyere in Australia and Tarkwa in Ghana…
Barrick names Bock to lead overseas arm
Barrick Mining (NYSE: B; TSX: ABX) has named Sebastiaan Bock to lead its international gold and copper business as the miner prepares to split its North American and overseas assets….
Lake Victoria’s Tembo holds 600K oz. gold near Barrick
An initial resource for Lake Victoria Gold’s (TSXV: LVG) Tembo project in Tanzania shows the deposit contains almost 600,000 oz. gold next to Barrick Mining’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: B) Bulyanhulu…
Cave-in kills 14 illegal miners in South Africa
Fourteen illegal chrome miners died after a mine caved in near Marikana in South Africa’s North West province, while authorities said others may remain trapped, The Daily Maverick reported. Police estimate…
Fortuna buys Barrick, Iamgold project for $200M
Fortuna Mining (NYSE: FSM; TSX: FVI) is buying the Bambadji gold project in Senegal for $200 million (C$279 million) from Barrick Mining (NYSE: B; TSX: ABX) and Iamgold (TSX: IMG;…
Barrick, Newmont settle dispute with $1.9B deal
Nevada settlement clears a hurdle for Barrick’s North American IPO as rising costs and leadership scrutiny weigh on the miner.
US unveils $2B of financing commitments for mining
United States President Donald Trump on Friday announced more than $2 billion (C$2.8 billion) in financing pledges for critical minerals and other mining projects that he says will help the…
B2Gold wins Mali permit after guidance cut
B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-A: BTG) won a key permit Friday for its Fekola Regional gold expansion project in Mali, removing a growth hurdle a day after it cut its 2026…
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…
TNM Drill Down: Valeriano tops copper assays
The Northern Miner has compiled the top 10 copper drill results reported from June 17 to July 15. Drill holes are ranked by interval width multiplied by copper grade, following…