NGEx to spin out South American exploration company
NGEx Minerals (TSX: NGEX; US-OTC: NGXXF) plans to spin out its Valle Ancho copper-gold project into a new company – a move that will let the Canadian developer concentrate on…
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Ranked: Mid-summer capital raisings
During the period from June 17 to July 15, 2026, the three largest mining financings and credit-facility transactions totalled approximately C$2.1 billion. Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) led the period…
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…
Codelco’s El Teniente setback deepens copper fears
Codelco’s decision to suspend development of the Andes Norte section at its flagship El Teniente mine could last as long as two years, according to a union leader, compounding production…
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…
TNM Drill Down: AbraSilver’s Diablillos tops silver assays for June-July
The Northern Miner has compiled the top 10 drill results for silver for the June 17-July 15 period. Drill holes are ranked by grade x width. Latin America topped all other regions,…
TNM Drill Down: Radisson in Quebec tops gold assays for June-July
The Northern Miner has compiled the top 10 drill assays for the June 17-July 15 period for gold. Drill holes are ranked by grade x width. Drilling across the Americas –…
Dirty gold overtakes cocaine as crime’s cash machine
Criminal groups continue to shift from cocaine to illegal mining as banks and governments scramble to close financial loopholes.
Editorial: Industrial power returns
For much of the past three decades, mining executives struggled to convince governments that minerals were strategic assets. They no longer have to make that case because the world has made it…
Gangs hijack Ecuador’s gold mining supply chain
Ecuador has elevated illegal mining to a national security threat after concluding that criminal gangs have infiltrated the country’s gold supply chain, from extraction to export, turning the sector into…
Opinion: Seeing the district for the deposit
But sometimes they form clusters or groups of deposits. It’s these types of places where the geology is so fertile that one discovery is not the end of the story but the beginning…