SQM buys 30% stake in Australia’s Pirra Lithium
Chilean lithium giant SQM (NYSE: SQM) has agreed to buy a 30% interest in Australia’s Pirra Lithium, a junior launched in March from the combination of certain exploration assets in…
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Equinox nears Greenstone’s golden finish line
Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX; NYSE: EQX) is in the final stages of completing its $1.2-billion Greenstone mine build in northern Ontario, which is slated to pour first gold under budget…
IsoEnergy closes $36.6M private placement for uranium hunt
IsoEnergy (TSXV: ISO; US-OTC: ISENF) has closed its previously announced private placement raising $36.6 million to continue its hunt for economic uranium deposits. The company issued about 8.1 million subscription…
Video: Don Lindsay on Glencore’s pursuit of Teck and resource nationalism
Former Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A/TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) CEO Don Lindsay joined The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium in London, U.K., Oct. 12-13 to speak to Adrian Pocobelli, host of TNM’s…
Brazilian court rules in favour of Brazil Potash’s Autazes project
Brazil’s Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region ruled in favour of Canadian miner Brazil Potash’s Autazes project in the Amazon on Tuesday. Federal Judge Marcos Augusto de Souza suspended a lower…
Codelco makes first foray into lithium with US$245M deal for Aussie developer
Chilean state-owned copper miner Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, has reached a deal with Lithium Power International (ASX: LPI) to buy the Australian producer of the battery metal for…
Teck faces $11M fine for alleged breach of enviro permit in Chile
Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A | TECK.B; NYSE: TECK), Canada’s largest diversified miner, is facing two charges from Chile’s environmental regulator SMA for alleged breaches of its permit at the Carmen…
Explorers in Colombia keep spending amid Petro government’s leftist rhetoric
More than a year after Colombia’s leftist president Gustavo Petro took power, investment by public companies is rising along with their exploration activity, despite initial concerns the government would restrict…
CMS: Catherine McLeod-Seltzer blazes a trail from the board room to the drill bit
Among the few women in mining, especially during her early years, Catherine McLeod-Seltzer often found herself in rooms full of grey-haired men named John. Yet, she has shattered glass ceilings in the industry, leaving an indelible mark on the global mining landscape.
As the independent chair of Kinross Gold (TSX: K, NYSE: KGC), one of the world’s gold majors, her story recounts perseverance, vision, and a passion for geology and exploration, The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium heard Friday in London. Instead of seeing it as a hurdle, she turned it into an opportunity to be heard.
South America Snapshot: Eight companies hunting for critical and precious metals
South America is endowed with geology steeped in precious, base and battery metals, and the continent has had a storied mining history. Below we showcase eight companies active in the…
CMS: Bring new openness to innovation, diversity, future-of-mining panel says
The future of the industry depends less on creating everything anew and more on using what is already known in new ways, mining leaders said on Thursday in London. Innovation…
CMS: Frank Giustra sees gold juniors like ‘a kid in a candy store’
Western investors have been “asleep at the wheel” with seizing on investments in the exploration and junior gold sector, entrepreneur and philanthropist Frank Giustra told The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining…