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…
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…
TNM Drill Down: Snowline’s Rogue delivers best assays of the week
Our TNM Drill Down features highlights of the top gold assays of the past week (Oct. 13-20). Drill holes are ranked by gold grade x width, as identified by data…
Video: Frank Giustra talks junior exploration and macro money matters
Frank Giustra stands out in a fast-evolving world where many chase the allure of tech stocks and cryptocurrency. The seasoned entrepreneur, philanthropist, and CEO of Fiore Group sounded the alarm…
Video: Garofalo lauds court for knocking feds
Gold Royalty (NYSE: GROY) CEO David Garofalo joined the second day of The Northern Miner‘s Canadian Mining Symposium Oct. 12-13 in London. Garofalo, who is also co-chair of GoldMining (TSX: GOLD; NYSE: GLDG),…
Why junior explorers will emerge from the dust
No doubt 2023 has been a difficult year for the junior mining sector. Across the board we’ve seen small-cap explorers sell-down toward multi-year lows. A decade of underinvestment in new…
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…
Asteroid mining startup to launch mission in early 2024
AstroForge, a U.S.-based startup with plans to mine asteroids, is fine-tuning details for the launch of a spacecraft in the first quarter of next year, which would make it the…
Video: Robert Friedland warns we’re ‘on the verge of destroying ourselves as a species’
Robert Friedland arrived fresh off a flight from Mongolia just in time to be the last keynote speaker of The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium in London, U.K., Oct. 12-13. …
Newmont starts ramp-up at Peñasquito as strike ends
Newmont (TSX: NGT; NYSE: NEM), the world’s largest gold producer, has begun restarting operations at its Peñasquito mine in Mexico, after reaching a definitive agreement with striking workers last week….
US DOI draft study poses further setback for Alaska’s Ambler road project
The proposed 211-mile transportation corridor for accessing untouched mineral deposits in northwestern Alaska, also known as the Ambler road project, will likely cause harm to wildlife and disruptions to local…