PDAC: Seafloor mining balances pros and cons
Commercial production of undersea mining could become a reality in less than five years, but at a potentially high cost to seafloor ecosystems, panellists told the Prospectors & Developers Association…
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PDAC: Ontario’s Ford backs miners, bashes tariffs
Ontario Premier Doug Ford repeated funding pledges for mining, scolded the federal government for time-consuming environmental OKs and vowed to fight potential U.S. tariffs on Tuesday dollar for dollar and…
PDAC: Insurance motive to keep pushing up gold prices
Insurance from currency devaluation is the main reason countries such as China are buying gold, driving up its price, panellists told the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference. The…
PDAC: Canada, Australia risk falling behind in investment race, BHP boss says
Canada and Australia could end up trailing emerging mining nations such as Argentina if their governments don’t speed up permitting and lower costs, BHP (NYSE, LSE, ASX: BHP) CEO Mike…
PDAC: Gold, copper prices can only rise, analysts say
Copper and gold prices are poised to soar over the next decade as usage continues to climb, the world’s largest mining conference heard. After modest copper surpluses this year and…
PDAC: How size, location affect investor picks
Big discoveries trump jurisdictional issues but sometimes case by case analysis turns that on its head, Scotiabank’s mining and metals investment team leader told a session at the Prospectors &…
Trump, Zelenskyy nix minerals deal
United States President Donald Trump and his Ukraine counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy cancelled a mineral rights and security agreement at the White House on Friday after a news conference degenerated into…
Copper tariffs to hit consumers: ex-Codelco CEO
Potential U.S. tariffs on copper will only serve to drive up prices for consumers because domestic producers won’t be able to make up the shortfall, the former CEO of Chilean…
Editorial: Still drilling after all these years
The Northern Miner turns 110 this March and is looking pretty good for its age. Much better, for example, than cobalt, which is also the name of the Ontario town…
Q&A: The Metals Co. plunges into the deep
You may have heard of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean. It’s a stretch of area from Hawaii to Mexico, which has been targeted by the deep-sea mining sector….
Sibanye dumps $490M lithium investment
South African precious metals miner Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE: SSW; NYSE: SBSW) has scrapped its planned investment in the Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron project in Nevada due in part to weak prices for…
What a shock: the power cost of ore processing
When it comes to understanding processing costs, electric power is an item that can have a substantial impact on operating expenses. Costmine, a division of Mining Intelligence owned by Glacier…