US delays Canada, Mexico tariffs
President Donald Trump paused across-the-board tariffs on Canada and Mexico until next month, but Canadian leaders vowed to maintain retaliatory measures until the threats vanish. While signing executive orders in…
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Lithium Americas nets $250M from Orion for Thacker
Lithium Americas (TSX: LAC; NYSE: LAC) says Orion Resource Partners is investing $250 million (C$357 million) to help develop and build the Thacker Pass lithium project’s first stage in Nevada….
Teck invests $40M to restart Bunker Hill in Idaho
Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A/TECK.B, NYSE: TECK) says it’s investing $40 million (C$57 million) in Bunker Hill Mining (TSXV: BNKR, US-OTC: BHLL) as part of a strategy to improve efficiency at…
Spotlight: Global battery metals
Battery metals are crucial in the world economy today and their importance will only grow over time as the climate warms and greener energy comes to the fore. Here are…
Rio Tinto creates lithium unit after completing $6.7B Arcadium deal
Rio Tinto (ASX, LSE, NYSE: RIO) has officially completed its $6.7-billion (C$9.57-billion) acquisition of Arcadium Lithium (ASX: LTM; NYSE: ALTM), which will become Rio Tinto Lithium. The newly formed unit…
Interview: Wilkinson mulls more tax credits for juniors
Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources says he’s open to discussing ways to boost funding in junior mining stocks and that he’s concerned infrastructure financing will disappear under potential…
PDAC: Wilkinson presses critical minerals case; auto sector exempted from tariffs for a month
Canada’s energy and natural resources minister said the Trump administration must realize it could soon face taxed critical mineral exports from its northern neighbour in response to tariffs that began…
Canada shoots back with tariffs on US
Canada has retaliated with $30 billion worth of duties against the United States after it imposed sweeping 25% tariffs on the vast majority of Canadian goods and 10% on energy…
Video: China fuels EV battery boom as per-unit capacity nears peak, Adamas says
Electric vehicle battery capacity could hit a record one terawatt-hour this year, according to Frik Els, a battery metals expert at Adamas Intelligence. Analysts expect China to use 60% of…
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…
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…