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…
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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…
Freeman Gold shares rise on initial PEA for Lemhi project in Idaho
Shares in Idaho-focused junior explorer Freeman Gold (TSXV: FMAN; US-OTC: FMANF) rose as high as 11.5% Monday following the release of an initial preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on its Lemhi…
New resource bolsters Arizona Sonoran’s Cactus copper project
Arizona Sonoran Copper (TSX: ASCU) has nearly tripled its measured and indicated resource at the Cactus porphyry project on the site of the past-producing Sacaton mine south of Phoenix. Cactus…
CMS: Friedland mocks lithium but touts battery tech
Robert Friedland, billionaire founder and executive co-chair of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN), criticized lithium mining at a London conference, ridiculed the West’s green energy transition and urged prayer to end the…
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.
Orion invests US$17M into South Dakota-focused gold explorer
Dakota Gold (NYSE: DC) has formed a strategic partnership with Orion Mine Finance that would see the U.S.-listed gold explorer receive an equity investment of US$17 million ($23.2 million), plus…
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…
X-Batt and Consol collaborate on coal-based battery tech
Battery material innovator X-Batt has partnered with Consol Innovations, an offshoot of Consol Energy (NASDAQ: CEIX), to fast-track their coal-based anode technology.
The two companies announced Tuesday their C-Batt Innovations joint venture, formed to push forward the development of battery materials sourced from coal.