BHP invests in Gates and Friedland-backed firm I-ROX SAS
BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) has joined billionaire Robert Friedland’s I-Pulse Inc. and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a clean-tech venture backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, to speed…
Technology & innovation
Ontario-focused Frontier Lithium aspires to become Canada’s ‘lithium champion’
With a project focused on one of the hottest commodities tied to mass adoption of EVs, Frontier Lithium (TSXV: FL; US-OTC: LITOF) is working towards completing a resource update and…
Cameco reports Q3 uranium contracting gains, touts scooping Russian market share
Canadian uranium major Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) has narrowed its September-quarter loss, citing building momentum in long-term contracting by power utilities amid concern about global energy security and the…
Paladin Energy adds more offtake orders ahead of Langer Heinrich restart
Paladin Energy (ASX: PDN) has added another four provisional offtake agreements to its order book as it prepares to restart the Langer Heinrich uranium mine in Namibia by the first…
Los Andes Copper on track to deliver Vizcachitas prefeasibility by year-end, says CEO
Los Andes Copper (TSXV: LA; US-OTCQX) is eager to restart drilling at the flagship Vizcachitas porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit in Chile while it works in parallel to publish a pre-feasibility study…
Rogers launches Technology Centre of Excellence at NORCAT to focus on the future of smart mining
Rogers Communications and to NORCAT have announced a five-year strategic relationship to accelerate technology adoption in the global mining industry. Through this collaboration, Rogers will establish the Rogers Technology Centre…
Cameco and Brookfield Renewable agree to US$7.9B Westinghouse nuclear services buy
Canada’s largest uranium producer Cameco (TSX: CCO) has announced a significant expansion into the nuclear services sector after agreeing to buy U.S.-based Westinghouse Electric with Brookfield Renewable Partners (NYSE: BEP)…
GMS: Proactive Quebec government makes for a top-tier mining investment destination
The Quebec government has put in place specialized units to help mineral explorers, and mine developers navigate the province’s regulatory system from the discovery stage through production and closure, The…
GMS: Aurora Hydrogen aims for low-cost distributed hydrogen market gap, says Dr. Erin Bobicki
Canada is a global hydrogen leader, yet there is ample potential to reduce, or even eliminate, the lightest element’s carbon emissions-heavy current production methods, says Dr. Erin Bobicki, a minerals…
GM invests in Canadian lithium-ion battery recycler
General Motors is boosting efforts to secure lithium supplies, a crucial ingredient for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, by investing in Canadian battery recycling company Lithion Recycling Inc. The move creates…
Beaver Creek: Miners should hedge future carbon offset costs
As the energy revolution gathers momentum, so too intensifies the pressure from the investment community on miners to create net-zero emissions operations that produce sustainable upstream products feeding the new…
AngloGold earmarks US$143M to convert Brazil tailings to dry-stack
AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU; ASX: AGG; JSE: ANG) has earmarked US$143 million to finish migrating its upstream mine waste storage facilities in Brazil, where two major tailings tragedies occurred in…