Iamgold defers Côté expansion, studies bigger build
Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) has deferred a planned expansion of Côté Gold while it studies a much larger build that could nearly double the Ontario mine’s processing rate to…
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US unveils $2B of financing commitments for mining
United States President Donald Trump on Friday announced more than $2 billion (C$2.8 billion) in financing pledges for critical minerals and other mining projects that he says will help the…
B2Gold wins Mali permit after guidance cut
B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-A: BTG) won a key permit Friday for its Fekola Regional gold expansion project in Mali, removing a growth hurdle a day after it cut its 2026…
NGEx to spin out South American exploration company
NGEx Minerals (TSX: NGEX; US-OTC: NGXXF) plans to spin out its Valle Ancho copper-gold project into a new company – a move that will let the Canadian developer concentrate on…
Ranked: Mid-summer capital raisings
During the period from June 17 to July 15, 2026, the three largest mining financings and credit-facility transactions totalled approximately C$2.1 billion. Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) led the period…
From the Archives: The Origins of Agnico Eagle Mines
Agnico Eagle Mines is today Canada’s top miner by market capitalization. But its prominence today comes after a decades-long journey of challenges and successes, and a shift in focus from…
Spotlight: Four more companies advancing projects around the world
Junior exploration companies across the globe stand or fall on drill programs that could turn them into bigger stories. Here are four more juniors with company-making discovery potential in proven mineral districts….
Perpetua makes tungsten discovery in Idaho
Perpetua Resources (TSX, Nasdaq: PPTA) said Thursday it has identified gold and antimony exploration targets with the potential for extensions of the permitted pits within its Stibnite project in Idaho,…
Lupaka Gold lands $49M from Peru to settle dispute
Peru has paid most of arbitration award, clearing the way for the first contingent value rights distribution.
Top 10 global miners: Zijin’s expansion pays off
Zijin Mining’s (SSE: 601899; SEHK: 2899) expansion strategy paid dividends as the Chinese miner topped global peers located outside North America and Australia for market capitalization. Attributable net income for 2025 jumped 62% to a…
DRC probes how uranium ‘leaked’ into cobalt exports
The Democratic Republic of Congo is investigating uranium contamination in cobalt exports after researchers estimated that thousands of tonnes of the radioactive metal probably left the world’s largest cobalt-producing nation…
Equinox approves $436M Valentine expansion
Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX) (NYSE: EQX) has approved a $436-million expansion of its Valentine gold mine in central Newfoundland, Canada, which will lift planned production as the company pursues growth following…
Top 10: BHP leads heavyweights Down Under
BHP Group (ASX, LSE, NYSE: BHP) leads Australia’s biggest listed mining and metals companies by market value, while Rio Tinto (ASX, LSE, NYSE: RIO) posted the strongest fiscal 2025 profit. BHP was worth…
Inferred tonnes drive rare earth growth in Avalon update
An updated resource estimate for Avalon Advanced Materials’ (TSX: AVL; US-OTC: AVLNF) Basal zone at its Nechalacho rare earths project in the Northwest Territories raises the global contained resource by 42%, as…
Florence must triple output to hit Trekor target: CEO
Trekor Metals (TSX, LSE: TKO; NYSE-A: TGB) insists production at its Florence copper mine in Arizona will accelerate threefold in the second half to allow the operation to meet a…
The Northern Miner Podcast
Podcast: Is the West’s mining strategy working? Rebecca Seidl-Inglesby on policy and supply chains
Podcast: Mackey warns of ‘darker future’ unless Canada accelerates minerals processing
Podcast: South32’s Pat Risner on FAST-41, social licence and mining in the USA
Podcast: Greenland rare earths project in limbo amid government dispute, ft Daniel Mamadou
Opinion/Commentary
Global Mining Symposium
London Symposium: Ontario’s focus on fast-track, refining wins industry praise
Ontario’s push to OK major projects in less than two years and keep more mineral processing at home stunned industry heavyweights at The Northern Miner’s International Metals Symposium in London. “We’re moving with speed,” provincial Energy and Mines Minister Stephen Lecce…
London Symposium video: Rick Rule on gold
The surging gold price over the past two years marks a catch-up based on a bull market going back to 2000 that few recognized then, veteran investor Rick Rule says…
London Symposium video: Gold has room to run
The sustained gold price could attract a new wave of retail investors including cryptocurrency backers and technology stock holders, gold company executives say in a new video. Bullion touched a…